4.7% ▲ +14.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 4.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Fitzgibbon · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Fitzgibbon
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 Fitzgibbon, with 21.2% of workers in the field. This is a highly active workforce where 69.3% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure well above the national and state levels.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Far more adults are working or looking for work here than in most areas, sitting 8.2 percentage points above the Australian figure. The unemployment rate is 4.7%, which is about the same as the state and national levels.
69.3% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 65.5%
- 2016: 69.4%
- 2021: 69.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
59.8% ▼ -15.8%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 71.0%
- 2016: 67.0%
- 2021: 59.8%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Beyond the large health care sector, the most common industries for local workers are retail trade and professional services, both at 8.7%. Transport and warehousing also employ 8.0% of the workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 25.5%, followed by clerical and administrative work at 15.9%. Community and personal service roles make up 14.2% 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 Fitzgibbon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31045/fitzgibbon/topic/employment