6.9% ▼ -10.9%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 6.9%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Westminster · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Westminster
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the main employer in Westminster, where 17.1% of the workforce is employed in that sector. The area has a strong proportion of people working or looking for work, though the unemployment rate is much higher than in most similar areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 64.6% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well above the national figure of 61.1%. However, unemployment is a little above the state and national rates at 6.9%.
64.6% ▲ +7.1%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 60.3%
- 2016: 61.6%
- 2021: 64.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
58.5% ▼ -12.1%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 66.6%
- 2016: 60.9%
- 2021: 58.5%
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 (17.1%) and retail trade (10.5%). Other notable sectors include accommodation and food (8.3%) and construction (8.0%).
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The local workforce is spread across several roles, with technicians and trades workers (16.3%) and professionals (16.1%) being the most common. Community and personal service workers also make up 16.0% 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 Westminster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51588/westminster/topic/employment