6.2% ▲ +219.6%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 6.2%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Fishery Falls · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Fishery Falls
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Much higher full-time employment than most similar areas defines the workforce in Fishery Falls, where 66.7% of workers hold full-time roles. While many people here have stable full-time jobs, the overall number of adults working or looking for work is quite low.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 52.7% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the national figure of 61.1%. At the same time, the unemployment rate is 6.2%, slightly above the Australian average of 5.1%.
52.7% ▼ -15.7%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 62.5%
- 2016: 61.0%
- 2021: 52.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
66.7% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 66.4%
- 2016: 61.2%
- 2021: 66.7%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local economy is split evenly between agriculture, forestry and fishing and health care and social assistance, both at 15.6%. Education and training also employ a significant 13.3% of the workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Technicians and trades workers are the most common group at 22.2%. Managers and professionals both make up 20% 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 Fishery Falls [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31043/fishery-falls/topic/employment