4.4% ▲ +0.8%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 4.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Torrens Park · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Torrens Park
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 workers in Torrens Park, where over 20% of the workforce is employed in this sector. The area has a high rate of people working or looking for work compared to most other regions. This creates a workforce that is more active than the state and national averages.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 66.4% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well above the South Australian figure of 60.0%. Full-time employment sits at 56.6%, while the unemployment rate is 4.4%, slightly below the state average.
66.4% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.8%
- 2016: 63.7%
- 2021: 66.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.6% ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.4%
- 2016: 56.2%
- 2021: 56.6%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The largest employment sectors are health care and social assistance at 20.2%, followed by education and training at 12.6% and professional and technical services at 12.4%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation for 38.8% of workers, followed by managers at 19.4% and clerical or administrative staff at 11.9%.
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 Torrens Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41464/torrens-park/topic/employment