0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Kardella South · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for workers in Kardella South, where 18.4% of the workforce is employed in this sector. This is a highly active community where 70.4% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well above the national figure.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
A huge 70.4% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure well above both the state and national averages. While the unemployment rate is well below the national figure at 0.0%, full-time employment is lower than most areas at 53.9%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
70.4% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
53.9% —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the top industry at 18.4%, followed by transport and warehousing at 15.8% and construction at 10.5%. Other notable sectors include retail trade at 7.9% and agriculture, forestry and fishing at 6.6%.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Machinery operators and drivers are the most common workers at 22.4%. Managers and community and personal service workers each make up 17.1% of the workforce, while sales workers and labourers both sit at 13.2%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Kardella South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21301/kardella-south/topic/employment