1.7% ▼ -0.4%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 1.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Tom Price · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Tom Price
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A huge proportion of the workforce is active in Tom Price, where 75.9% of adults are working or looking for work. This is among the highest levels seen in similar areas. The local job market is very strong, with full-time employment well above the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Adults working or looking for work are far more common here than in the rest of Australia. This high activity is mirrored by a very low unemployment rate of 1.7%, which is well below the state and national figures of 5.1%.
75.9% ▲ +2.2%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 74.3%
- 2016: 75.6%
- 2021: 75.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
67.2% ▼ -13.9%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 78.0%
- 2016: 72.0%
- 2021: 67.2%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Mining is the dominant industry for the town, employing 46.9% of the workforce. Education and training is the next biggest sector at 10.3%, followed by health care and social assistance at 5.9%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Technical and manual roles dominate the local workforce, with machinery operators and drivers (24.3%) and technicians and trades (24.0%) being the most common occupations. Professionals make up 11.6% of workers.
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 Tom Price [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51456/tom-price/topic/employment