6.7% ▼ -17.3%
Higher than 85% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 6.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Coonamble · Council (LGA)
Jobs & Industry in Coonamble
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Fewer adults have been working or looking for work in Coonamble since 2011, with this figure falling by 4.3 percentage points. While full-time employment is now well above the national figure at 64.2%, the unemployment rate remains a little above the Australian average at 6.7%.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 51.0% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the national figure of 61.1%. Despite this, full-time employment is much higher than most areas, though it fell 2.5 percentage points since 2011.
51.0% ▼ -7.7%
Lower than 78% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 55.3%
- 2016: 50.0%
- 2021: 51.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
64.2% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 74% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 66.7%
- 2016: 63.5%
- 2021: 64.2%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the biggest employer here, making up 26.3% of jobs. Health care and social assistance follows at 13.6%, with education and training accounting for 13.3% of the workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
One in four workers in Coonamble is a manager, representing 25.0% of all occupations. Labourers make up 14.9% of the workforce, followed by professionals at 13.8%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Coonamble [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA12150/coonamble/topic/employment