Wyong · State Electorate

Jobs & Industry in Wyong

Name: Jobs & Industry in Wyong — 2021 Census
Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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 Wyong, where 17.8% of the workforce is employed. The area faces some employment challenges, with the proportion of adults working or looking for work sitting well below both state and national figures.

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📍 Wyong, State Electorate

Labour force

Employment, participation and unemployment.

Only 55.5% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure much lower than most areas. Full-time employment has fallen by 7.3 percentage points since 2011 to 53.5%, while the unemployment rate has dropped to 5.5%.

Industries

The industries that employ local workers.

Beyond health care, construction is the next biggest employer at 11.6%, followed closely by retail trade at 11.2%. Other significant sectors include accommodation and food services at 7.3% and manufacturing at 7.2%.

Industries people work in

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No single group dominates in Wyong — Health care & social assistance leads at 19%, ahead of Construction (12%) and Retail trade (12%).

Health care & social assistance 17.8% Construction 11.6% Retail trade 11.2% Accommodation & food 7.3% Manufacturing 7.2% Education & training 7.0% Public administration & safety 6.0% Transport & warehousing 4.4% Professional & technical 4.1% Other services 4.1%

Occupations

The kinds of jobs people do.

The local workforce is split fairly evenly across several roles, with professionals at 15.4% and technicians and trades at 15.3%. Community and personal service workers make up 14.7%, while clerical and administrative staff and labourers account for 12.8% and 11.5% respectively.

Occupations people work in

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Wyong splits fairly evenly between Professionals (16%) and Technicians & trades (16%), with Community & personal service at 15%.

Professionals 15.4% Technicians & trades 15.3% Community & personal service 14.7% Clerical & administrative 12.8% Labourers 11.5% Managers 10.5% Sales workers 9.9% Machinery operators & drivers 8.1%

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 Wyong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10093/wyong/topic/employment

Wyong	5.5%
Greater Sydney	5.1%
New South Wales	4.9%
Australia	5.1%

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