2.5% ▼ -79.6%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 2.5%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Scarborough · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Scarborough
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
More adults are working or looking for work in Scarborough than in most similar areas. This active workforce is backed by a very low unemployment rate of 2.5%, which is a little below the national figure of 5.1%.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 63.5% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure well above the New South Wales average of 58.7%. While the unemployment rate is low, full-time employment is a little below the national level at 56.0%.
63.5% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 69.7%
- 2016: 71.5%
- 2021: 63.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.0% ▼ -8.8%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.4%
- 2016: 59.9%
- 2021: 56.0%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The most common industries for local workers are health care and social assistance at 12.0%, followed by public administration and safety at 11.3% and education and training at 10.7%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 26.0%, with managers accounting for another 22.0% 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 Scarborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13515/scarborough/topic/employment