5.4% ▼ -13.9%
Higher than 57% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 5.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Major Cities of Australia · Remoteness Area
Jobs & Industry in Major Cities of Australia
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A much higher share of adults are working or looking for work in the Major Cities of Australia compared to the national figure. While 64.2% of adults are active in the labour force, the number of people in full-time roles has fallen by 5.3 percentage points since 2011.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The number of adults working or looking for work is well above the Australian average of 61.1%. Full-time employment stands at 58.3%, while the unemployment rate of 5.4% is about the same as the national figure.
64.2% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 86% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 64.4%
- 2016: 63.1%
- 2021: 64.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
58.3% ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 52% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 63.6%
- 2016: 62.3%
- 2021: 58.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry, employing 15.6% of the workforce, followed by retail trade at 9.4% and construction at 9.3%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 24.0%. Other common roles include clerical and administrative work at 13.3% and technicians and trades at 12.7%.
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 Major Cities of Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA30/major-cities-of-australia/topic/employment