1.7% ▼ -65.1%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 1.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Metung · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Metung
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the main employer in Metung, where 16.4% of workers are in this field. This is a place where far fewer adults are working or looking for work compared to the rest of the country.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 46.1% of adults are working or looking for work, which is much lower than most areas and far below the national figure of 61.1%. While full-time employment is also far below Victoria's 59.2%, the unemployment rate is very low at 1.7%.
46.1% ▼ -5.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.9%
- 2016: 44.3%
- 2021: 46.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
45.8% ▼ -12.9%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.5%
- 2016: 50.1%
- 2021: 45.8%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local workforce is spread across health care and social assistance (16.4%), construction (10.7%), and accommodation and food services (10.7%). Retail trade and education also make up a fair share of the local jobs.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers are the most common job type at 18.3%, followed by professionals at 17.7%. Technicians and trades people make up 14.8% of the workforce, while community and personal service roles account for 14.6%.
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 Metung [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21673/metung/topic/employment