3.4% ▼ -21.2%
Lower than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 3.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Kiama · Council (LGA)
Jobs & Industry in Kiama
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the top employer in Kiama, where 15.5% of workers are in this sector. While the area has a very low unemployment rate of 3.4%, fewer adults are working or looking for work compared to the state and national figures.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 54.8% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the national figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment has also fallen since 2011 to 53.3%, a rate much lower than most similar areas.
54.8% ▼ -5.9%
Lower than 65% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 58.3%
- 2016: 55.6%
- 2021: 54.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
53.3% ▼ -6.7%
Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 57.2%
- 2016: 56.7%
- 2021: 53.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Jobs are spread across several key sectors, with health care and social assistance (15.5%) and education and training (12.7%) being the most common. Construction also employs a large share at 12.1%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 28.4%, followed by managers at 16.0% and technicians and trades at 14.6%.
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 Kiama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA14400/kiama/topic/employment