1.8% ▼ -73.5%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 1.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Broken Head · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Broken Head
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Far fewer people are in the workforce in Broken Head compared to the rest of the state. Only 53.6% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the national figure of 61.1%. This low level of employment is paired with a very low unemployment rate of just 1.8%.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time work is rare here, with only 39.9% of residents employed full-time, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58%. This helps explain why the overall number of adults working or looking for work is much lower than in most other areas.
53.6% ▼ -14.5%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 62.7%
- 2016: 57.3%
- 2021: 53.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
39.9% ▼ -9.9%
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.2%
- 2016: 44.5%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local workforce is spread across several sectors, led by professional and technical services at 13.1% and health care and social assistance at 12.5%. Other common industries include accommodation and food (11.3%) and agriculture, forestry and fishing (8.9%).
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 33.3%, followed by managers at 26.8%. Other residents work as community and personal service workers (10.1%), labourers (8.3%), or as technicians and tradespeople (6.5%).
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 Broken Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10588/broken-head/topic/employment