0.8% ▼ -81.4%
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Lake Boga · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Lake Boga
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Very few people are out of work in Lake Boga, where the unemployment rate is just 0.8%. While this is among the lowest figures for similar areas, the proportion of adults working or looking for work has fallen to 57.5% since 2011.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is well below the national figure at 53.4%, a drop of 7.3 percentage points since 2011. This mirrors a wider trend in the area, as the share of adults working or looking for work also fell by 8.0 points over the decade.
57.5% ▼ -12.3%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 65.6%
- 2016: 52.7%
- 2021: 57.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
53.4% ▼ -12.0%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 60.6%
- 2016: 57.2%
- 2021: 53.4%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the largest employer at 14.8%, followed by agriculture, forestry and fishing at 10.9%. Other key industries include education and training, retail trade, and manufacturing.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Managers make up the largest group of workers at 17.0%. This is followed by community and personal service workers at 15.9% and professionals at 15.6%.
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 Lake Boga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221039/lake-boga/topic/employment