3.2% ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 3.2%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Dover Heights · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Dover Heights
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Professional roles dominate the workforce in Dover Heights, where 42.1% of workers are employed as professionals. This creates a high-earning profile for the area, though a smaller proportion of people work full-time compared to the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Working or looking for work is more common here than across Australia, at 62.6%. While the unemployment rate is a little below the national figure at 3.2%, full-time employment is well below the Australian average at 55.5%.
62.6% ▼ -1.8%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 63.7%
- 2016: 63.8%
- 2021: 62.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
55.5% ▼ -8.9%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 60.9%
- 2016: 60.3%
- 2021: 55.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local workforce is concentrated in professional and technical services at 19.0%, followed by health care and social assistance at 15.7% and finance and insurance at 11.1%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
High-level roles are very common, with 42.1% of residents working as professionals and another 24.9% as managers. Clerical and administrative jobs make up 12.3% of the local workforce.
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 Dover Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11286/dover-heights/topic/employment