6.7% ▼ -8.3%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.7%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Launceston · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Launceston
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer in Launceston, where 22.6% of the workforce is employed in this sector. While more adults here are working or looking for work than in most similar areas, the unemployment rate is much higher than the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 64% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 58.2%. However, the unemployment rate is 6.7%, which is a little above the national rate of 5.1%.
64.0% ▼ -2.1%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 65.4%
- 2016: 57.3%
- 2021: 64.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
57.6% ▼ -6.2%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.4%
- 2016: 61.1%
- 2021: 57.6%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Beyond health care, the biggest industries for local workers are accommodation and food (11.5%), retail trade (9.8%), and education and training (9%).
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 30.2%, followed by community and personal service workers at 14.3% and managers at 14.2%.
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 Launceston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60322/launceston/topic/employment