5.1% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 5.1%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Bull Creek · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Bull Creek
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A high proportion of professionals defines the working life of Bull Creek, where 37.6% of employees hold professional roles. While the unemployment rate is 5.1%, this is about the same as the state and national figures.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 56.1% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the figures for Western Australia and Australia. Among those employed, 58.7% have full-time roles, a figure slightly below the state average.
56.1% ▼ -8.5%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.3%
- 2016: 57.0%
- 2021: 56.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
58.7% ▼ -1.6%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.6%
- 2016: 58.4%
- 2021: 58.7%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer at 16.0%, followed by education and training at 12.3% and professional and technical services at 11.3%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are very common here, making up 37.6% of jobs. Other significant groups include clerical and administrative workers at 12.8% and managers at 12.4%.
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 Bull Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50201/bull-creek/topic/employment