3.4% ▼ -39.1%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 3.4%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Tatura · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Tatura
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer in Tatura, where 15.3% of the workforce is employed in that sector. The area has a strong full-time employment rate and an unemployment rate of 3.4%, which is lower than most similar areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 55.3% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure well below the national level of 61.1%. This is a decline from 2011, though the unemployment rate has also fallen to 3.4%, which is a little below the Victorian figure.
55.3% ▼ -6.2%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 58.9%
- 2016: 51.4%
- 2021: 55.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
59.3% ▼ -4.1%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 61.8%
- 2016: 53.7%
- 2021: 59.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local workforce is spread across several key sectors, with health care and social assistance leading at 15.3%, followed closely by manufacturing at 14.4%. Retail trade, construction and education each employ about 8% of the population.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 17.4%. This is followed by labourers at 14.7% and technicians and trades at 14.1%, while managers and community service workers each account for over 12% of jobs.
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 Tatura [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215081/tatura/topic/employment