5.6% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 5.6%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Maitland · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Maitland
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Health care and social assistance is the most common industry for workers in Maitland. The town has a small workforce, with only 40.4% of adults working or looking for work, which is far below the national figure.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 40.4% of adults are working or looking for work, a figure that has fallen by 8.5 points since 2011. Full-time employment is also well below the state and national averages at 53.3%, while the unemployment rate is 5.6%.
40.4% ▼ -17.3%
Lower than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 48.8%
- 2016: 46.7%
- 2021: 40.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
53.3% ▼ -3.7%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 55.3%
- 2016: 51.7%
- 2021: 53.3%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Local employment is spread across several sectors, led by health care and social assistance at 15.3% and agriculture, forestry and fishing at 13.3%. Education and training also employ a significant 11.3% of the workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Technicians and trades are the most common workers at 15.9%, followed closely by labourers at 15.6% and community and personal service workers at 15.3%.
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 Maitland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415023/maitland/topic/employment