It's not a mystery that
many people from all over the world are in Australia to fill jobs in the
country's many skill shortages. The most popular state for foreign workers is Western
Australia - which is in dire need for low skilled to skilled workers to
fill in job vacancies to its mining industry boom. However, other states are
also a favorite among workers from overseas, especially the city of Darwin in
the North Territory.
Dubbed as the most
hardworking city in Australia for the year 2013, the capital of the North
Territory ranks the highest in terms of employment rate, workers who work the
longest hours, and the biggest percentage of people working in one single
household. Figures reported by the Australia
Bureau of Statistics show that the city has the highest employment to
population ratio of all of Australia's capital cities.
Darwin also has the highest
population of younger people, with an average age of 33 compared to the
national average of 37. The figures from ABS also show that they are also the
only capital city that has a population of more men over women. Because of
these two facts, the city's potential for employment is higher compared to
other cities who have older residents. On the other end of the spectrum is the
city of Hobart,
that is the least hardworking city in Australia. This is due in part to
their population made mostly of older people and the city's low cost of living
that make it easier for its residents to get by without having to work as much.
Darwin's facts on its population show that because the majority of their
residents are young and male, their potential to work is high due to the
booming industries in construction and mining where male workers are more
needed.
The figures also show
that the North Territory has a significantly high number of migrant residents.
About 72%
of the state's population were born overseas , showing that most of the
residents of the state are immigrants. According to head of the School of
Business at the Charles Darwin University Ram Vemuri, most of the people who go
to Darwin to reside go there for work and not for vacation. Most of its
residents, when they don't find work in the city, they leave. This means that
people actually go to the city to work.
Darwin, the northern
most city of Australia, is in close proximity to South East Asia - providing
the major gateway for foreign workers from the region to the country. Out of
Darwin's migrant residents, the highest percentage of them comes from the UK,
the Philippines, New Zealand, India, Greece, Indonesia, and China. Because of
the city's mining and tourism industries, many of these foreign workers find
work in both sectors, where 8% of the city's residents are actually employed in
the latter sector.
Aside from having the
highest rate of employment, Darwin also has the highest percentage of people working
longer hours every week, with an average of 49 hours. Because of this,
residents also enjoy higher average incomes than the rest of the country.
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About the Author:
Michael Ma
was an assistant to a migration agent in Move Migration, which
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