7.1% ▲ +19.9%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 7.1%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Harristown · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Harristown
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Fewer adults are working or looking for work in Harristown than in most similar areas. While a typical person here is likely to have a full-time job, the area faces a higher unemployment rate than the state and national figures.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 52.7% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the Queensland figure of 61.6%. At the same time, the unemployment rate is 7.1%, a little above the national figure of 5.1%.
52.7% ▲ +2.2%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.6%
- 2016: 51.9%
- 2021: 52.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
59.5% ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 63.2%
- 2016: 61.3%
- 2021: 59.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer at 20.6%. Education and training and retail trade both follow at 10.0% each.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The most common jobs are in community and personal service (16.9%) and technicians and trades (16.0%), followed closely by professionals at 15.6%.
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 Harristown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31300/harristown/topic/employment