11.7% ▼ -42.9%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cooya Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cooya Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Cooya Beach involves lower levels of community and family support compared to other areas. Only 11.7% of residents volunteer, and the rate of people providing unpaid care is lower than both the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much less common here than in most similar areas, with only 11.7% of people pitching in. This is a little below the Queensland and Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is well below the national figure at 21.8%. However, 23.2% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is a little above the 20.7% seen across Australia and Queensland.
10.3% ▲ +16.0%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.8% ▼ -29.2%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.2% ▲ +10.5%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 23.2%
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.
About 2.5% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for its level and is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
2.5%
Lower than 53% 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 Cooya Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30712/cooya-beach/topic/community