11.8% ▼ -35.1%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cooloola Cove · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cooloola Cove
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high proportion of veterans live in Cooloola Cove, where 7.5% of residents have served in the Defence Force. While the area has a strong history of military service, it sees much lower rates of unpaid childcare than the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.8% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here; 16.6% of people provide unpaid care and 29.5% do over 15 hours of housework weekly, both well above the national figures. However, those caring for children unpaid are among the lowest in the country at 11.3%, far below the 26.3% seen across Australia.
16.6% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
11.3% ▼ -48.0%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.5% ▼ -13.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 29.5%
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 rate of people who served in the Defence Force is 7.5%, which is among the highest for areas of this type and well above the 2.8% national average.
7.5%
Higher than 90% 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 Cooloola Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30684/cooloola-cove/topic/community