15.4% ▼ -50.5%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coopers Gully · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coopers Gully
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people spend their time on housework in Coopers Gully than in most similar areas. This is a community where 32.2% of residents do at least 15 hours of unpaid home work per week, a figure far above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.4% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the figures for both New South Wales and Australia, though this is lower than in most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is more common here than in most areas, with 14% of people helping out. Around 25.2% of the community care for children unpaid, which is about the same as the state average.
14.0% ▲ +24.2%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.2% ▼ -12.1%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 36.8%
- 2021: 25.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.2% ▼ -5.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 32.2%
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.
Serving in the Defence Force is much more common here than elsewhere, with 7.6% of people having served, a rate well above the national figure of 2.8%.
7.6%
Higher than 90% 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 Coopers Gully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11048/coopers-gully/topic/community