7.6% ▲ +7.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 7.6%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Bulahdelah · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Bulahdelah
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Nearly 15% of Bulahdelah workers are employed in accommodation and food services, the town's largest industry. While this provides many local jobs, the overall workforce is quite small and faces a higher unemployment rate than the national average.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 43.8% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.7%. This smaller workforce faces more hardship, with an unemployment rate of 7.6%, a little above the Australian average of 5.1%.
43.8% ▼ -12.1%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.8%
- 2016: 43.9%
- 2021: 43.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
49.9% ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.5%
- 2016: 52.0%
- 2021: 49.9%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Local employment is spread across several sectors, with health care and social assistance at 13.3% and retail trade at 11.4%. Other key industries include construction at 8.4% and agriculture, forestry and fishing at 8.0%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Labourers make up the largest group of workers at 17.0%. Community and personal service workers account for 13.8%, followed by professionals at 12.5% and managers at 12.1%.
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 Bulahdelah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10646/bulahdelah/topic/employment