3.7% ▲ +41.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 3.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Vacy · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Vacy
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A higher than usual proportion of adults are working or looking for work in Vacy, where 66.1% of the adult population is active in the labour force. This is well above the national figure of 61.1%, though full-time employment is slightly lower than in most other areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
While 66.1% of adults are in the workforce, those in full-time roles make up 56.2%, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 58.0%. The unemployment rate is 3.7%, sitting a little below the national rate of 5.1%.
66.1% ▲ +10.5%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.8%
- 2016: 68.9%
- 2021: 66.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.2% ▼ -3.4%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 58.1%
- 2016: 60.2%
- 2021: 56.2%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for local workers at 13.7%, followed closely by construction at 12.9% and agriculture, forestry and fishing at 9.3%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Technicians and trades workers are the largest occupational group at 21.9%, while professionals make up 15.3% 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 Vacy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14081/vacy/topic/employment