6.4% ▼ -9.9%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Bingara · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Only 37.6% of adults in Bingara are working or looking for work, a figure far below the national average. This low level of employment is matched by an unemployment rate of 6.4%, which is a little above the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time work is less common here than in most areas, with only 49.1% of the population employed full-time. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 58.0%.
6.4% ▼ -9.9%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
37.6% ▲ +2.5%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
49.1% ▼ -12.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer at 21.0%, followed by public administration and safety at 13.3% and agriculture, forestry and fishing at 11.9%.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Community and personal service roles are the most common occupation at 16.5%, while labourers make up 15.8% of the local workforce.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Bingara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10364/bingara/topic/employment