0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Coonambula · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Coonambula
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A dominant agricultural sector shapes daily life in Coonambula, where over half of the workforce is employed in farming and forestry. While the area has a very low proportion of people working or looking for work, those who are employed are overwhelmingly in full-time roles.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is far more common here than in the rest of the state, reaching 80.6%. This stands in contrast to the local workforce rate, which is just 47% and far below the national figure of 61.1%. Notably, the unemployment rate is 0.0%, well below the national average.
47.0% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 47.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
80.6% —
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 61.9%
- 2021: 80.6%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the primary industry, employing 51.6% of the workforce. Health care and social assistance is the next most common sector at 16.1%, followed by education and training at 12.9%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers make up the largest group of workers at 38.7%. Community and personal service workers and clerical and administrative staff each account for 16.1% of the local workforce.
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 Coonambula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30694/coonambula/topic/employment