17.6% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 44.8%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cowleys Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cowleys Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of volunteering defines daily life in Cowleys Creek, where 17.6% of people give their time to help others. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%. While community service is common, other forms of unpaid home and care work are very rare here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
The rate of volunteering is 17.6%, which is well above both the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%. This puts the area around the middle of similar locations for its level of community involvement.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon in Cowleys Creek, with 0.0% of people providing unpaid care or doing more than 15 hours of housework. Only 8.8% of residents care for children unpaid, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
8.8% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia and the 2.0% recorded in Victoria.
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 Cowleys Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20658/cowleys-creek/topic/community