22.2% —
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.3%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cowan Cowan · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cowan Cowan
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of giving defines daily life in Cowan Cowan, where 22.2% of people volunteer. This is well above the Queensland and national figures of 14.1%, making it a place where residents are much more likely to help out than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 22.2% of people here volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% typical for Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon here, with 0.0% of people caring for children or others and only 11.1% doing 15 or more hours of housework. These figures are well below the state and national averages.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
11.1% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 11.1%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the Queensland average of 3.9%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Cowan Cowan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30736/cowan-cowan/topic/community