3.7% ▼ -24.0%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 3.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Mittagong · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Mittagong
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer in Mittagong, where 15.4% of workers are in this field. The town has a smaller proportion of people working or looking for work compared to the state and nation. While fewer residents hold full-time roles, the local unemployment rate is slightly lower than the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 54.3% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the national figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment is also well below the Australian average, with 54.8% of the population in these roles.
54.3% ▲ +4.4%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.0%
- 2016: 51.2%
- 2021: 54.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
54.8% ▼ -3.5%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.8%
- 2016: 56.6%
- 2021: 54.8%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The most common industries for local workers are health care and social assistance at 15.4%, followed by education and training at 10.9%. Retail trade, construction, and food services each employ around 9% of the workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 23.6%. Other common roles include managers at 15.2% and technicians and tradespeople at 14.6%.
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 Mittagong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12664/mittagong/topic/employment