8.3% ▲ +527.8%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 8.3%
Unemployed people as a share of the labour force (aged 15+).
Green Head · Urban Centre
Jobs & Industry in Green Head
Work across the area — who is in the labour force, in which industries and jobs.
Technicians and trades workers make up the largest employment group in Green Head. This sparsely populated area has seen a sharp drop in its workforce, with the proportion of adults working or looking for work falling by 34 percentage points since 2011.
Labour force
Employment, participation and unemployment.
Only 39.1% of adults are working or looking for work, which is far below the national figure of 61.1%. Full-time employment has also fallen since 2011, while the unemployment rate rose to 8.3%, well above the state and national figures of 5.1%.
39.1% ▼ -46.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 73.6%
- 2016: 39.7%
- 2021: 39.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who are in the labour force.
48.5% ▼ -27.4%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 66.8%
- 2016: 45.9%
- 2021: 48.5%
Share of employed people who worked full-time.
Industries
The industries that employ local workers.
The local economy is split across several sectors, with mining as the most common industry at 13.9%. Construction, retail trade, and accommodation and food services all follow closely, each employing around 12% of the workforce.
Occupations
The kinds of jobs people do.
The most common jobs are technicians and trades at 17.8%. Managers and labourers each make up 15.8% of the workforce, followed by machinery operators and drivers at 11.9%.
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 Green Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522026/green-head/topic/employment