15.6% ▼ -37.2%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cooyar · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cooyar
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Higher rates of unpaid care work set Cooyar apart from most similar areas. While 17% of people provide unpaid care, this is well above the national figure of 11.9%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.6% of people here volunteer, which is a little above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 17% of people providing care and 28.8% doing 15 or more hours of housework, both well above the national figures. In contrast, the 12.3% of people caring for children unpaid is far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
17.0% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.3% ▼ -43.2%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.8% ▼ -10.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 33.9%
- 2021: 28.8%
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.
A higher share of people here have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 3.7% of residents having served.
3.7%
Higher than 67% 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 Cooyar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30713/cooyar/topic/community