16.4% ▼ -31.4%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cororooke · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cororooke
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement has remained steady in Cororooke, where a strong culture of unpaid care stands out. Around 17.1% of residents provide unpaid care, a figure much higher than most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 16.4% of people helping out. This is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very high in the area, with 30.5% of people caring for children and 28.3% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. Both figures are well above those for Victoria and Australia.
17.1% ▲ +92.2%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.5% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.3% ▼ -8.7%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 28.3%
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 here than in most areas, with 3.7% of people having served in the Defence Force.
3.7%
Higher than 67% 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 Cororooke [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20646/cororooke/topic/community