3.0% ▼ -69.3%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 3.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Wooloweyah · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Wooloweyah
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A gap of nearly 11 percentage points separates Wooloweyah from the national average in full-time employment. While 66.6% of adults are working or looking for work—a figure well above the Australian average—far fewer people hold full-time roles compared to other areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time work is much less common here, at 48.2%, which is far below the national figure of 58.9%. Despite this, the unemployment rate is a little below the national average at 3.0%.
66.6% ▲ +3.5%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 64.4%
- 2016: 59.7%
- 2021: 66.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
48.2% ▲ +4.0%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.4%
- 2016: 47.5%
- 2021: 48.2%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer at 19.2%, followed by construction at 12.5% and education and training at 11.6%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 28.6%, while technicians and tradespeople make up 18.3% 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 Wooloweyah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14429/wooloweyah/topic/employment