2.9% ▲ +7.9%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.9%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Queenscliff · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Queenscliff
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Far more adults are working or looking for work in Queenscliff than in most similar areas, with 75.6% in the labour force. This is a high-employment suburb where 67.5% of residents hold full-time jobs, a figure well above the national average.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The number of adults working or looking for work is far above the state and national figures. Unemployment is quite low at 2.9%, which is a little below the 5.1% seen across Australia.
75.6% ▼ -2.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 77.4%
- 2016: 75.3%
- 2021: 75.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
67.5% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 72.9%
- 2016: 71.6%
- 2021: 67.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Professional and technical services are the main industry here, employing 19.9% of the workforce. Other common sectors include health care and social assistance at 10.2% and finance and insurance at 8.7%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are very common, making up 38% of jobs, followed by managers at 23.2%. Together, these high-level roles dominate the local workforce, while clerical and administrative staff account for 9.4%.
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 Queenscliff [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13309/queenscliff/topic/employment