4.4% ▼ -40.8%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 4.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Safety Beach · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Safety Beach
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
More people in Safety Beach are working or looking for work now than in 2011. While 59.4% of adults are active in the labour force, the proportion of full-time roles has dropped significantly to 53.0%. This shift reflects a community where more people are employed, but fewer are in full-time positions.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The number of adults working or looking for work rose 8.8 points since 2011 to reach 59.4%. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate fell 3.1 points to 4.4%, which is about the same as the national figure.
59.4% ▲ +17.4%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 50.6%
- 2016: 55.9%
- 2021: 59.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
53.0% ▼ -13.3%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 61.1%
- 2016: 56.2%
- 2021: 53.0%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Local employment is spread across several sectors, with education and training (14.3%) and health care and social assistance (14.1%) being the most common industries.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most frequent at 23.5%, followed by managers at 14.5% and technicians and trades workers at 14.3%.
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 Safety Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121100/safety-beach/topic/employment