6.7% ▼ -37.3%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 6.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Imbil · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Imbil
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Far fewer adults are working or looking for work in Imbil than in most similar areas, with only 46.2% active in the labour force. This suggests a community where a large number of people are not employed, alongside an unemployment rate of 6.7% which is a little above the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is well below the Queensland figure at 51.7%. This is consistent with the overall low number of adults working or looking for work, which is 15 percentage points lower than both the state and national averages.
46.2% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.8%
- 2016: 46.7%
- 2021: 46.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
51.7% ▼ -10.5%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.8%
- 2016: 55.3%
- 2021: 51.7%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for workers here at 12.4%, followed closely by construction at 10.9% and agriculture, forestry and fishing at 10.6%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Technicians and trades workers make up the largest group of employees at 16.0%. Managers and labourers also feature strongly, accounting for 15.2% and 14.2% of the local workforce respectively.
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 Imbil [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31387/imbil/topic/employment