25.8% ▼ -21.1%
Higher than 81% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 32.6%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coolamon · Council (LGA)
Community Participation in Coolamon
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Coolamon give their time to others than in most of Australia. About 25.8% of the community volunteer, which is far above the national figure. This strong spirit of helping extends into the home, where unpaid care and housework are much more common than elsewhere.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 25.8% of people helping out, though this is 6.9 percentage points lower than it was in 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is among the highest in the country at 15.0%. This is seen in the 27.5% of people caring for children and the 25.4% who do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both of which are well above the national figures.
15.0% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 95% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.5% ▼ -9.6%
Higher than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.4% ▼ -8.7%
Higher than 82% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 25.4%
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.
Service to the country is more common in Coolamon, where 4.3% of people have served in the Defence Force, a figure a little above the New South Wales average.
4.3%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) 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 Coolamon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA12000/coolamon/topic/community