17.9% —
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Copping · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Copping
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of unpaid care than most similar areas define Copping. A striking 43.2% of people spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, which is far above the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.9% of people here volunteer, which is around the middle for similar areas and roughly the same as the state figure. This is well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The area has high levels of unpaid work, with 31.5% of people caring for children and 15.4% providing other unpaid care, both of which are well above national and state levels.
15.4% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.5% —
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 31.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
43.2% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 43.2%
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.
Around 3.1% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
3.1%
Higher than 58% 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 Copping [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60127/copping/topic/community