4.0% ▲ +32.3%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 4.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Swanbourne · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Swanbourne
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Professionals make up a huge 42% of the workforce in Swanbourne, marking it as a highly skilled area. A strong proportion of adults are working or looking for work, and the local unemployment rate of 4% is a little below the figures for Western Australia and Australia.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 66.6% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well above the national figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment sits at 57.6%, slightly below the state average of 60.2%.
66.6% ▲ +4.9%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 63.5%
- 2016: 61.6%
- 2021: 66.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
57.6% ▼ -0.7%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 58.0%
- 2016: 59.3%
- 2021: 57.6%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The most common industries for local workers are health care and social assistance at 16.7%, followed by professional and technical services at 15.1%. Education and training also employ 10.6% of the workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Alongside the high number of professionals, managers make up 21.7% of the workforce. Other common roles include community and personal service workers at 12.2% and clerical or administrative staff at 8.8%.
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 Swanbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51421/swanbourne/topic/employment