3.6% ▼ -16.7%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 3.6%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Shell Cove · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Shell Cove
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A much higher proportion of adults in Shell Cove are working or looking for work compared to the state and national figures. While 65% of adults are in the labour force, the unemployment rate is a little below the national figure at 3.6%. This creates a workforce that is more active than in most similar areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 65% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 58.7%. Full-time employment sits at 56.9%, a little below the Australian average of 58.9%.
65.0% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 68.2%
- 2016: 69.4%
- 2021: 65.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.9% ▼ -7.5%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.5%
- 2016: 60.6%
- 2021: 56.9%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer at 15.9%, followed by education and training at 10.3% and construction at 10.2%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 23%, while clerical and administrative work accounts for 14.2% of jobs.
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 Shell Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13547/shell-cove/topic/employment