3.0% ▼ -43.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 3.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Brown Hill · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Brown Hill
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
More adults are working or looking for work in Brown Hill than in most other areas, with 67.2% of the adult population active in the job market. This is well above the figures for Victoria and Australia. The local workforce is steady, with a low unemployment rate of 3.0%.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
A high proportion of adults here are working or looking for work, which is well above the national figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment sits at 58.9%, about the same as the state and national averages.
67.2% ▲ +1.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 66.1%
- 2016: 66.2%
- 2021: 67.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
58.9% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.3%
- 2016: 60.1%
- 2021: 58.9%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for local workers at 18.5%, followed by construction at 13.7% and education and training at 11.7%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 25.2%. Other significant groups include technicians and trades at 15.0% 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 Brown Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20356/brown-hill/topic/employment