14.3% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 14.3%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Elizabeth Park · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Elizabeth Park
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A gap of 16 percentage points separates the proportion of adults working or looking for work in Elizabeth Park from the national figure. This is a struggling job market where the unemployment rate is 14.3%, which is among the highest for areas of this size across the country.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 44.9% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure far below the South Australian average of 60%. Full-time employment is also well below the national rate, with just 52.3% of the workforce in full-time roles.
44.9% ▲ +5.2%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.7%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 44.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
52.3% ▼ -7.0%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.2%
- 2016: 56.2%
- 2021: 52.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The most common industries for local workers are health care and social assistance at 14.9%, followed by retail trade at 12.1% and manufacturing at 10.8%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Labourers make up the largest group of workers at 21.2%, while 15.8% work in community and personal services and 13.5% are machinery operators and drivers.
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 Elizabeth Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40402/elizabeth-park/topic/employment