2.1% ▼ -79.2%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 2.1%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Perthville · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Perthville
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Full-time employment has jumped 17 percentage points since 2011 in Perthville (L), where 65.7% of the workforce now holds a full-time role. This shift has helped the area achieve a very low unemployment rate of just 2.1%. It is now a place where a much higher proportion of adults are working or looking for work compared to most other areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The proportion of adults working or looking for work is 65.5%, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 58.7%. Unemployment is also much lower than most areas at 2.1%, falling 8.1 percentage points since 2011.
65.5% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 63.9%
- 2016: 56.8%
- 2021: 65.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
65.7% ▲ +35.6%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 48.5%
- 2016: 43.6%
- 2021: 65.7%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the main employer at 19.3%, followed by education and training at 11.6% and construction at 10.5%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The most common roles are in community and personal service (17.1%) and professional jobs (16.0%), while technicians and trades make up 15.5% of the workforce.
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 Perthville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122110/perthville/topic/employment