3.1% ▼ -12.6%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 3.1%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Dalkeith · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Dalkeith
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Professionals make up nearly half of the workforce in Dalkeith, reflecting a highly skilled local population. While most adults here are employed, full-time work is much less common than in the rest of the state. This creates a distinct employment profile where high-level roles are the norm, but flexible or part-time arrangements are more frequent.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 61.1% of adults are working or looking for work, which is about the same as the national figure. However, the proportion of full-time workers is only 53.3%, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 60.2%. The unemployment rate is 3.1%, slightly lower than the state and national figures.
61.1% ▲ +6.4%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.4%
- 2016: 58.4%
- 2021: 61.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
53.3% ▼ -2.4%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.7%
- 2016: 56.1%
- 2021: 53.3%
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 26.5%, followed by professional and technical services at 15.3%. Other common industries include education and training, retail trade, and mining.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The workforce is dominated by professionals (47.7%) and managers (20.4%). These high-level roles far outweigh those in clerical and administrative work (10.6%) or sales and personal service roles.
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 Dalkeith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50374/dalkeith/topic/employment