0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Peake · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Peake
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
More than six in ten workers in Peake are employed in agriculture, forestry and fishing. This creates a unique local job market where full-time work is far more common than in the rest of the country.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
A very high 81.4% of the workforce is employed full-time, which is far above the national figure of 58.9%. However, only 51.2% of adults are working or looking for work, and the unemployment rate is well below the state average at 0.0%.
51.2% ▼ -21.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 65.1%
- 2016: 54.4%
- 2021: 51.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
81.4% ▲ +12.9%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 72.1%
- 2016: 75.5%
- 2021: 81.4%
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 67.4% of the workforce. Education and training accounts for another 11.6% of local jobs.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers make up the largest group of workers at 60.5%, while professionals and labourers each represent 14.0% 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 Peake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41125/peake/topic/employment