2.0% ▼ -48.4%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 2.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Pannawonica · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Pannawonica
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 Pannawonica than in the rest of Australia. This is a high-employment area where 80% of adults are in the labour force, and the vast majority of those jobs are full-time.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The unemployment rate is just 2.0%, which is well below the 5.1% figure for both Western Australia and the nation. This stability is reflected in the fact that 72.2% of adults are employed full-time, far above the national average of 58.9%.
80.0% ▼ -5.2%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 84.4%
- 2016: 79.4%
- 2021: 80.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
72.2% ▼ -6.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 77.1%
- 2016: 77.3%
- 2021: 72.2%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Mining is the dominant industry here, employing 66.5% of the workforce. Other smaller sectors include education and training at 9.9%, and accommodation and food services at 5.4%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The local job market is driven by technical roles, with machinery operators and drivers making up 33.5% of workers and technicians and trades accounting for 30.1%. Community and personal service roles follow at 8.0%.
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 Pannawonica [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51198/pannawonica/topic/employment