12.7% ▼ -25.2%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cooya Beach · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Cooya Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 30% of people in Cooya Beach provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the national average. This makes family care the most common form of community contribution in the area, although other types of volunteering are less frequent.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower here than in most similar areas. Only 12.7% of residents volunteer, which is a drop of 4.3 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care for children is common, with 30% of people helping out unpaid. This is well above the Queensland figure of 26.5%, and 25.7% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on housework. However, those providing other types of unpaid care make up only 9.4% of the population, which is much lower than most areas.
9.4% ▲ +8.8%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.0% ▼ -10.0%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.4%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.7% ▼ -0.8%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 25.7%
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 uncommon in Cooya Beach, where 2.6% of people have served. This is a little below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
2.6%
Lower than 76% 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 Cooya Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321033/cooya-beach/topic/community