0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Buckendoon · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A full employment rate of 63.6% marks Buckendoon as a place where full-time work is much more common than in most similar areas. While fewer adults are working or looking for work compared to the national figure, the local unemployment rate is exceptionally low at 0.0%.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is well above both the state (58.0%) and national (58.9%) figures. The share of adults working or looking for work is 57.9%, which is well below the Australian average of 61.1%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
57.9% —
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
63.6% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Work in Buckendoon is split evenly between agriculture, forestry and fishing and health care and social assistance, with both industries employing 31.8% of the workforce. Accommodation and food services account for a further 13.6%.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers make up the largest group of workers at 31.8%. Community and personal service workers follow at 22.7%, while machinery operators, drivers, and labourers each make up 18.2% of the workforce.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Buckendoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10630/buckendoon/topic/employment