0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Menzies · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Menzies
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A huge proportion of adults in Menzies are working or looking for work, with a notable 70.5% in the local workforce. While the typical job is in farming, the area is currently seeing no one unemployed, making it much more active than the state and national averages.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 70.5% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far above the South Australian figure of 60%. While full-time employment at 53.5% is well below the national average, the unemployment rate is a striking 0.0%.
70.5% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 71.2%
- 2016: 82.7%
- 2021: 70.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
53.5% ▼ -9.0%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 58.8%
- 2016: 65.5%
- 2021: 53.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the dominant industry here, employing 46.5% of the workforce. Other common sectors include education and training at 9.3%, with construction, retail, and hospitality each accounting for 7%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers make up a large share of the local workforce at 44.2%. Other roles are more evenly spread, with labourers, professionals, clerical staff, and machinery operators each representing 9.3% to 11.6% of jobs.
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 Menzies [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40862/menzies/topic/employment