5.2% ▲ +36.9%
Higher than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 5.2%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Hartley · State Electorate
Jobs & Industry in Hartley
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 Hartley, where 16.6% of the workforce is employed in this field. While the proportion of people working or looking for work is around 60.6%, the area has seen a drop of 6.3 percentage points in this figure since 2011.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
About 60.6% of adults are working or looking for work, which is around the middle for similar areas. Full-time employment sits at 56.7%, while the unemployment rate has risen to 5.2% since 2011.
60.6% ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 66.9%
- 2016: 55.9%
- 2021: 60.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.7% ▲ +0.1%
Lower than 69% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 56.6%
- 2016: 57.2%
- 2021: 56.7%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The most common industries for local workers are health care and social assistance at 16.6%, followed by education and training at 9.9% and retail trade at 9.7%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 27.7%, with clerical and administrative roles following at 14.0%.
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 Hartley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40021/hartley/topic/employment