3.4% ▼ -51.1%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 3.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Abernethy · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Abernethy
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Nearly one in five workers in Abernethy are machinery operators and drivers. This is a hardworking area where a high proportion of adults are working or looking for work, well above both the state and national figures.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 66.9% of adults are in the workforce, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 58.7%. The unemployment rate is 3.4%, a little below the national figure of 5.1%.
66.9% ▲ +22.8%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.5%
- 2016: 49.8%
- 2021: 66.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
57.6% ▲ +1.2%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.0%
- 2016: 56.2%
- 2021: 57.6%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The biggest employment sectors are manufacturing at 14.1% and retail trade at 12.9%. Health care and social assistance also employ 10.6% of the workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Machinery operators and drivers make up 18.8% of jobs, followed closely by technicians and trades at 18.2%. Other common roles include community and personal service workers at 14.7% and labourers at 12.4%.
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 Abernethy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10011/abernethy/topic/employment