3.1% ▼ -13.7%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 3.1%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Wollstonecraft · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Wollstonecraft
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A high rate of full-time employment shapes daily life in Wollstonecraft, where 71.9% of the workforce holds full-time roles. This is far above the national figure of 58.9%, reflecting a workforce that is both highly active and securely employed.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 73.4% of adults are working or looking for work, which is much higher than most areas and far above the New South Wales rate of 58.7%. Unemployment is low at 3.1%, sitting a little below the national figure of 5.1%.
73.4% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 73.5%
- 2016: 73.8%
- 2021: 73.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
71.9% ▼ -5.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 75.7%
- 2016: 74.2%
- 2021: 71.9%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Professional and technical services are the biggest employer at 23.2%, followed by health care and social assistance at 12.7% and finance and insurance at 12.0%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Nearly half of the workforce are professionals (48.4%), while managers make up another 21.2% of jobs, reflecting the high proportion of people in professional and technical industries.
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 Wollstonecraft [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14377/wollstonecraft/topic/employment