7.8% ▲ +145.4%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 7.8%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Swan Reach · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Swan Reach
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Only 19.9% of adults in Swan Reach are working or looking for work, a figure far below the national average. This low activity level is coupled with an unemployment rate of 7.8%, which is a little above the state and national figures.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
While full-time employment sits at 58.0%, which is about the same as the national figure, the share of adults in the workforce has fallen by 52 points since 2011. Unemployment has also risen by 4.6 points over that same period.
19.9% ▼ -72.3%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 72.0%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 19.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
58.0% ▼ -8.9%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 63.7%
- 2016: 52.0%
- 2021: 58.0%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
Work in the area is spread across a few key sectors, with accommodation and food (24.0%), agriculture and forestry (22.0%), and education and training (22.0%) being the most common.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The most frequent roles are labourers at 22.0%, followed by managers and professionals who each make up 18.0% 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 Swan Reach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422053/swan-reach/topic/employment