5.8% ▼ -14.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 5.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Hectorville · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Hectorville
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A higher share of adults are working or looking for work in Hectorville than in most similar areas, reaching 64.2%. This creates a busy local workforce, though it is tempered by an unemployment rate of 5.8%, which is much higher than most other areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 64.2% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well above the state and national figures. Full-time employment sits at 57.4%, roughly the same as the South Australian average.
64.2% ▲ +15.7%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.5%
- 2016: 59.0%
- 2021: 64.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
57.4% ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 60.1%
- 2016: 56.3%
- 2021: 57.4%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for residents at 17.1%, followed by retail trade at 9.8% and professional and technical services at 9.6%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 25.4%, while clerical and administrative positions make up 15.2% 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 Hectorville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40582/hectorville/topic/employment