41.5% —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 55.7%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coomandook · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coomandook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive 41.5% of people volunteer in Coomandook, a figure far above the national average. This high level of community involvement is mirrored in the home, where residents provide significantly more unpaid care and support than people in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 41.5% of people pitching in, which is far above the South Australian figure of 17.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a major part of local life, as 35.4% of people care for children unpaid, well above the national figure of 26.3%. This is consistent with other care roles, with 15.4% providing unpaid care and 24.6% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly.
15.4% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.4% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 35.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.6% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 24.6%
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, which is well below the South Australian rate of 3.2%.
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 Coomandook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40300/coomandook/topic/community