8.7% ▼ -16.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 8.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Corio · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Corio
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A gap of 13 percentage points separates Corio from the Victorian average in terms of adults working or looking for work. The local workforce struggles more than most, with an unemployment rate of 8.7% that is well above the national figure of 5.1%. This suggests a community facing significant challenges in finding stable employment.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 49.8% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the national rate of 61.1%. This helps explain why full-time employment is well below the state average, sitting at 54.3%.
49.8% ▼ -3.5%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.6%
- 2016: 48.1%
- 2021: 49.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
54.3% ▼ -5.4%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.4%
- 2016: 56.8%
- 2021: 54.3%
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 13.4%, followed closely by retail trade at 12% and manufacturing at 11.3%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Labourers make up the largest group of workers at 21.1%, with technicians and trades following at 15.1% and community and personal service workers at 15%.
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 Corio [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20640/corio/topic/employment