2016 Census: Victoria
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Census reveals employment in real estate services booming in Victoria The industry including real estate agents saw a bigger increase in employees than any other in Victoria, reveal latest insights into the 2016 Census of Population and Housing. The number of people working in the Rental, Hiring and Real Estate industry increased 23 per cent in 2016. Census Program Manager Bindi Kindermann said the latest Census data contained information on a state-wide scale as well as for local communities. “From how people get to work, to what they are studying, what their jobs are and where people are moving to, this Census information tells us so much about the lives of Victorians,” Ms Kindermann said. “So while people such as real estate agents belonged to the fastest growing industry, the largest industry by employment in the Census was still Health Care and Social Assistance – covering areas such as aged and child care and the health sector. “This industry grew by 17 per cent from 2011 to 2016. Indeed, this was the largest employing industry nationwide. “The data also tells us that in the year leading up to the Census 67,000 people moved to Victoria from around Australia. It was the number one destination of choice in the Census for people leaving South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.” A total of 183,000 recorded that they moved to Victoria in the year leading up the 2016 Census, of which almost two-thirds moved from overseas. Across the state, the Census recorded that 1.8 million used a car to travel to work as either driver or passenger, an increase from 1.67 million in 2011. In addition, 158,000 people used the train (120,000 in 2011), 88,000 walked (84,000 in 2011) and 51,000 caught the tram (43,000 in 2011). In Melbourne, 74 per cent of people recorded that they drove to work – the second lowest proportion after Sydney at 66 per cent – while 13 per cent used public transport, second to Sydney on 21 per cent. The state’s labour force increased from 2.7 million people in 2011 to 2.9 million people in 2016, with over 2.7 million people of those being employed and almost 1.7 million in full-time work. Professionals, the largest broad occupation category in the state and the country, including fields such as the arts and media, business, design and engineering, science and transport, but grew 13 per cent from 2011 to 2016. Census data is available free online. Use one of our easy tools such as QuickStats or Community Profiles to access the latest data for your area or topic of interest. For more information on Victoria in the 2016 Census, follow the link to the Victoria QuickStats page. Information on Melbourne can be found via the following link to the Melbourne QuickStats page. VICTORIA Labour force
Note: The Census and Labour Force Survey both collect labour market information however are designed for different purposes and utilise different collection methods. Differences in the collections mean they are not directly comparable to each other, they are complementary data. Industry
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