15.3% ▼ -21.0%
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coogee · State Electorate
Community Participation in Coogee
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 23.4% of people in Coogee provide unpaid childcare, making it the most common form of community contribution here. While many residents help out, the numbers for unpaid care and housework have dropped noticeably since 2011. This reflects a local trend of decreasing participation in home-based care and volunteer work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common in Coogee, with 15.3% of residents helping out, which is a little above the national figure. However, this has fallen 4.1 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Much fewer people here perform unpaid care compared to most areas. Only 16.9% do 15 or more hours of housework a week, a figure that is well below the state and national averages.
9.6% ▼ -21.6%
Lower than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.4% ▼ -12.9%
Lower than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 23.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.9% ▼ -35.4%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 16.9%
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.
Defence service is rare in this area, with only 1.7% of people having served. This is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.7%
Lower than 83% of state electorate 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 Coogee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10021/coogee/topic/community