4.3% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 4.3%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Avoca · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Avoca
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for workers in Avoca, where 14.9% of people are employed in this sector. The town has a very low proportion of adults working or looking for work, at just 41.8%, which is far below the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 41.8% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure that has fallen by 12 points since 2011. Full-time employment is also well below the state average at 53.5%, though the unemployment rate of 4.3% is about the same as the national figure.
41.8% ▼ -22.9%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 54.2%
- 2016: 53.2%
- 2021: 41.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
53.5% ▼ -12.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 61.0%
- 2016: 59.2%
- 2021: 53.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The workforce is spread across several sectors, with manufacturing at 13.8% and agriculture, forestry and fishing accounting for 10.4%. Retail trade and transport and warehousing also make up significant shares of the local economy.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Labourers are the most common type of worker at 16.5%, followed closely by community and personal service workers at 15.7%. Managers make up 15.2% of the local 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 Avoca [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215005/avoca/topic/employment