4.9% ▼ -20.0%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 4.9%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
North Bendigo · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in North Bendigo
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer in North Bendigo, where over a quarter of working residents are employed in these fields. The area has a smaller proportion of people working or looking for work compared to the rest of the state and country.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 55.6% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the 62.4% seen in Victoria. The unemployment rate is 4.9%, about the same as the national figure of 5.1%.
55.6% ▲ +6.8%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.0%
- 2016: 53.4%
- 2021: 55.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
57.6% ▼ -9.4%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 63.6%
- 2016: 59.9%
- 2021: 57.6%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Beyond health care, the most common industries for workers include accommodation and food (9.2%), manufacturing (9.1%), construction (8.6%), and retail trade (8.5%).
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 23.1%. Other frequent roles include labourers (14.6%) and community and personal service workers (14.5%).
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 North Bendigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21963/north-bendigo/topic/employment