17.5% ▼ -15.1%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coowonga · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coowonga
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates in Coowonga have stayed strong since 2011, with 17.5% of people giving their time to others. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%. Local residents are also much more likely to provide unpaid care than people in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.5% of people in Coowonga volunteer, which is around the middle for similar areas and well above the Queensland average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care roles are common here, with 16.2% of people providing unpaid care and 30.3% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly—both figures are well above the national average. Interestingly, the 22.4% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the Queensland figure of 26.5%.
16.2% ▲ +15.2%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.4% ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.3% ▲ +11.5%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 30.3%
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 1.8% of the population, which is a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.8%
Lower than 61% 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 Coowonga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30711/coowonga/topic/community