6.4% ▼ -8.2%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 6.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Port Germein · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Port Germein
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Far fewer adults are working or looking for work in Port Germein than in most similar areas. Only 41.8% of adults are in the labour force, which is far below the South Australian figure of 60%. This is a small workforce where the unemployment rate of 6.4% is much higher than in most other similar places.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 41.8% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure far below the national average. Full-time employment sits at 55.4%, which is well below the Australian figure of 58.9%.
41.8% ▼ -6.9%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.9%
- 2016: 41.6%
- 2021: 41.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
55.4% ▼ -1.2%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.1%
- 2016: 57.3%
- 2021: 55.4%
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 at 14.6%, followed by construction at 12.3% and manufacturing at 11.5%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The most common jobs are in community and personal service (18.5%) and as machinery operators and drivers (17.7%). Managers make up 16.9% 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 Port Germein [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41196/port-germein/topic/employment