11.8% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coral Sea · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coral Sea
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few people in Coral Sea engage in unpaid care or housework compared to similar areas. While 8% of the population has served in the Defence Force, volunteering rates are lower than the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.8% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon here; only 6.6% of people care for children and 9.2% do over 15 hours of housework, both far below the national figures of around 20% to 26%. No one in the area reported providing other unpaid care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
6.6% —
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
9.2% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 9.2%
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.
Defence service is more common here than elsewhere, with 8% of residents having served. This is well above the national figure of 2.8% and the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
8.0%
Higher than 91% 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 Coral Sea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30717/coral-sea/topic/community