0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Noorat · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A zero per cent unemployment rate marks Noorat as having a much lower jobless rate than most areas. This suggests a very strong local job market where almost every adult who wants work has found it. This trend is well below both the Victorian and national figures.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 62.8% of adults are working or looking for work, which is a little above the Australian figure. Most of these residents have full-time roles, with 58.4% employed full-time, a figure about the same as the state and national averages.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
62.8% ▼ -10.2%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
58.4% ▲ +13.2%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the main industry here, employing 28.3% of the workforce. Other common sectors include health care and social assistance at 15.7%, and education and training at 11.4%.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers make up the largest group of workers at 29.5%. This is followed by technicians and tradespeople at 16.9%, professionals at 14.5%, and labourers at 11.4%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Noorat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21955/noorat/topic/employment