4.9% ▲ +38.4%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 4.9%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Hillsborough · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Hillsborough
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A strong employment rate marks Hillsborough, where 66% of adults are working or looking for work. This is well above the national figure of 61.1%. The area has a workforce that is more active than most similar places, with a high proportion of people in full-time roles.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Adults working or looking for work are well above the New South Wales figure. Full-time employment is also a little above the national average at 60.2%, while the unemployment rate of 4.9% is about the same as the state and national figures.
66.0% ▼ -2.4%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 67.6%
- 2016: 60.3%
- 2021: 66.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
60.2% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.7%
- 2016: 60.8%
- 2021: 60.2%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for local workers at 23%, followed by retail trade at 12.1% and construction at 11.8%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The local workforce is split across several roles, with technicians and trades and community and personal service workers both making up 16.8% of occupations.
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 Hillsborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11916/hillsborough/topic/employment