3.7% ▲ +10.1%
Lower than 68% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 3.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Cuballing · Council (LGA)
Jobs & Industry in Cuballing
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 Cuballing over the last decade, with this figure falling 7.8 percentage points since 2011. Despite this shift, the area maintains a low unemployment rate of 3.7%, which is a little below the Western Australian and national figures.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The proportion of adults working or looking for work is 57%, which is well below the state and national averages. Full-time employment sits at 59.9%, roughly the same as the Western Australian figure.
57.0% ▼ -12.0%
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 64.8%
- 2016: 55.1%
- 2021: 57.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
59.9% ▼ -3.5%
Higher than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 62.1%
- 2016: 66.3%
- 2021: 59.9%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the dominant industry here, employing 29.1% of the workforce. Other significant sectors include health care and social assistance at 11%, followed by retail trade and education at 9.3% each.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers make up the largest group of workers at 25.8%, followed by labourers at 17.9%. Clerical and administrative roles account for 11.9% of jobs, while technicians and trades people make up 11%.
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 Cuballing [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA52310/cuballing/topic/employment