10.0% ▲ —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 10.0%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Buchanan · Suburb / Locality
Jobs & Industry in Buchanan
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Full-time work is the norm for 97% of employed people in Buchanan. This creates a workforce that is far more likely to be in full-time roles than the national figure, though the area faces an unemployment rate of 10% which is well above the territory average.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Around 66.7% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well above the national figure of 61.1%. While most who have jobs are full-time, the unemployment rate is among the highest for similar areas.
66.7% → 0.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 66.7%
- 2016: 95.7%
- 2021: 66.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
97.0% ▲ +3.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 94.0%
- 2016: 81.8%
- 2021: 97.0%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Every single person employed in the area works in agriculture, forestry, and fishing.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Over half of the workforce are labourers, while about 24.2% work as managers and 9.1% are professionals.
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 Buchanan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70041/buchanan/topic/employment