14.3% ▲ +12.0%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coolbellup · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coolbellup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Coolbellup has remained steady over the last decade, with a small but consistent slice of the population contributing their time. About 14.3% of residents volunteer, a figure that sits right around the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates are lower than in most similar areas. At 14.3%, the local figure is a little below the Western Australian average of 15.9%, though it is about the same as the national rate.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Fewer people here do heavy unpaid work compared to other areas. Only 17.3% do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is well below the national figure of 20.7%, and 25.2% provide unpaid child care, which is well below the state average.
10.9% ▲ +7.5%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.2% ▲ +0.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 25.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.3% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 17.3%
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 2.4% of the population have served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for similar areas and is about the same as both the state and national figures.
2.4%
Lower than 54% 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 Coolbellup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50324/coolbellup/topic/community