82.6% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coorumbene · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coorumbene
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive 82.6% of people volunteer in Coorumbene, a figure that is far above the national average. This level of community involvement is among the highest for similar areas and defines the local spirit. Residents here also take on much more unpaid work at home than people across the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is incredibly common here, with 82.6% of people helping out, which is 68 percentage points higher than the Australian figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Nearly half of residents (47.8%) provide unpaid childcare, far above the 26.3% national average. This links to a higher rate of housework, with 30.4% doing over 15 hours weekly, though no one reported providing other types of unpaid care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
47.8% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.4% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Coorumbene [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30709/coorumbene/topic/community