3.0% ▼ -15.7%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Crows Nest · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Crows Nest
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Far more adults are working or looking for work in Crows Nest than in the rest of the state. This high level of activity is driven by a workforce where 73.2% of people have full-time jobs, a figure far above the national average.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 77% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 58.7%. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate is 3% and sits a little below the national figure.
77.0% ▲ +2.6%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 75.0%
- 2016: 74.9%
- 2021: 77.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
73.2% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 76.2%
- 2016: 76.3%
- 2021: 73.2%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Professional and technical services are the biggest employer at 20.5%, followed by finance and insurance at 13% and health care and social assistance at 12.3%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The local workforce is heavily skewed toward high-level roles, with professionals making up 44% of workers and managers accounting for another 23%.
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 Crows Nest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11132/crows-nest/topic/employment