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healthcare and social assistance from 14% to 14.7% and administration and support services
also increased from 4.4% to 5.1%. Professional, scientific and technical services also slightly
increased from 7.2% to 7.5%. Retail trade remained steady at 12.5% as shown in Table 46 in
Appendix 11.
Notably, healthcare and social assistance is the largest employer generating 3,455 local jobs
in 2020/21 followed by accommodation and food services and retail trade employing 3,240
and 2,929 people respectively.


3.4.3.2 Employment by occupation
.id Community Demographic Resources data has not been updated therefore the statistics for
employment by occupation discussed in section 2.4.3.2.


3.4.3.3 Number of jobs
.id Community Demographic Resources data showed the total number of local jobs fell from
the 2019/20 year to the 2020/21 years from 24,036 jobs to 23,446 jobs. However this was up
from the June 2020 quarter where the job number fell to 22,417 following the initial impacts
from COVID-19. As shown in Figure 25 in Appendix 11.
The June 2020 quarter saw the highest impacts on local job losses in Noosa Shire. Whilst job
numbers improved up to the June 2021 quarter, job numbers were still tracking below pre-
COVID 19 numbers, down from the March 2020 quarter by 505 jobs. Refer to Figures 26 in
Appendix 11.
Place of work
Working from home, where employees were able to, largely continued throughout 2020-2021
with many employees returning to work permanently by mid 2022. However, some employees
have continued to work from home demonstrating the same or better productivity and work life
balance, whilst others are splitting their work week between the office and home. This shift in
the ability for employees to work from anywhere is likely to continue.


3.4.4 Businesses by industry
.id Community Demographic Resources data showed that between 2020 and 2021 there was
an increase in the number of businesses registered in the professional, scientific and technical
services industry up from 925 to 1020 businesses increasing the proportion of business
registered in that industry from 13.4% to 14.4%. The construction industry increased from
1,288 registered business to 1,332 business however the proportion of business registered as
construction was slightly down from 18.7% to 18.4% as shown in Table 47 in Appendix 11.


3.4.5 Tourism sector
In 202/21 the total tourism sales in Noosa Shire was $341.9m, the total value added was
$191.0 million according the .id Community Demographic Resources. This was considerably
down from $463.67 million total tourism sales and $266.97 million value added in the previous
2019/20 year.


3.4.5.1 Visitor nights
According to .id Community Demographic Resources data there were 3,633,959 domestic
visitor nights and no recorded international visitor nights due to international border closures
during the 2020/21 year with 857,545 domestic day trips.

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