3.5% ▼ -67.1%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 3.5%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Alstonville · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Alstonville
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 Alstonville, where 23.5% of the workforce is employed in this sector. The area has a much smaller proportion of full-time workers than most other places, with only 49.7% in full-time roles.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Fewer adults are working or looking for work here than in most areas, at 49.4%, though this is 17 points higher than in 2011. The unemployment rate is low at 3.5%, which is a little below the national figure of 5.1%.
49.4% ▲ +50.2%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 48.2%
- 2021: 49.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
49.7% ▼ -3.5%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 51.6%
- 2016: 54.5%
- 2021: 49.7%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Apart from health care, many people work in education and training (11.7%), retail trade (10.5%), and accommodation and food services (8.2%). Construction also employs 7.8% of the local workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 21.6%. Other common roles include community and personal service workers (15.5%), technicians and tradespeople (14.1%), and clerical or administrative staff (12.1%).
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 Alstonville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114001/alstonville/topic/employment