4.9% ▼ -23.4%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 4.9%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Bairnsdale · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Bairnsdale
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A far lower share of adults are working or looking for work in Bairnsdale compared to the rest of the state. Only 51.3% of adults are in the labour force, which is far below the Victorian figure of 62.4%. This gap is a defining feature of the local workforce.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is well below the national figure, with only 51.9% of workers in full-time roles. While the unemployment rate is 4.9%, this is about the same as the state and national rates.
51.3% ▼ -0.5%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.6%
- 2016: 49.2%
- 2021: 51.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
51.9% ▼ -6.9%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.8%
- 2016: 55.0%
- 2021: 51.9%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the largest employer at 18.2%, followed by retail trade at 11.1% and manufacturing at 9.6%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The workforce is split across several roles, with labourers (16.2%) and professionals (16.1%) being the most common occupations, while 15.4% work in community and personal service.
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 Bairnsdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20103/bairnsdale/topic/employment