0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Bamawm Extension · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the biggest industry for workers in Bamawm Extension, where 26.8% of people are employed in these fields. The area is sparsely populated, with a notably low unemployment rate of 0.0%. This stands well below both the Victorian figure of 5.0% and the national figure of 5.1%.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 63% of adults are working or looking for work, which is similar to the Victorian average. However, full-time employment is only 52.8%, a figure well below the national rate of 58.9%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
63.0% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
52.8% ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Aside from farming, construction and healthcare are the next most common industries, each accounting for 12.7% of the workforce.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers make up the largest group of workers at 27.5%, followed by labourers at 12.7% and technicians or tradespeople at 11.3%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Bamawm Extension [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20126/bamawm-extension/topic/employment