2.4% ▼ -69.0%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 2.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Te Kowai · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Te Kowai
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A much higher share of adults are working or looking for work in Te Kowai compared to the rest of the country. Roughly 70% of adults are in the workforce, with an unemployment rate of just 2.4%, which is well below the Queensland figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is a little above the national figure at 61.1%. This helps explain why the unemployment rate is so low, sitting well below the 5.4% seen across Queensland.
69.8% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 70.2%
- 2016: 66.1%
- 2021: 69.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
61.1% ▼ -2.0%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 62.4%
- 2016: 50.9%
- 2021: 61.1%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local workforce is spread across several sectors, with agriculture, forestry and fishing being the most common at 15.9%. Manufacturing follows at 11.9%, while mining and health care both account for 8.7%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Jobs are evenly split across a few key roles, with managers, technicians and trades, clerical staff, and machinery operators each making up 17.5% of the workforce. Professionals account for another 15.1%.
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 Te Kowai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32762/te-kowai/topic/employment