5.8% ▼ -17.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 5.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Highgate Hill · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Highgate Hill
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Much higher proportions of adults are working or looking for work in Highgate Hill compared to most similar areas. A large number of residents are employed in professional roles, though the unemployment rate of 5.8% is much higher than in most other areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
While 68.5% of adults are working or looking for work—well above the national figure of 61.1%—the unemployment rate is also much higher than most areas at 5.8%. Full-time employment sits at 56.9%, which is a little below the Queensland figure.
68.5% ▲ +1.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 67.4%
- 2016: 66.4%
- 2021: 68.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.9% ▼ -9.3%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 62.7%
- 2016: 58.2%
- 2021: 56.9%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local workforce is spread across several key sectors, with health care and social assistance (15.6%) and professional and technical services (15.3%) as the most common industries.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are very common here, making up 40.3% of jobs. Managers (13.4%) and clerical and administrative workers (12.1%) represent the next largest groups.
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 Highgate Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31331/highgate-hill/topic/employment