3.5% ▼ -14.3%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 3.5%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Drummond Cove · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Drummond Cove
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Much higher proportions of people are working or looking for work in Drummond Cove than in most similar areas. About 70.7% of adults are in the labour force, with 64.3% employed full-time. This is well above both the state and national figures.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The unemployment rate is 3.5%, which is a little below the Western Australian and national figures of 5.1%. This sits around the middle for areas of its level.
70.7% ▼ -1.9%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 72.1%
- 2016: 68.4%
- 2021: 70.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
64.3% ▲ +2.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 62.9%
- 2016: 65.1%
- 2021: 64.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Employment is spread across several sectors, with health care and social assistance being the most common at 14.5%, followed by education and training at 11.7% and mining at 11.5%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals and technicians or trades workers are equally common, each making up 18.3% of the workforce. Community and personal service roles follow at 16%.
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 Drummond Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50426/drummond-cove/topic/employment