0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Wyaga · Suburb / Locality
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Far more adults are working or looking for work in Wyaga than in most similar areas, with 82.1% in the workforce. This is a high-employment community where the typical worker is in full-time a role, and there is currently no one unemployed.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Working or looking for work is far more common here than in the rest of the state, reaching 82.1%. This strong engagement is reflected in full-time employment, which is 67.4% and well above the national figure of 58.9%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
82.1% —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
67.4% —
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
The local economy is heavily tied to the land, with 80.4% of the workforce employed in agriculture, forestry, and fishing.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Nearly half of the workers are managers (47.8%), while labourers make up 19.6% of the local workforce.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Wyaga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33180/wyaga/topic/employment