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Taralga · Urban Centre

Jobs & Industry in Taralga

Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.

Fewer people are working or looking for work in Taralga compared to most similar areas. While the unemployment rate is very low at 2.4%, the proportion of adults in the workforce has dropped significantly over the last decade. This shift is most visible in full-time employment, which has fallen by 20 percentage points since 2011.

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📍 Taralga, Urban Centre

Where Taralga sits — Unemployment rate

2.4% ▼ -69.0%

All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Taralga — lower than 86% of areas.

Taralga2.4%
2580, NSW 4.2%
New South Wales 4.9%
Australia 5.1%

Labour force

Employment, participation and unemployment.

Only 49.8% of adults are working or looking for work, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 58.7%. Full-time employment is also far below the national level at 42.9%, though the unemployment rate remains much lower than most areas.

Unemployment rate

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2.4% ▼ -69.0%

Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.

Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).

Labour-force participation

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49.8% ▼ -27.0%

Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.

Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.

Employed full-time

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42.9% ▼ -31.7%

Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.

Share of employed people who worked full-time.

Industries

The industries that employ local workers.

Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the biggest employer at 19.3%, followed closely by health care and social assistance at 18.5%. Other common industries include education and training, as well as accommodation and food services.

Occupations

The kinds of jobs people do.

The most common jobs are technicians and trades at 16.0%. Professionals and clerical and administrative roles are equally common at 15.1%, with community and personal service workers making up 14.3% of the workforce.

Occupations people work in

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Taralga splits fairly evenly between Technicians & trades (16%) and Professionals (15%), with Clerical & administrative at 15%.

Technicians & trades 16.0% Professionals 15.1% Clerical & administrative 15.1% Community & personal service 14.3% Labourers 13.4% Managers 12.6% Machinery operators & drivers 8.4% Sales workers 5.9%

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 Taralga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122127/taralga/topic/employment