22.2% ▼ -23.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coonabarabran · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coonabarabran
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Coonabarabran volunteer, showing a strong local commitment to community activities. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This spirit of giving extends to other areas of unpaid support and service across the town.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 22.2% of people helping out, which is well above the New South Wales rate of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 20.3% of residents provide unpaid childcare—well below the national figure of 26.3%—the area has a higher rate of people providing other types of unpaid care at 14.2%. About 21.6% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
14.2% ▲ +5.3%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.3% ▼ -16.0%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.6% ▼ -20.0%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 21.6%
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 Coonabarabran than in most similar areas, with 3.4% of people having served in the Defence Force.
3.4%
Higher than 63% 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 Coonabarabran [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11043/coonabarabran/topic/community