10.5% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coomboona · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coomboona
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 12.3% of people in Coomboona provide unpaid care, a figure that sits around the middle for similar areas. This reflects a community where volunteering and childcare roles are notably less common than in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower than in most areas, with only 10.5% of residents pitching in. This is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Very few residents provide unpaid childcare at 14.9%, which is far below the 26.3% seen across Victoria and Australia. Similarly, the 18.4% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework is much lower than in most other areas.
12.3% —
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.9% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.4% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 18.4%
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 lower than most areas and a little below the 2.8% national average.
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 Coomboona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20626/coomboona/topic/community