5.8% ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 5.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Telopea · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Telopea
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 Telopea, where 15.4% of the workforce is employed in this sector. The area faces some employment challenges, with an unemployment rate of 5.8% that is much higher than most similar areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Fewer adults in Telopea are working or looking for work compared to most areas, at 54.2%. Full-time employment is also well below the national figure, with only 54.8% of the population working full-time.
54.2% ▼ -3.7%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.4%
- 2016: 56.6%
- 2021: 54.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
54.8% ▼ -19.4%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 68.0%
- 2016: 65.6%
- 2021: 54.8%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local workforce is spread across several key sectors, with professional and technical services (8.9%) and retail trade (8.7%) following health care as the main employers. Education and training (8.3%) and construction (7.7%) also provide significant employment.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most frequent occupation here, accounting for 29.8% of workers. Other common roles include clerical and administrative work at 14.7%, and managers at 12.6%.
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 Telopea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13797/telopea/topic/employment