3.6% ▼ -42.0%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 3.6%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Boorcan · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Boorcan
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Over 60% of workers in Boorcan are employed in agriculture, forestry, and fishing. This is a hardworking area where 75.7% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure far above the national average of 61.1%. Most of these jobs are full-time roles.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 75.7% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far above the Victorian figure of 62.4%. The unemployment rate is 3.6%, a little below the national figure of 5.1%.
75.7% ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 72.8%
- 2016: 76.6%
- 2021: 75.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
59.3% ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.8%
- 2016: 68.8%
- 2021: 59.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the dominant industry, employing 60.5% of the workforce. Other common industries include retail trade and health care and social assistance, each at 8.6%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers make up 38.3% of the local workforce, followed by labourers at 22.2%. Professionals and clerical or administrative workers each account for 7.4% of jobs.
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 Boorcan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20294/boorcan/topic/employment