3.5% ▼ -40.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 3.5%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Victory Heights · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Victory Heights
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Mining is the most common industry for workers in Victory Heights, where nearly 29% of people are employed in the sector. This creates a workforce that is much more active than in other parts of the country, with 73.3% of adults working or looking for work.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is far more common here than in the rest of Australia, at 71.5%. The unemployment rate of 3.5% is a little below the national figure of 5.1%.
73.3% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 69.6%
- 2016: 69.2%
- 2021: 73.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
71.5% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 73.6%
- 2016: 68.8%
- 2021: 71.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Mining leads the local economy at 28.7%, followed by retail trade at 9.2% and construction at 8.2%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Technical and trade roles are the most typical occupation at 22.9%, with machinery operators and drivers also making up a large share at 18.8%.
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 Victory Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51492/victory-heights/topic/employment