4.0% ▼ -28.0%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Turlinjah · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Turlinjah
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Construction is the biggest employer in Turlinjah, with 20% of the workforce in this industry. The area has a mix of trades and service roles, though it has a much lower share of full-time workers than the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 58.6% of adults are working or looking for work, which is about the same as the New South Wales figure. However, full-time employment is well below the national average at 52.9%.
58.6% ▲ +5.8%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.4%
- 2016: 56.3%
- 2021: 58.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
52.9% ▲ +10.0%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.0%
- 2016: 40.7%
- 2021: 52.9%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Beyond construction, many residents work in health care and social assistance (15.7%) or retail trade (14.3%). Agriculture, forestry and fishing and the food and accommodation sectors each employ 8.6% of the workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The most common jobs are for technicians and trades people (25.7%) and labourers (17.1%). Other typical roles include community and personal service workers at 14.3% and clerical and administrative staff at 11.4%.
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 Turlinjah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13993/turlinjah/topic/employment