7.7% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 7.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Pottery Estate · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Pottery Estate
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A far lower proportion of adults are working or looking for work in Pottery Estate compared to the rest of the country. Only 41.1% of adults are in the labour force, which is 20 percentage points below the national figure. This gap is matched by an unemployment rate of 7.7%, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Just 41.1% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 58.7%. Full-time employment is also a little below the state level at 55.6%.
41.1% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.7%
- 2021: 41.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
55.6% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 53.3%
- 2021: 55.6%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Employment is spread across several sectors, with the highest shares in accommodation and food (27.8%) and health care and social assistance (25.0%).
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common at 22.2%, followed by technicians and trades at 19.4%. Community and personal service workers and machinery operators both make up 13.9% of the 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 Pottery Estate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13266/pottery-estate/topic/employment