9.0% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cowper · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cowper
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people volunteer in Cowper than in most other Australian areas. While 15.4% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, this is well above the national figure of 11.9%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is low here, with only 9.0% of people pitching in. This is well below the New South Wales rate of 13.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children and housework are both much lower than in most areas, with 16.7% of people doing each. However, the overall rate of people providing unpaid care is 15.4%, which is well above the state and national averages.
15.4% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.7% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.7% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 16.7%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 0.0% of the population, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
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 Cowper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11098/cowper/topic/community