Where do we work? Here’s where the jobs are.

Where are the jobs? 

To help answer this below, I've included three tables.

These are based on cleaned up ABS Census data (it is long story but suffice to say that you cannot blindly compare the 2011 count with the 2016 census – if you do you will get incorrect answers) plus published NIEIR results.

The first shows job locations and growth by capital city/region.

Most jobs growth in our capital cities

In short the figures show that most jobs are in the capitals and the vast majority of the new jobs created over the last five years were in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and across regional Qld and NSW.

Table 1: Job locations and growth by capital/region

*Too hard to geographically base.

Inner City jobs  

Table two shows that inner city locations hold some 20% of the jobs in the five major capitals, and whilst many new jobs in recent years were in inner Sydney, Melbourne and even Adelaide, this doesn’t ring true for Brisbane and especially Perth.

Breaking the jobs statistics down further for the Brisbane region, only 2% of the new jobs over the last five years have been in inner Brisbane.

A big 71% or 41,000 new jobs were located across the middle-ring suburbs (5km to 20km from the GPO) with 27% (15,500 new jobs) in the outer Brisbane suburbs.

Table 2: Inner city job growth

What's happening in Queensland?

The third table shows the job count and change in jobs by local authority across south east Queensland.

Reflecting the middle-ring job surge, Brisbane City tops the ranks, followed by the Gold Coast and then the Sunshine Coast.

Table 3: Job growth across SEQld

About Michael Matusik Michael is director of independent property advisory Matusik Property Insights. He is independent, perceptive and to the point; has helped over 550 new residential developments come to fruition and writes his insightful Matusik Missive