4.2% ▼ -47.4%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 4.2%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Palm Beach · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Palm Beach
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer in Palm Beach, with 15.6% of the workforce in this field. The area has a high number of adults working or looking for work, though a lower share of these roles are full-time compared to the state and national figures.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Adults working or looking for work make up 65.6% of the population, which is well above the Queensland figure of 61.6%. However, full-time employment is well below the national average at 54.2%, and the unemployment rate is 4.2%.
65.6% ▲ +7.8%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 60.9%
- 2016: 62.1%
- 2021: 65.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
54.2% ▼ -7.4%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 58.6%
- 2016: 58.8%
- 2021: 54.2%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The main industries for local workers are health care and social assistance at 15.6%, and construction at 13.2%. Retail trade (9.5%), education (9.4%), and food and accommodation (8.5%) also employ significant numbers of people.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals are the most common occupation group at 25.2%. Other common roles include technicians and trades at 14.6%, managers at 14.3%, and community and personal service workers at 13.0%.
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 Palm Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32257/palm-beach/topic/employment