17.8% ▼ -24.2%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cooktown · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cooktown
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than double the national rate of former service members live in Cooktown, where 5.0% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This community also shows a strong spirit of giving, with a much higher proportion of people volunteering than in the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.8% of people giving their time. This is well above both the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than in most areas. Only 9.0% of people provide unpaid care, and the 21.0% who care for children unpaid is well below the national figure of 26.3%.
9.0% ▲ +3.0%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.0% ▼ -18.7%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 21.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.7% ▼ -23.7%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 19.7%
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.
The proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is 5.0%, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the national rate of 2.8%.
5.0%
Higher than 81% 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 Cooktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30675/cooktown/topic/community