3.8% ▼ -30.9%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 3.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
East Killara · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in East Killara
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Forty percent of working residents in East Killara are professionals, making it a highly skilled area. While professional roles dominate the local workforce, fewer adults here are working or looking for work compared to most other areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 55.5% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the national figure of 61.1%. Despite this, the unemployment rate is 3.8%, slightly lower than both the state and national figures.
55.5% ▼ -3.2%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.4%
- 2016: 56.5%
- 2021: 55.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.5% ▼ -5.7%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.9%
- 2016: 62.3%
- 2021: 56.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Professional and technical services are the most common industries, employing 19.2% of the workforce. Health care and social assistance (13.4%) and finance and insurance (12.4%) also provide a significant number of local jobs.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The local workforce is dominated by high-level roles, with professionals making up 40.6% of occupations and managers accounting for 20.8%. Clerical and administrative roles follow at 13.5%.
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 East Killara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11358/east-killara/topic/employment