0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Canbelego · 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 Canbelego than the national figure. This workforce is remarkably stable, with a full-time employment rate of 86.2% and an unemployment rate of 0.0%, which is well below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Working or looking for work is common here, with 76.3% of adults active in the labour force. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 58.7%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
76.3% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
86.2% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
The local economy is dominated by two sectors, with 51.7% of people working in agriculture, forestry and fishing and 44.8% in mining.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers make up 58.6% of the workforce, followed by labourers at 31.0% and machinery operators and drivers at 24.1%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Canbelego [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10786/canbelego/topic/employment