9.3% ▼ -36.7%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coomera · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coomera
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A third of people in Coomera spend their time caring for children without pay, making this a community focused heavily on family life. While child care is common, other forms of community service and volunteering are much less frequent here than in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.3% of residents volunteer, which is well below the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%. This rate is much lower than most other similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid childcare is very common here, with 33.3% of people doing so, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. Conversely, the proportion of people providing other unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework is a little below state and national levels.
9.4% ▲ +33.9%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.3% ▼ -16.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.0%
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.7% ▼ -15.1%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 18.7%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 2.1% of the population. This is lower than most areas and a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.1%
Lower than 59% 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 Coomera [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30688/coomera/topic/community