5.5% ▼ -12.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 5.5%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Cooktown · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Cooktown
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer in Cooktown, where 19.0% of the workforce is employed in this sector. While full-time work is slightly more common here than in the rest of the country, far fewer adults are working or looking for work compared to the state and national figures.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 50.6% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the Queensland figure of 61.6%. Among those employed, 61.3% are in full-time roles, though the unemployment rate of 5.5% is much higher than in most similar areas.
50.6% ▼ -13.3%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 58.3%
- 2016: 52.3%
- 2021: 50.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
61.3% ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 63.3%
- 2016: 61.7%
- 2021: 61.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Public administration and safety (12.9%) and construction (10.8%) are the next most common industries after health. Education and training (10.6%) and accommodation and food (9.7%) also employ significant shares of the local workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 20.8%. Other common roles include community and personal service workers (13.9%), managers (13.1%), technicians and trades (12.7%), and labourers (12.1%).
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 Cooktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30675/cooktown/topic/employment