3.0% ▼ -49.1%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 3.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Gravelly Beach · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Gravelly Beach
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Much fewer people work full-time in Gravelly Beach compared to the rest of the country, where the rate is 6.4 percentage points higher. While about 60.7% of adults are working or looking for work, the area sees a lower proportion of full-time roles than both the state and the nation.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Around 60.7% of adults are working or looking for work, which is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 58.2%. The unemployment rate is 3.0%, which is a little below both the state (5.9%) and national (5.1%) figures.
60.7% ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 58.2%
- 2016: 51.5%
- 2021: 60.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
52.5% ▼ -5.6%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.6%
- 2016: 56.9%
- 2021: 52.5%
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 here at 18.0%, followed by retail trade at 15.8%. Other notable employers include accommodation and food services at 9.9% and manufacturing at 7.5%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The workforce is split evenly between professionals and technicians or trades, who each make up 17.4% of workers. Community and personal service roles account for 12.7%, while sales workers and labourers each represent 12.4%.
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 Gravelly Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60248/gravelly-beach/topic/employment