19.4% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cobar Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cobar Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking 29% of people provide unpaid care in Cobar Park, a rate far above the national figure. This sparsely populated area shows a strong lean toward community support, with high rates of volunteering and caregiving despite very few residents with a history of defence service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.4% of people pitching in. This is well above both the New South Wales figure of 13% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is very common at 29%, which is far above the national figure of 11.9%. While 25.8% of people care for children unpaid, which is about the same as the state, only 9.7% do 15 or more hours of housework—a rate far below the national average.
29.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.8% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.3%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
9.7% —
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 9.7%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force. This is a little below the New South Wales and Australian figures, which sit at 2.3% and 2.8% respectively.
0.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 Cobar Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10949/cobar-park/topic/community