Smithfield · Suburb / Locality

Jobs & Industry in Smithfield

Name: Jobs & Industry in Smithfield — 2021 Census
Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.

Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for workers in Smithfield. The area faces significant employment challenges, with an unemployment rate of 8.9% that is well above both the state and national figures. Very few adults here are working or looking for work compared to most other Australian areas.

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📍 Smithfield, Suburb / Locality

Labour force

Employment, participation and unemployment.

Only 38.3% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the national figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment is also much lower than most areas at 49.3%, while the unemployment rate is well above the New South Wales figure.

Industries

The industries that employ local workers.

Employment is spread across several sectors, with health care and social assistance leading at 12.5%. Manufacturing, retail trade, and construction each employ around 10% of the local workforce, followed by transport and warehousing at 8.2%.

Industries people work in

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Smithfield splits fairly evenly between Health care & social assistance (13%) and Manufacturing (11%), with Retail trade at 11%.

Health care & social assistance 12.5% Manufacturing 10.6% Retail trade 10.5% Construction 10.4% Transport & warehousing 8.2% Education & training 6.7% Accommodation & food 5.2% Public administration & safety 4.7% Professional & technical 4.6% Other services 4.3%

Occupations

The kinds of jobs people do.

Professional roles are the most common occupation at 15.4%. This is followed by clerical and administrative work at 14.5% and technicians and trades at 14.3%, with machinery operators and drivers making up another 13.4% of the workforce.

Occupations people work in

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Smithfield splits fairly evenly between Professionals (16%) and Clerical & administrative (15%), with Technicians & trades at 15%.

Professionals 15.4% Clerical & administrative 14.5% Technicians & trades 14.3% Machinery operators & drivers 13.4% Community & personal service 11.5% Labourers 11.2% Managers 8.8% Sales workers 8.5%

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 Smithfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13575/smithfield/topic/employment

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