0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Hamilton Plains · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A 0% unemployment rate marks the job market in Hamilton Plains, where workers are far more likely to be in full-time roles than in the rest of the state. While full-time employment is very high, a smaller proportion of adults are working or looking for work compared to national figures.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is high at 68.8%, which is well above the Queensland figure of 59.0%. However, only 57.4% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the Australian average of 61.1%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
57.4% ▼ -19.0%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
68.8% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Agricultural work is the most common industry here, employing 25% of the workforce. Other common roles are in administration and support (18.8%) and manufacturing (12.5%).
The kinds of jobs people do.
The workforce is evenly split across several roles, with managers, sales workers, machinery operators, and labourers each making up 12.5% of occupations. Professionals account for 9.4% of the local workforce.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Hamilton Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31291/hamilton-plains/topic/employment