2.8% ▲ —
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Boston · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Boston
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
More adults in Boston (L) are working or looking for work than in 2011, with this figure rising 12 percentage points to 58.0%. While employment has grown, the area maintains a very low unemployment rate of 2.8%, which is much lower than most similar areas.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
The number of adults working or looking for work is well below the national figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment sits at 56.8%, a figure that has barely changed since 2011.
58.0% ▲ +25.2%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 46.3%
- 2016: 42.2%
- 2021: 58.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
56.8% ▼ -0.6%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 57.1%
- 2016: 53.2%
- 2021: 56.8%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Health care and social assistance is the largest employer at 17.0%, followed by agriculture, forestry and fishing at 14.2% and construction at 10.8%.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
Professional roles are the most common occupation at 19.9%, while clerical and administrative work accounts for 15.9% of the local workforce.
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 Boston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422010/boston/topic/employment