6.2% ▲ +21.3%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 6.2%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Ingham · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Ingham
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 Ingham, where 15.1% of the workforce is employed in this sector. The local job market is currently struggling, with a far lower proportion of adults working or looking for work than the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 48.9% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the Queensland figure of 61.6%. This is alongside an unemployment rate of 6.2% that has risen slightly since 2011.
48.9% ▼ -7.2%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 52.7%
- 2016: 60.9%
- 2021: 48.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
58.4% ▼ -6.2%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 62.2%
- 2016: 65.7%
- 2021: 58.4%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Local employment is spread across several key sectors. After health care, the most common industries are retail trade at 11.8% and manufacturing at 11.6%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
A large proportion of the workforce are technicians and tradespeople (16.5%) or labourers (14.9%). Community and personal service workers make up another 13.7% of those employed.
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 Ingham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315044/ingham/topic/employment