4.2% ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 4.2%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Brinsmead · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Brinsmead
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Far more adults are working or looking for work in Brinsmead than in most similar areas, with 72.4% of the adult population in the labour force. This high level of activity is paired with an unemployment rate of 4.2%, which is a little below the Queensland figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 59.8% of the workforce is employed full-time, a figure that is about the same as both the state and national averages. The 72.4% workforce participation rate is far above the national figure of 61.1%.
72.4% ▼ -5.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 76.2%
- 2016: 72.6%
- 2021: 72.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
59.8% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 65.0%
- 2016: 63.8%
- 2021: 59.8%
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 for local workers at 19.0%, followed by education and training at 11.2% and retail trade at 9.7%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most typical occupation here at 25.8%. Other common roles include clerical and administrative work at 13.4%, and technicians and trades at 13.3%.
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 Brinsmead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30377/brinsmead/topic/employment