0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Pine Creek · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A remarkably high employment rate defines Pine Creek, where the unemployment rate is well below the national figure. Around 60.9% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure that sits around the middle for its level. This creates a stable job market where the vast majority of the workforce is in steady employment.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Unemployment is at 0.0%, which is well below both Queensland and Australia. About 59.0% of the workforce is employed full-time, a result that is about the same as the state and national figures.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
60.9% ▼ -12.4%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
59.0% ▼ -6.6%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for local workers at 18.9%, followed closely by agriculture, forestry and fishing at 16.4%. Retail trade employs 8.2% of the population.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Technicians and trades workers and labourers are the most common roles, each making up 18.0% of the workforce. Machinery operators and drivers also feature strongly at 13.9%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Pine Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32323/pine-creek/topic/employment