3.6% ▼ -1.9%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 3.6%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Glen Alpine · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Glen Alpine
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for workers in Glen Alpine, where 13.8% of people are employed in this sector. The area has a strong workforce, with a higher proportion of adults working or looking for work than the national average.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 62.2% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 58.7%. The unemployment rate is 3.6%, a little below the national figure of 5.1%.
62.2% ▼ -14.0%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 72.4%
- 2016: 70.4%
- 2021: 62.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.8% ▼ -13.7%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 65.7%
- 2016: 65.7%
- 2021: 56.8%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The biggest employers in the area are health care and social assistance (13.8%), followed by education and training (11.4%) and construction (9.6%).
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 22.9%, while 16.9% work as managers and 15.9% in clerical and administrative roles.
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 Glen Alpine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11649/glen-alpine/topic/employment