2.6% ▼ -15.5%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 2.6%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Dulong · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Dulong
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A full-time employment rate of 55.3% is well below the national figure in Dulong. While few people are out of work, the area has a lower proportion of people in full-time roles compared to most other similar places.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 59.5% of adults are working or looking for work, which is slightly lower than the Queensland and Australian figures. The unemployment rate is 2.6%, which is a little below the state and national levels.
59.5% ▲ +3.9%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.2%
- 2016: 57.0%
- 2021: 59.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
55.3% ▼ -10.6%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.8%
- 2016: 56.4%
- 2021: 55.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry here, employing 19.1% of the workforce. Education and training follows at 9.1%, while construction and food and accommodation both sit at 8.2%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 26.1%. Clerical and administrative work accounts for 15.2%, followed by technicians and trades at 14.9% and managers at 13.1%.
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 Dulong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30889/dulong/topic/employment