0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Carpendale · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A higher share of adults are working or looking for work in Carpendale than in most similar areas. The area is marked by a very strong employment rate, with an unemployment rate of 0.0% which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
While 65.2% of adults are working or looking for work—well above the national figure of 61.1%—full-time employment is lower than most areas at 55.2%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
65.2% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
55.2% ▼ -2.4%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the most common industry here, employing 27.6% of the workforce, followed by education and health care at 13.8% each.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers make up the largest group of workers at 25.9%, with community and personal service workers representing 15.5% of the local workforce.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Carpendale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30547/carpendale/topic/employment