3.9% ▼ -9.1%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 3.9%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Yarraville · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Yarraville
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Professionals make up 36.3% of the workforce in Yarraville, the largest occupational group in the area. This is a place where many more adults are working or looking for work compared to the rest of the state. Full-time employment is also notably high here, with 65.4% of the workforce in full-time roles.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Working or looking for work is common here, with 74% of adults doing so, which is far above the 61.1% national figure. The unemployment rate is 3.9%, a little below both the state and national figures.
74.0% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 69.0%
- 2016: 70.7%
- 2021: 74.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
65.4% ▼ -4.1%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 68.1%
- 2016: 67.1%
- 2021: 65.4%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The biggest industries for local workers are professional and technical services at 12.9%, followed by health care and social assistance at 11.8% and education and training at 10%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common at 36.3%, followed by managers at 19.5%. Clerical and administrative jobs make up 11.8% 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 Yarraville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22917/yarraville/topic/employment