4.2% ▼ -21.2%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.2%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Haddon · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Haddon
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 Haddon, where 15.6% of the workforce is employed in the sector. The area has a very high rate of adults working or looking for work compared to the rest of the country. This creates a productive local workforce with a typical full-time employment rate of 58.7%.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
At 68%, the proportion of adults working or looking for work is well above the national figure of 61.1%. The unemployment rate is 4.2%, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
68.0% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 67.3%
- 2016: 64.2%
- 2021: 68.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
58.7% ▼ -4.6%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.5%
- 2016: 57.4%
- 2021: 58.7%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local workforce is spread across several sectors, with construction (14.7%), education and training (9.8%), and manufacturing (9.5%) following health care as the main industries.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 17.9%, followed closely by technicians and trades at 16.8%. Community and personal service roles make up 12.3% of the local jobs.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
More for Haddon
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Haddon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21123/haddon/topic/employment