3.4% ▼ -6.7%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 3.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Picnic Point · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Picnic Point
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A higher proportion of adults are working or looking for work in Picnic Point than in the state or national averages. While 63.2% of adults are in the labour force, full-time employment is notably lower than the national figure. This suggests a local workforce with a higher-than-average share of part-time roles.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 63.2% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 58.7%. However, full-time employment is well below the Australian average, sitting at 55.7%. The unemployment rate is 3.4%, which is a little below the figures for both the state and the nation.
63.2% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 67.6%
- 2016: 65.4%
- 2021: 63.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
55.7% ▼ -11.8%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 63.2%
- 2016: 63.8%
- 2021: 55.7%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The most common industries for local workers are education and training at 12.9%, followed by health care and social assistance at 12.0% and construction at 10.7%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 26.0%. Clerical and administrative roles follow at 18.5%, with managers accounting for 17.9% 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 Picnic Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13211/picnic-point/topic/employment