4.7% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 4.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Thursday Island · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Thursday Island
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Full-time work is far more common on Thursday Island than in most other areas. This is a highly active workforce where 63.6% of adults are working or looking for work, which is higher than the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 64.8% of workers are employed full-time, a figure well above both the Queensland and Australian averages. While 63.6% of adults are in the workforce, the unemployment rate is 4.7%, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
63.6% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 62.9%
- 2016: 58.8%
- 2021: 63.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
64.8% ▼ -2.1%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 66.2%
- 2016: 69.1%
- 2021: 64.8%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer at 27%, followed by public administration and safety at 19.8%. Education and training also makes up a large part of the local economy at 13.9%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 23.7%. Other common roles include community and personal service workers at 16.6% and clerical and administrative staff at 14.9%.
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 Thursday Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32823/thursday-island/topic/employment