0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Hail Creek · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Hail Creek
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A massive 21 percentage point gap separates the full-time employment rate in Hail Creek from the rest of Australia. While far fewer adults are working or looking for work compared to the state, those who are employed are overwhelmingly in full-time roles.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 44.2% of adults are working or looking for work, which is much lower than most areas and well below the Queensland figure of 61.6%. However, the unemployment rate is 0.0%, well below both the state and national figures.
44.2% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 68.6%
- 2021: 44.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
80.0% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 83.1%
- 2021: 80.0%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Mining is the dominant employer here at 36.9%, followed by agriculture, forestry and fishing at 24.6% and administrative and support services at 13.8%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The most common roles are machinery operators and drivers at 20.0% and technicians and trades at 18.5%, while managers, professionals and labourers each make up a smaller portion of the 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 Hail Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31284/hail-creek/topic/employment