0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Grass Patch · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Grass Patch
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A far higher proportion of adults are working or looking for work in Grass Patch than across the rest of the country. This is a highly active workforce where 78.3% of adults are in the labour force, which is 17 percentage points above the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is much higher than most areas at 69.4%, while the unemployment rate is well below the state and national figures of 5.1% at 0.0%.
78.3% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 71.7%
- 2016: 68.7%
- 2021: 78.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
69.4% ▼ -2.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 71.3%
- 2016: 66.2%
- 2021: 69.4%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The vast majority of local jobs are in agriculture, forestry and fishing, which accounts for 79.2% of the workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Over half of workers are managers, making up 55.6% of the local workforce, followed by 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 Grass Patch [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50577/grass-patch/topic/employment