5.0% ▼ -34.5%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 5.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Monkland · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Monkland
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Much fewer people are working or looking for work in Monkland than in other similar areas. Only about half of the adults, 52.0%, are in the labour force, which is well below the national figure of 61.1%. This trend is reflected in the low number of full-time roles.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is well below the Queensland average, with only 49.3% of residents in these roles. The unemployment rate is 5.0%, which is about the same as the figures for the state and the nation.
52.0% ▼ -2.1%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 53.1%
- 2016: 50.8%
- 2021: 52.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
49.3% ▼ -16.5%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.1%
- 2016: 51.0%
- 2021: 49.3%
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 here at 15.8%, followed by retail trade at 13.5% and manufacturing at 11.5%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Labourers make up the largest group of workers at 20.0%. Other common roles include community and personal service workers (15.8%) and technicians and trades people (13.5%).
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 Monkland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31881/monkland/topic/employment