3.5% ▼ -5.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 3.5%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Brookfield · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Brookfield
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A strong professional workforce shapes the daily life of Brookfield, where 40.2% of workers are in professional roles. This high concentration of skilled jobs is reflected in a stable employment market with an unemployment rate of 3.5%, which is a little below the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 61.3% of adults are working or looking for work, which is about the same as the Queensland and Australian figures. Full-time employment sits at 56.5%, a little below the state average of 59.0%.
61.3% ▼ -2.4%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 62.8%
- 2016: 61.7%
- 2021: 61.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.5% ▼ -3.1%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 58.3%
- 2016: 55.8%
- 2021: 56.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Professional and technical services are the most common industry for locals at 17.4%, followed by health care and social assistance at 15.2% and education and training at 11.7%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up 40.2% of the workforce, while managers account for another 23.5%. Clerical and administrative roles are the next most common at 11.5%.
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 Brookfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30386/brookfield/topic/employment