10.2% ▲ +154.6%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 10.2%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Collarenebri · Urban Centre
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
A gap of 29 percentage points separates Collarenebri from the national average in the proportion of adults working or looking for work. While full-time employment has climbed to 64.3%, the local unemployment rate is now 10.2%, which is well above the national figure.
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 32.4% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure that is far below the New South Wales average and has fallen since 2011. This comes despite a rise in full-time work to 64.3% and an unemployment rate that has climbed to 10.2%.
10.2% ▲ +154.6%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
32.4% ▼ -18.5%
Lower than 94% of urban centre areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
64.3% ▲ +20.5%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer at 20.4%, followed closely by education and training at 19.4%. Other main industries include public administration and safety at 12.2% and agriculture, forestry and fishing at 10.2%.
The kinds of jobs people do.
Community and personal service workers make up the largest group at 27.6%. Labourers are the second most common occupation at 16.3%, while professionals and machinery operators both account for 11.2% of the workforce.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Jobs & Industry in Collarenebri [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122036/collarenebri/topic/employment