infographic: albury wodonga jobs (dec 2015)

ALBURY/WODONGA JOBS

December 2015 facts and figures

NATIONAL SNAPSHOT: DEC, 2015

NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE

NATIONAL EMPLOYED PERSONS

NATIONAL PARTICIPATI

ON RATE

5.8%

11.89m 65.2%

8.23m

Full Time

3.67m

Part Time

Unemployment rate has decreased by 0.1% | Employment increased by 27.5k people | Monthly hours worked increased by 2.8m hours to 1,649.9m which equates to a national weekly average of 34 hours worked.

Since November 2015…

SMALL AREA LABOUR MARKETS: ALBURY

27.9k

9.1%

2.3k

People working

Unemploymentrate

People unemployed

West Albury

Lavington

AlburyRegion

EastAlbury

NorthAlbury

South Albury

5.5%

12.5%5

8.9%5

Unreported

13.6%

5.0%5

Unemployment rate

Unemployment rate

Unemployment rate

Unemployment rate

Unemployment rate

“

“Albury unemployment stats peaked in early 2015 and while they remain significantly higher than the national average, they are trending down.

SMALL AREA LABOUR MARKETS: WODONGA

7.1%average

unemployment rate

West Wodonga

Wodonga

6.4%

7.8%

Unemployment rate

Unemployment rate

21.8kTotal Labour

Force 1kPeople

unemployed0.35%DROP in

unemployment since September

2015

“

“Wodonga has experienced an unemployment rate much more in sync with the national average than Albury.

RESOURCESSmall Area Labour Markets (Dec 2015 Quarter): https://docs.employment.gov.au/system/files/doc/other/small_area_labour_markets_-_december_quarter_2015.pdf

Australian Bureau of Statistics:http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/latestProducts/6202.0Media%20Release1Jan%202016

Economy.id:http://economy.id.com.au/albury/unemployment

Trading Economics:http://www.tradingeconomics.com/australia/unemployment-rate

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Zoë WundenbergZoë is the founder and director of the Albury Wodonga Business Community Hub as well as a Career Development Specialist with a Graduate Diploma in Careers Education and Development and owner of Impressability.

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