2.4% ▼ -18.5%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 2.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Cohuna · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Cohuna
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Only 46.2% of adults in Cohuna are working or looking for work, a figure far below the national level. Despite this, the town maintains a very low unemployment rate of 2.4%. This combination suggests a significant number of residents are not in the workforce, perhaps due to early retirement or other commitments.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
While few adults are in the workforce compared to most areas, the 2.4% unemployment rate is lower than both the state and national figures. Full-time employment sits at 58.4%, which is about the same as the rest of Australia.
46.2% ▼ -9.6%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.1%
- 2016: 47.1%
- 2021: 46.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
58.4% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 58.6%
- 2016: 55.1%
- 2021: 58.4%
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 14.2%, followed closely by agriculture, forestry and fishing at 12.9%. Construction and retail trade also employ around 10% of the workforce each.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers, technicians and trades workers are the most common jobs, each making up 15.8% of the workforce. Professionals follow at 15.4%, while labourers account for 13.5% of occupations.
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 Cohuna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20604/cohuna/topic/employment