9.6% ▼ -25.6%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Upper Coomera · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Upper Coomera
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Upper Coomera are now providing unpaid care for children than in previous years. While 35.7% of residents perform this role, which is well above the national figure, far fewer people here volunteer compared to other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.6% of people in Upper Coomera volunteer, a figure that is well below both the Queensland and Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The number of people caring for children unpaid is much higher than most areas at 35.7%, though those doing 15 or more hours of housework (20.5%) or providing other unpaid care (11%) are about the same as the national figures.
11.0% ▲ +24.1%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.7% ▼ -14.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.9%
- 2016: 40.6%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.5% ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 20.5%
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, which 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 Upper Coomera [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32902/upper-coomera/topic/community