4.8% ▲ +36.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Heathwood · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Heathwood
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for those working in Heathwood, where 19% of the workforce is employed in this sector. This is a highly active area for employment, with a much larger proportion of adults working or looking for work than in most similar places.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Working or looking for work is common here, with 75.5% of adults active in the labour force, which is far above the national figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment is also high at 63.4%, though the unemployment rate of 4.8% is higher than most areas.
75.5% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 79.4%
- 2016: 75.8%
- 2021: 75.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
63.4% ▼ -14.6%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 74.3%
- 2016: 68.3%
- 2021: 63.4%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Beyond health care, the main industries for local workers are retail trade at 8.5%, professional and technical services at 8% and transport and warehousing at 7.9%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most frequent occupation at 26.4%, followed by clerical and administrative positions at 13.1% and managers at 11.8%.
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 Heathwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31311/heathwood/topic/employment