30.9% ▲ +7.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 42.9%
- 2021: 30.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coorow · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coorow
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Almost 31% of people in Coorow volunteer their time, a rate far above the national figure. This high level of community involvement defines the area, while other forms of unpaid work and service are less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 30.9% of residents giving their time. This is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia and the 15.9% in Western Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common than in most areas. Only 21.7% of people care for children unpaid, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%, and just 17.1% do 15 or more hours of housework each week.
10.5% ▲ +1.2%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.7% ▼ -13.2%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.1% ▼ -46.5%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 17.1%
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, which is a little below the national and state rates of around 2.8% to 2.9%.
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 Coorow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50335/coorow/topic/community