11.6% —
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coalbank · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coalbank
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Coalbank get involved in community roles compared to most similar areas. Just 11.6% of residents volunteer, which is a little below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most other areas, with only 11.6% of people pitching in, roughly 2.5 percentage points lower than the national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 25.6% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—well above the national figure of 20.7%—other forms of care are less common. Unpaid childcare (23.3%) and general unpaid care (9.3%) are both lower than in most similar areas.
9.3% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.3% —
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.6% —
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 25.6%
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.
There were no residents who served in the Defence Force in 2021, which is well below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
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 Coalbank [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30636/coalbank/topic/community