11.7% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 11.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Clydebank · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A far higher share of adults are working or looking for work in Clydebank than in the rest of the state. While 77% of adults are in the workforce, the area also faces a much higher unemployment rate than most other regions.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The unemployment rate is 11.7%, which is well above the Victorian figure of 5.0%. Full-time employment is also a little below the national average, with 56.3% of the workforce in full-time roles.
11.7% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
77.0% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.3% —
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the main employer for 35.2% of the workforce. Health care and social assistance follows at 11.3%, with construction accounting for 9.9%.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers are the most common occupation at 26.8%, followed by labourers at 16.9%. Professionals and community and personal service workers both make up 15.5% of the local workforce.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Clydebank [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20583/clydebank/topic/employment