0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Mitiamo · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Nearly half of all workers in Mitiamo are employed in agriculture, forestry, and fishing. While the area has a very high proportion of adults working or looking for work, full-time employment is far below the national figure.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 67.7% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well above the national figure. However, the 43.1% full-time employment rate is far below the Victorian average, despite an unemployment rate of 0.0% being well below the state and national figures.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
67.7% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
43.1% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the dominant industry here at 48.3%. Other common sectors include health care and social assistance at 12.1%, and manufacturing at 8.6%.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers make up the largest group of workers at 34.5%, followed by labourers at 22.4%. Clerical and administrative roles account for 8.6% of the local workforce.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Mitiamo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21709/mitiamo/topic/employment