16.8% ▲ +7.0%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Copmanhurst · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Copmanhurst
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates have remained steady in Copmanhurst, where 16.8% of people give their time to help others. This is a community with a strong tradition of service, which is seen in the high number of former Defence Force members and people providing unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.8% of people here volunteer, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and a little above the national rate.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here; 16.1% of people provide unpaid care and 28.8% do over 15 hours of housework weekly, both well above state and national figures. However, the 20.1% who care for children unpaid is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
16.1% ▲ +11.3%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.1% ▼ -11.1%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.8% ▼ -5.6%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 28.8%
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.
A very high 8.4% of people in Copmanhurst have served in the Defence Force, a figure well above the 2.3% seen across New South Wales.
8.4%
Higher than 92% 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 Copmanhurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11060/copmanhurst/topic/community