3.8% ▲ +52.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 3.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Wandering · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Wandering
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Full-time work is very common for the people who are employed in Wandering, with 65.3% of the workforce in permanent roles. While these stable jobs are a highlight, the overall number of adults working or looking for work is far below the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 47.2% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 63.9%. However, the unemployment rate is 3.8%, a little below the national rate of 5.1%.
47.2% ▼ -32.3%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 69.7%
- 2016: 59.2%
- 2021: 47.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
65.3% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 70.6%
- 2016: 69.2%
- 2021: 65.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Work in Wandering is spread across a few key sectors, led by agriculture, forestry and fishing at 21.8%. Manufacturing and mining also make up a large part of the local economy at 19.7% and 19.0% respectively.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Machinery operators and drivers are the most common workers at 27.2%, followed by managers at 19.7% and labourers at 16.3%.
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 Wandering [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51518/wandering/topic/employment