4.1% ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.1%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Newtown · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Newtown
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Far more people are working or looking for work in Newtown than in most similar areas. This is a highly active workforce where 74.7% of adults are engaged in the labour market, which is far above the national figure of 61.1%.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is much higher than most areas, with 66.0% of residents in full-time roles. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 58.0%, while the unemployment rate is 4.1%, which is about the same as the national figure.
74.7% ▲ +1.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 73.3%
- 2016: 72.2%
- 2021: 74.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
66.0% ▼ -6.1%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 70.3%
- 2016: 70.6%
- 2021: 66.0%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Professional and technical services are the most common industry at 17.6%. Other major employers include health care and social assistance at 11.9% and education and training at 10.8%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Nearly half of workers are professionals (45.0%), which helps explain why the area has such high rates of full-time employment. Managers make up another 17.4% of the local workforce.
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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12969/newtown/topic/employment