1.9% ▼ -69.8%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 1.9%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Mount Torrens · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Mount Torrens
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for those employed in Mount Torrens, where 14.2% of workers are in this field. The area has a very strong connection to the workforce, with more adults working or looking for work than in most similar places.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 66.8% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well above the national figure of 61.1%. Unemployment is very low at 1.9%, far below the South Australian rate of 5.4%.
66.8% ▼ -4.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 69.8%
- 2016: 66.3%
- 2021: 66.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
54.3% ▼ -10.3%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 60.5%
- 2016: 55.1%
- 2021: 54.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Employment is spread across several sectors; after health care, the largest shares are in agriculture, forestry and fishing (12.6%) and construction (11.1%).
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 21.1%, followed closely by managers and technicians or trades, who each make up 19% of the 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 Mount Torrens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40964/mount-torrens/topic/employment