3.3% ▼ -20.3%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 3.3%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Blackstone Heights · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Blackstone Heights
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for workers in Blackstone Heights, where 17.8% of employees work in this sector. This is a highly active community for employment, with a much higher proportion of adults working or looking for work than in most similar areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 73.6% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far above the Tasmanian figure of 58.2%. Full-time employment is also strong at 60.6%, while the unemployment rate is 3.3%, a little below the national figure.
73.6% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 74.7%
- 2016: 69.3%
- 2021: 73.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
60.6% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.2%
- 2016: 58.4%
- 2021: 60.6%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Aside from health care, retail trade (11.6%) and education and training (10.4%) are the main industries. Construction and transport and warehousing also employ a notable slice of the local workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
One in five residents is a professional, the most common occupation at 20.2%. This is followed by technicians and trades at 14.8% and clerical and administrative roles at 14.1%.
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 Blackstone Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60052/blackstone-heights/topic/employment