8.3% ▼ -33.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 8.3%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Bentley · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Bentley
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
An unemployment rate of 8.3% is well above the national figure in Bentley, where fewer adults are working or looking for work. Only 55.1% of adults are in the labour force, a figure well below both the state and national averages.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is far below the national average at 46.9%. This helps explain why the unemployment rate is much higher than in most areas, sitting 3.2 percentage points above Western Australia.
55.1% ▲ +24.7%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.2%
- 2016: 46.8%
- 2021: 55.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
46.9% ▼ -10.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 52.1%
- 2016: 49.4%
- 2021: 46.9%
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 for locals at 13.3%, followed closely by accommodation and food services at 12.7% and retail trade at 11.5%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 19.2%. Community and personal service workers follow at 17.6%, while labourers account for 15.9% 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 Bentley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50111/bentley/topic/employment