2.8% ▼ -15.2%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 2.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Camperdown · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Camperdown
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A far lower proportion of adults are working or looking for work in Camperdown compared to the rest of the state. Only 51.1% of adults are in the labour force, which is 11 percentage points below the Victorian figure. Despite this, the unemployment rate remains low at 2.8%.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is well below the national figure at 55.8%. This contributes to a much smaller workforce overall, with the 51.1% of adults working or looking for work being far below the Victorian average.
51.1% ▼ -3.1%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.7%
- 2016: 49.7%
- 2021: 51.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
55.8% ▼ -1.0%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.3%
- 2016: 54.1%
- 2021: 55.8%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer at 16.5%, followed by agriculture, forestry and fishing at 10.0% and retail trade at 9.8%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 17.6%, while technicians and trades workers account for 15.1% and labourers 14.9%.
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 Camperdown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20460/camperdown/topic/employment