14.0% ▼ -43.3%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coomba Park · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Coomba Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Coomba Park involves a high amount of unpaid work and care at home. While volunteering has dropped, the area has a notably high number of former Defence Force members. Roughly 15% of residents provide some form of unpaid care to others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14% of people here volunteer, which is about the same as the national figure. This is a significant drop from 2011, when nearly a quarter of the population volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common, with 28.5% of residents doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the New South Wales figure. This is consistent with a higher-than-usual 14.7% of people providing unpaid care, though only 9.7% care for children unpaid, which is far below the national average.
14.7% ▲ +18.5%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
9.7% ▼ -73.4%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.5%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.5% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 28.5%
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 much higher proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most other areas. At 5.1%, this is a little above both the state and national figures.
5.1%
Higher than 78% 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 Coomba Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121023/coomba-park/topic/community