8.4% ▼ -7.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 8.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Deer Park · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Deer Park
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
An unemployment rate of 8.4% is much higher than most areas, making job security a key challenge for Deer Park. While full-time work is common for those employed, far fewer adults here are working or looking for work compared to state and national figures.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 54.8% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the Victorian figure of 62.4%. This contributes to a local unemployment rate that is well above the national average.
54.8% ▼ -2.9%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.4%
- 2016: 55.9%
- 2021: 54.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
59.8% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 65.7%
- 2016: 62.0%
- 2021: 59.8%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry here at 12.3%, followed by manufacturing at 10.0% and transport and warehousing at 9.8%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common at 14.8%, though there is a nearly equal share of labourers (14.6%) and machinery operators and drivers (14.2%).
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 Deer Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20729/deer-park/topic/employment