3.7% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 3.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Spring Gully · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Spring Gully
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Professional roles are the most common occupation in Spring Gully, making up 30% of the local workforce. This focus on high-skilled work exists alongside a local job market where fewer adults are working or looking for work compared to the state average.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 58.9% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the Victorian figure of 62.4%. Full-time employment is also low at 54.5%, sitting well below both the state and national averages.
58.9% ▼ -4.9%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 62.0%
- 2016: 58.7%
- 2021: 58.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
54.5% ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.5%
- 2016: 56.3%
- 2021: 54.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry at 19.9%, followed by education and training at 13.9%. Other main employers include retail trade at 9.5% and construction at 8.1%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up 30% of the workforce, followed by community and personal service workers at 12.3%. Managers, clerical staff, and technicians each represent about 12% of the local jobs.
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 Spring Gully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22320/spring-gully/topic/employment