19.9% ▼ -24.5%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 19.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Safety Beach · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Safety Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 30% of people in Safety Beach spend their time caring for children unpaid. This high level of family support defines the local community, though the proportion of residents volunteering for other causes has fallen since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people here volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. However, this rate has dropped by 6.5 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 30.8% of people caring for children—a figure well above the New South Wales average. This is alongside 14.3% of residents providing other types of unpaid care, which is higher than in most areas.
14.3% ▲ +10.6%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.8% ▲ +33.5%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.0% ▼ -17.0%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
Defence service
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 2.6%. This is much lower than most similar areas and about the same as the national figure.
2.6%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who have ever served in the Australian Defence Force (currently or previously).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Safety Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121100/safety-beach/topic/community