3.6% ▼ -28.3%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 3.6%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Brookvale · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Brookvale
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for workers in Brookvale, where 12.4% of the workforce is employed in this sector. The area has a very high rate of employment, with 72.2% of adults working or looking for work.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
A far higher share of adults are working or looking for work here than the national figure, at 72.2%. This is supported by strong full-time employment, which is well above the New South Wales figure at 62.6%.
72.2% ▲ +6.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 67.9%
- 2016: 72.7%
- 2021: 72.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
62.6% ▼ -12.7%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 71.7%
- 2016: 69.5%
- 2021: 62.6%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Beyond health care, the local workforce is spread across retail trade (10.4%), professional and technical services (10.3%), and construction (9.5%).
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 23.9%, followed by managers at 16.2% and technicians and tradespeople at 15%.
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 Brookvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10598/brookvale/topic/employment