WA Unemployment Down in August

The trend unemployment rate for Western Australia has moved down slightly from 5.9% in July to 5.8% for August 2019. Nationally, the rate has remained unchanged for August at 5.3% , up from 5.2% (June) and the same 5.3% (July). The state of Victoria increased in August to 4.9% and New South Wales remained at 4.5%.

Some of the key data as released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today include:

• An increase Nationally by 0.1% to 5.3%

• Number of unemployed persons increased by 2,700 persons

• The participation rate increased slightly

• Trend employment increased by 22,000 persons

• Unemployment is South Australia increased to 6.8%

• South Australia has the highest unemployment rate , followed by Tasmania

Data and table above as released by abs.gov.au 19th Sept 2019.