4.5% ▲ +4.4%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 4.5%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
The Gap · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in The Gap
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 The Gap, where 15.7% of the workforce is employed in this sector. This is a high-employment area, with 67.7% of adults working or looking for work, which is well above the national figure of 61.1%.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Working or looking for work is much more common here than in most areas, though the unemployment rate of 4.5% is about the same as the state and national figures. Full-time employment sits at 58.2%, which is around the middle for similar areas.
67.7% ▼ -1.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 68.5%
- 2016: 66.6%
- 2021: 67.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
58.2% ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 60.6%
- 2016: 60.7%
- 2021: 58.2%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local workforce is heavily focused on services, with health care and social assistance (15.7%), professional and technical services (14.9%), and education and training (13.5%) as the top three industries.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 38.5%, followed by managers at 17.2% and clerical and administrative workers at 12.0%.
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 The Gap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32790/the-gap/topic/employment