3.1% ▼ -25.9%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 3.1%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Armstrong Beach · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Armstrong Beach
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Far more people hold full-time jobs in Armstrong Beach than in most similar areas. The local workforce is strong, with 63.8% of residents employed full-time and an unemployment rate that has fallen to a very low 3.1%.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Adults working or looking for work make up 60.0% of the population, which is slightly below the national figure of 61.1%. This is an increase of 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
60.0% ▲ +6.3%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 56.4%
- 2016: 57.4%
- 2021: 60.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
63.8% ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 61.2%
- 2016: 69.6%
- 2021: 63.8%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Mining is the most common industry for local workers at 16.2%, followed by transport and warehousing at 13.2% and health care and social assistance at 10.6%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
A quarter of the workforce are machinery operators and drivers, which helps explain the high number of people working in mining and transport. Technicians and tradespeople make up another 18.5%.
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 Armstrong Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321005/armstrong-beach/topic/employment