3.1% ▼ -35.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 3.1%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Yarragon · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Yarragon
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the top employer in Yarragon, where 16% of workers are in this sector. The local workforce is smaller than in other areas, as fewer adults are working or looking for work compared to the state and national figures.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 58.8% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the 62.4% seen across Victoria. Full-time employment is also well below the national figure at 55.5%, though the unemployment rate of 3.1% is a little lower than the state and national averages.
58.8% ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.3%
- 2016: 58.7%
- 2021: 58.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
55.5% ▼ -5.8%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 58.8%
- 2016: 56.3%
- 2021: 55.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The most common industries for local workers are health care and social assistance at 16%, followed by construction at 13.1% and agriculture, forestry and fishing at 9.7%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Technicians and trades workers make up the largest group at 15.7%, while community and personal service workers account for 15.1% of the local workforce.
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 Yarragon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22913/yarragon/topic/employment