3.5% ▲ +42.6%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.5%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Riverside · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Riverside
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Far fewer adults are working or looking for work in Riverside (L) than in the rest of the country. Only 48.1% of adults are in the workforce, a figure that has fallen by nearly 10 points since 2011. This gap is most visible in the number of full-time roles, which are well below the national average.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The proportion of adults working or looking for work is far below the New South Wales figure of 58.7%. Full-time employment is also well below the national average at 52.7%, while the unemployment rate of 3.5% is a little below the Australian figure.
48.1% ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 57.7%
- 2016: 52.8%
- 2021: 48.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
52.7% ▼ -13.3%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 60.8%
- 2016: 62.1%
- 2021: 52.7%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local workforce is spread across several sectors, with health care and social assistance as the most common industry at 14.5%. Construction and education and training both follow at 11.8%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Clerical and administrative roles are the most common occupation at 24.5%. Managers make up 18.2% of the workforce, followed by professionals at 12.7%.
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 Riverside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122115/riverside/topic/employment