6.4% ▼ -20.3%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 6.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Possum Creek · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Possum Creek
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Far fewer adults are working or looking for work in Possum Creek compared to the rest of the country. Only 53.9% of adults are in the labour force, which is well below the national figure of 61.1%. This gap is mirrored in the high number of people without full-time roles.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Just 40.8% of the workforce is employed full-time, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.0%. At the same time, the unemployment rate is 6.4%, a little above the national rate of 5.1%.
53.9% ▼ -17.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 64.9%
- 2016: 54.0%
- 2021: 53.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
40.8% ▼ -1.1%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.3%
- 2016: 39.3%
- 2021: 40.8%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The most common industries for local workers are professional and technical services at 14.2%, followed by health care and social assistance at 13.3% and construction at 11.7%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
A quarter of workers in Possum Creek are managers, while another 24.2% are professionals. Technicians, trades, community service workers, and sales staff each make up 8.3% 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 Possum Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13264/possum-creek/topic/employment