8.7% ▲ +9.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 8.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Tirroan · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Tirroan
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
An unemployment rate of 8.7% is well above the national figure in Tirroan, where fewer adults are in the workforce. Only about half of the adults here are working or looking for work, which is far below the Queensland and Australian averages.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 50.7% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure far below the national average. Full-time employment is also well below the state and national figures at 54.4%.
50.7% ▼ -3.8%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.7%
- 2016: 47.4%
- 2021: 50.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
54.4% ▲ +0.2%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.3%
- 2016: 49.2%
- 2021: 54.4%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local workforce is split across several sectors, with agriculture, forestry and fishing and education and training both accounting for 14.7% of jobs. Retail trade follows at 11.8%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Labourers are the most common workers at 17.6%. Managers and machinery operators and drivers each make up 14.7% of the local workforce.
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 Tirroan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32836/tirroan/topic/employment