3.4% ▼ -3.5%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 3.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Redhead · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Redhead
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer in Redhead, where 19.2% of the workforce is employed in this sector. The area has a lower proportion of people working or looking for work compared to the state and nation, though the unemployment rate remains low.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 54.4% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the national figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment is also well below the New South Wales average, sitting at 54.3%.
54.4% ▼ -5.8%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.7%
- 2016: 55.6%
- 2021: 54.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
54.3% ▼ -5.2%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.3%
- 2016: 56.2%
- 2021: 54.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Alongside the large health care sector, construction (11.7%) and education and training (11.2%) are the most common industries. Accommodation and food services and retail trade each employ around 7% of workers.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 29.3%. Other common roles include technicians and trades at 14.1%, followed by managers and community and personal service workers, who both sit at around 13%.
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 Redhead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13353/redhead/topic/employment