18.7% ▼ -26.8%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cookernup · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Cookernup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national figure for volunteering, Cookernup (L) is a place where residents are highly active in helping others. While 18.7% of people volunteer, this is a drop from the 25.5% recorded in 2011. The area also sees much higher rates of unpaid care work compared to most other places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.7% of people here volunteer, which is higher than most areas and well above the Australian figure of 14.1%. However, this rate has fallen by 6.8 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 16.2% of people providing care—a figure well above the state and national averages. This is alongside a high number of people doing unpaid housework (25.6%) and those caring for children (27.6%).
16.2% ▲ +33.8%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.6% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.6% ▼ -28.4%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.8%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 25.6%
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.
Only 2.2% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is much lower than most similar areas and about the same as the figures for Western Australia and Australia.
2.2%
Lower than 83% 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).
More for Cookernup
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Cookernup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522013/cookernup/topic/community