0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Nomans Lake · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Nomans Lake
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A full-time employment rate of 64.3% is well above the national figure in Nomans Lake. This sparsely populated area sees a huge proportion of its workforce in stable, full-time roles. Most strikingly, the unemployment rate is 0.0%, which is well below the 5.1% seen across both Western Australia and Australia.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
While 62.2% of adults are working or looking for work, which is around the middle for similar areas, those who are employed are much more likely to be in full-time roles than people in the rest of the state.
62.2% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 63.3%
- 2021: 62.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
64.3% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Half of the workforce is employed in agriculture, forestry and fishing, which is the dominant industry here. Wholesale trade is the next most common sector at 21.4%, followed by education and health care at 17.9% each.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The local workforce is heavily weighted toward leadership roles, with managers making up 53.6% of occupations. Community and personal service roles account for 14.3%, while clerical and administrative jobs make up 10.7%.
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 Nomans Lake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51123/nomans-lake/topic/employment