0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Caniambo · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Very few people are out of work in Caniambo, where the unemployment rate is a striking 0.0%. This sparsely populated area has a workforce shaped by primary production, with over a third of residents working in agriculture, forestry and fishing.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 60.6% of adults are working or looking for work, which is about the same as the national figure. However, full-time employment is much lower than most areas at 48.8%, sitting 10 points below both the state and national levels.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
60.6% —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
48.8% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the dominant industry for 37.2% of the workforce. Health care and social assistance is the next most common field, employing 20.9% of residents.
The kinds of jobs people do.
A quarter of workers are managers, while professionals and machinery operators and drivers each make up 20.9% of the local workforce.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Caniambo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20463/caniambo/topic/employment