17.1% ▼ -30.3%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cooma · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Cooma
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Cooma provide unpaid child care, making it the most common form of community contribution in the area. While many residents contribute through care and service, the overall level of local volunteering has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.1% of people in Cooma volunteer, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%. However, this is a big drop from 2011, when 24.5% of the population volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid child care is provided by 22.7% of residents, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 12.8% of people provide other forms of unpaid care, a rate that has barely changed since 2011.
12.8% ▼ -4.9%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.7% ▼ -12.7%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.3% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 20.3%
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.
Defence service is slightly more common here than elsewhere, with 3.8% of people having served in the Defence Force. This is a little above the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
3.8%
Higher than 55% of urban centre 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 Cooma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114004/cooma/topic/community