3.1% ▲ +6.1%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 3.1%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Hopetoun · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Hopetoun
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Mining drives the local economy in Hopetoun, where 40.1% of workers are employed in that sector. This heavy industrial focus shapes daily life, with a strong reliance on technical and trade roles to support the region's primary resources.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 52.8% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the Western Australia figure of 63.9%. However, those who are employed are mostly in full-time roles, and the unemployment rate of 3.1% is a little below the national average.
52.8% ▼ -12.6%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 60.4%
- 2016: 46.9%
- 2021: 52.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
59.9% ▼ -11.7%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 67.8%
- 2016: 61.4%
- 2021: 59.9%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The workforce is heavily concentrated in mining, which employs 40.1% of people. Other common industries include accommodation and food services at 7.6%, and agriculture, forestry and fishing at 6.8%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Technical and trade roles are the most common jobs at 20.9%, followed by machinery operators and drivers at 17.6%. Managers and professionals also make up a significant part of the local workforce, at 14.4% and 13.7% respectively.
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 Hopetoun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50654/hopetoun/topic/employment