4.3% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.3%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Brymaroo · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A far higher share of full-time workers live in Brymaroo than in the rest of the country. Full-time employment sits at 80.3%, which is 21 percentage points above the national figure. This creates a workforce that is much more active than in most other areas.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Working or looking for work is common here, with 67.6% of adults active in the labour force. This is well above the Queensland figure of 61.6%, while the unemployment rate is 4.3%, which is about the same as the national level.
4.3% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
67.6% —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
80.3% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing dominate the local economy, employing 62% of the workforce. Other sectors are much smaller, with construction, transport, and other services each making up 5.6% of jobs.
The kinds of jobs people do.
More than half of the local workforce are managers, accounting for 53.5% of all jobs. Technicians and tradespeople make up 12.7%, followed by clerical and administrative workers at 11.3%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Brymaroo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30399/brymaroo/topic/employment