3.2% ▼ -4.7%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 3.2%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Frenchs Forest · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Frenchs Forest
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
More adults in Frenchs Forest are working or looking for work than in most similar areas. A high proportion of the population is employed, with 67% of adults in the labour force and a low unemployment rate of 3.2%.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The local unemployment rate is 3.2%, which is a little below both the New South Wales figure of 4.9% and the national figure of 5.1%. Full-time employment sits at 57.4%, about the same as the state average.
67.0% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 67.2%
- 2016: 68.0%
- 2021: 67.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
57.4% ▼ -6.1%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.1%
- 2016: 61.1%
- 2021: 57.4%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Professional and technical services are the most common industry for local workers at 13%, followed closely by health care and social assistance at 12.2% and education and training at 10.1%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The workforce is heavily weighted toward high-level roles, with professionals making up 30.5% of jobs and managers accounting for 20.9%.
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 Frenchs Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11571/frenchs-forest/topic/employment