2.0% ▼ -31.9%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Tolmie · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Tolmie
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Retail trade is the most common industry for workers in Tolmie, where 15% of the local workforce is employed in that sector. The area has a relatively small proportion of adults working or looking for work, at 52.8%, which is well below the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 52.8% of adults are working or looking for work, a rate well below the national figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment is also much lower than most areas at 50.4%, though the unemployment rate is very low at 2.0%.
52.8% ▼ -17.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 64.0%
- 2016: 49.5%
- 2021: 52.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
50.4% ▼ -4.4%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.8%
- 2016: 44.0%
- 2021: 50.4%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Retail trade is the most common industry for 15.0% of workers, followed by education and training at 12.1% and health care and social assistance at 9.6%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals and labourers are equally common occupations here, each making up 16.3% of the workforce, while technicians and trades account for 15.0%.
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 Tolmie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22526/tolmie/topic/employment