12.6% ▼ -31.6%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coopers Plains · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coopers Plains
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Just 12.6% of people volunteer in Coopers Plains, which is much lower than most similar areas. This local trend of lower participation extends across unpaid care and military service, with figures consistently sitting below state and national levels.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in other areas, with 12.6% of residents helping out, which is a little below the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas; only 10% provide unpaid care, while 21.1% look after children and 15.7% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, all well below national figures.
10.0% ▼ -0.1%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.1% ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.7% ▼ -24.3%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 15.7%
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 served in the Defence Force make up 1.6% of the population, a little below the 3.9% for Queensland and 2.8% for Australia.
1.6%
Lower than 62% 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 Coopers Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30698/coopers-plains/topic/community