5.1% ▼ -18.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 5.1%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Cooks Gap · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Cooks Gap
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Fewer adults are working or looking for work in Cooks Gap compared to most similar areas. While the unemployment rate is 5.1%—about the same as the national figure—the overall number of people active in the workforce is notably lower than in the state and across Australia.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 56.1% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the Australian figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment sits at 56.5%, a little below both the state and national levels.
56.1% ▲ +16.1%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.4%
- 2016: 49.1%
- 2021: 56.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.5% ▼ -0.8%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.9%
- 2016: 59.4%
- 2021: 56.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Mining is the most common industry here, employing 22.2% of the workforce, followed by retail trade at 13.3% and construction at 8.9%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The local workforce is largely made up of machinery operators and drivers (19.0%), technicians and trades (16.9%), and labourers (15.7%).
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 Cooks Gap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11018/cooks-gap/topic/employment