4.0% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 4.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Cedar Point · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
More people are working or looking for work in Cedar Point than in most similar areas. About 66.2% of adults are active in the labour force, which is well above the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The proportion of adults working or looking for work is well above the national figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment sits at 57.9%, which is about the same as the state and national averages, while the unemployment rate is 4.0%.
4.0% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
66.2% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
57.9% —
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Local jobs are spread across several sectors, with health care and social assistance being the most common at 14.7%. Manufacturing and retail trade each employ 11.6% of the workforce, followed by agriculture, forestry and fishing at 10.5%.
The kinds of jobs people do.
One in five residents works as a manager, making it the most common occupation at 20.0%. Other frequent roles include clerical and administrative work at 15.8% and professionals at 12.6%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Cedar Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10870/cedar-point/topic/employment