4.6% ▼ -20.8%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 4.6%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Swan Reach · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Swan Reach
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the main industry for workers in Swan Reach, where 15.6% of people are employed in this sector. This is a small community with a low proportion of adults working or looking for work compared to the rest of the country.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 46.3% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the national figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment is also well below the state average, and the unemployment rate is 4.6%.
46.3% ▼ -11.0%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.1%
- 2016: 46.7%
- 2021: 46.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
52.6% ▲ +12.5%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.7%
- 2016: 53.5%
- 2021: 52.6%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Aside from health care, construction is a major employer at 14.9%. Other common industries include accommodation and food services (9.4%), retail trade (8.4%), and manufacturing (8.1%).
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The most common roles are technicians and trades workers at 16.9%. Managers and professionals both make up 15.3% of the workforce, followed by clerical and administrative staff at 14.3%.
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 Swan Reach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22409/swan-reach/topic/employment