12.7% ▼ -36.5%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.9%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Beaudesert · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Beaudesert
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A smaller proportion of people in Beaudesert volunteer compared to the state and national figures. While 12.7% of residents give their time to volunteer work, this is much lower than most similar areas. This reflects a sharp decline from 2011, when nearly 20% of the community volunteered.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.7% of people volunteer here, which is a little below the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%. This represents a 7.3 percentage point drop since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
People providing unpaid care are more common here than in most areas, at 14.1%, which is a little above the national figure. Meanwhile, those caring for children unpaid (23.8%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (21.1%) both saw a decline since 2011.
14.1% ▲ +22.5%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.8% ▼ -8.9%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.1% ▼ -19.8%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 21.1%
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.
About 3.5% of the population served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as the 3.9% recorded for Queensland and the 2.8% national average.
3.5%
Lower than 52% 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 Beaudesert [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314003/beaudesert/topic/community