10.5% ▲ +27.5%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 10.5%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Emu Heights · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Emu Heights
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A much higher unemployment rate than the state average marks the workforce in Emu Heights. While 65.5% of adults are working or looking for work, the typical person here is less likely to have a full-time job compared to most other areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The unemployment rate here is 10.5%, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 5.9%. This helps explain why full-time employment is well below the national average at 50.6%.
65.5% ▼ -0.8%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 66.1%
- 2016: 67.8%
- 2021: 65.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
50.6% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.0%
- 2016: 64.8%
- 2021: 50.6%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for local workers at 19.1%, followed by retail trade at 13.5% and manufacturing at 10.1%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Community and personal service workers and labourers are the most common roles, each making up 20.2% of the workforce, while professionals account for 18.0%.
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 Emu Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60190/emu-heights/topic/employment