17.5% ▼ -8.1%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coral Bay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coral Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people perform unpaid care and housework in Coral Bay than in the rest of the country. While volunteering is relatively common, the most striking feature is how rarely residents provide unpaid care for children or others compared to state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.5% of people volunteer here, which is a little above the Western Australian figure and well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas, with only 13.4% caring for children and 5.1% providing general unpaid care. Similarly, only 11.5% do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is well below the national figure of 20.7%.
5.1% ▲ +16.6%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.4% ▼ -0.4%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
11.5% ▼ -22.1%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 11.5%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 2.7%, which is about the same as the rates for both Western Australia and Australia.
2.7%
Higher than 51% 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 Coral Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50338/coral-bay/topic/community