0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Prevelly · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Prevelly
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A far lower share of people work full-time in Prevelly compared to the rest of the state. While 63% of adults are working or looking for work, the number of full-time roles is far below the national figure. This is matched by a strikingly low unemployment rate of 0%.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 38.6% of residents have full-time jobs, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 60.2%. Despite this, the unemployment rate is 0%, which is well below both the state and national rates of 5.1%.
63.0% ▼ -8.4%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 68.8%
- 2016: 70.5%
- 2021: 63.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
38.6% ▼ -7.5%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.8%
- 2016: 41.5%
- 2021: 38.6%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Local employment is spread across several sectors, with health care and social assistance and accommodation and food services both accounting for 14.9% of jobs. Construction follows at 10.9%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common, making up 27.7% of occupations. Managers account for 16.8%, while technicians and trades workers make up 14.9% of the workforce.
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 Prevelly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51264/prevelly/topic/employment