4.8% ▼ -22.9%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 4.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Ballarat Central · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Ballarat Central
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer in Ballarat Central, where 23.9% of the workforce is employed in that sector. While the proportion of adults working or looking for work is about the same as the national figure, full-time employment is a little lower than across Australia.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 61.9% of adults are working or looking for work, which is around the middle for similar areas. However, the unemployment rate of 4.8% is higher than in most other areas.
61.9% ▼ -1.6%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 62.9%
- 2016: 61.5%
- 2021: 61.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.3% ▼ -5.5%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.6%
- 2016: 55.1%
- 2021: 56.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Work in Ballarat Central is led by health care and social assistance (23.9%) and education and training (13.1%). Other common industries include accommodation and food services at 8.8% and retail trade at 8.3%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 33.8%. This is followed by community and personal service workers at 14% and managers at 13.3%.
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 Ballarat Central [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20111/ballarat-central/topic/employment