4.8% ▼ -17.5%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 4.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Geographe · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Geographe
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer in Geographe, where 14% of the workforce is employed in this sector. This area has a notably smaller proportion of people working or looking for work compared to the rest of the state.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 53.8% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 63.9%. Full-time employment is also well below the national average at 54.8%, while the unemployment rate is 4.8%.
53.8% ▼ -6.9%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.8%
- 2016: 54.6%
- 2021: 53.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
54.8% ▲ +1.4%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.0%
- 2016: 53.8%
- 2021: 54.8%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local workforce is spread across several sectors, with health care and social assistance leading at 14%, followed by retail trade at 11% and accommodation and food services at 10.9%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Technicians and trades workers make up the largest group at 16.5%, followed closely by professionals at 16.3% and labourers at 12.5%.
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 Geographe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50534/geographe/topic/employment