5.1% ▲ +10.5%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 5.1%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Lyndhurst · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Lyndhurst
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A far higher share of adults are working or looking for work in Lyndhurst compared to the rest of the country. With 74% of adults in the labour force, the area shows a much stronger employment drive than the national average.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time work is common here, with 64.8% of the workforce employed full-time, which is well above the Victorian figure of 59.2%. The unemployment rate is 5.1%, about the same as the state and national figures.
74.0% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 77.8%
- 2016: 74.2%
- 2021: 74.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
64.8% ▼ -10.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 72.4%
- 2016: 67.8%
- 2021: 64.8%
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 15.4%, followed by manufacturing at 11.4% and retail trade at 9.1%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 24%, while clerical and administrative jobs account for 13.5% of the local workforce.
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 Lyndhurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21555/lyndhurst/topic/employment