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Thursday Island · Urban Centre

Jobs & Industry in Thursday Island

Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.

Health care and social assistance is the biggest employer on Thursday Island, with over a quarter of workers in this field. This community has a strong employment rate, as 63.6% of adults are working or looking for work. Full-time employment is particularly high here compared to the rest of the country.

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📍 Thursday Island, Urban Centre

Where Thursday Island sits — Unemployment rate

4.7% ▼ -11.3%

All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Thursday Island — higher than 50% of areas.

Thursday Island4.7%
4875, QLD 7.3%
Queensland 5.4%
Australia 5.1%

Labour force

Employment, participation and unemployment.

Full-time work is common on Thursday Island, where 64.8% of the workforce is employed full-time, well above the national figure of 58.9%. While the number of adults working or looking for work is a little above the state average, this has fallen slightly since 2011.

Unemployment rate

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4.7% ▼ -11.3%

Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.

Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).

Labour-force participation

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63.6% ▼ -3.5%

Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.

Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.

Employed full-time

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64.8% ▼ -2.7%

Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.

Share of employed people who worked full-time.

Industries

The industries that employ local workers.

The local economy is dominated by the public sector, with health care and social assistance (27%) and public administration and safety (19.8%) making up the largest industries. Education and training also employ a significant 13.9% of people.

Occupations

The kinds of jobs people do.

Professionals make up the largest group of workers at 23.7%. Other common roles include community and personal service workers (16.6%) and clerical and administrative staff (14.9%).

Occupations people work in

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No single group dominates in Thursday Island — Professionals leads at 24%, ahead of Community & personal service (17%) and Clerical & administrative (15%).

Professionals 23.7% Community & personal service 16.6% Clerical & administrative 14.9% Technicians & trades 12.0% Managers 11.5% Labourers 10.1% Sales workers 5.6% Machinery operators & drivers 2.9%

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 Thursday Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315091/thursday-island/topic/employment