4.8% ▲ +31.6%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 4.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Gabbadah · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Gabbadah
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Mining is the most common industry for workers in Gabbadah, where 15.7% of people are employed in the sector. This sparsely populated area has a much smaller proportion of adults working or looking for work compared to most other regions.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 48.1% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 63.9%. Full-time employment is also much lower than most areas at 49.3%, while the unemployment rate of 4.8% is about the same as the national figure.
48.1% ▼ -1.7%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.9%
- 2016: 48.1%
- 2021: 48.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
49.3% ▼ -11.3%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.6%
- 2016: 50.8%
- 2021: 49.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Mining leads the local workforce at 15.7%, followed by construction at 10.3% and education and training at 9.7%. Retail trade and agriculture, forestry and fishing also make up significant shares at 9.3% and 7.7% respectively.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Technicians and trades workers make up the largest group at 22.3%. Labourers, machinery operators and drivers, and managers also feature strongly, accounting for 15.0%, 13.3% and 11.3% 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 Gabbadah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50525/gabbadah/topic/employment