4.7% ▼ -28.9%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 4.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Eaglehawk · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Eaglehawk
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer in Eaglehawk, where 18.5% of workers are in this field. The area has a smaller proportion of people working or looking for work than most similar places, with just over half the adult population in the workforce.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 54.4% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the Victorian figure of 62.4%. Full-time employment is also well below the national average at 54.9%, while the unemployment rate is 4.7%, which is higher than most similar areas.
54.4% ▼ -0.7%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.8%
- 2016: 53.4%
- 2021: 54.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
54.9% ▼ -8.4%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.9%
- 2016: 55.9%
- 2021: 54.9%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Beyond health care, retail trade is the next most common industry at 10.8%, followed by manufacturing at 10.1% and construction at 9.6%. Education and training accounts for 7.7% of local jobs.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The most common roles are labourers at 15.9% and technicians and trades at 15.0%. Community and personal service workers make up 14.9% of the workforce, while professionals account for 14.3%.
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 Eaglehawk [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20823/eaglehawk/topic/employment