0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Buddabadah · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A far higher proportion of adults are working or looking for work in Buddabadah than in the rest of the country. This small community sees a massive 90.9% of its adult population in the labour force, with an unemployment rate of 0.0%. Full-time employment is also very common here, sitting at 85.2%.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The rate of adults working or looking for work is far above the national figure of 61.1%. This high level of employment is reflected in the fact that full-time work is far more common here than in New South Wales.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
90.9% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
85.2% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the dominant industry, employing 70.4% of the local workforce. Other significant sectors include education and training at 18.5% and health care and social assistance at 14.8%.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Over half of the workers in Buddabadah are managers, accounting for 55.6% of occupations. Professionals, machinery operators and drivers, and labourers each make up 11.1% of the workforce.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Buddabadah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10634/buddabadah/topic/employment