6.5% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 6.5%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Charters Towers · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Charters Towers
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Education and training is the biggest employer in Charters Towers, with 16.8% of workers in this field. While a high share of the workforce holds full-time roles, the overall number of adults working or looking for work is much lower than the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Full-time employment is well above the national figure at 62.5%, though this fell slightly since 2011. However, only 50.8% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the Queensland rate of 61.6%.
50.8% ▼ -7.9%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 55.2%
- 2016: 56.1%
- 2021: 50.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
62.5% ▼ -2.7%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 64.2%
- 2016: 64.1%
- 2021: 62.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Aside from education, health care and social assistance (15.1%), mining (11.0%), and retail trade (10.8%) are the main industries where people in the area find work.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 17.9%, followed by technicians and trades at 14.3% and community and personal service workers at 13.6%.
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 Charters Towers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314007/charters-towers/topic/employment