0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Wattle Range · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Wattle Range
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
More adults are working or looking for work in Wattle Range than in most similar areas. This is a high-employment region where 72.2% of the workforce is employed full-time, a figure far above the national average.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Working or looking for work is common here, with 73.1% of adults active in the labour force, which is far above the South Australian figure of 60%. This high activity is matched by a very low unemployment rate of 0.0%, well below the national figure of 5.1%.
73.1% ▼ -1.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 74.3%
- 2016: 79.3%
- 2021: 73.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
72.2% ▼ -6.2%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 77.0%
- 2016: 79.5%
- 2021: 72.2%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local economy is dominated by agriculture, forestry and fishing, which employs 52.8% of the workforce. Other major industries include manufacturing at 16.7% and retail trade at 13.9%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Over half of the workforce are managers, making up 58.3% of all jobs. This is followed by sales workers at 19.4%, while professionals and labourers each account for 13.9% of occupations.
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 Wattle Range [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41552/wattle-range/topic/employment