FACTBase Bulletin 49 - The Dilemma in Sub-Regional Commuting: Matching Resident Jobs Skills to Workplace Location

This Bulletin is part of the Committee for Perth’s Get a Move On! project. The report examines the job skills matching within metropolitan sub-regions by mapping where people live and where they work.

Key Findings

• In the Greater Perth region, the central sub-region has the highest number of workers overall, with a slight preference for manager, professionals and clerical and administrative workers.
• Sales, machinery operators and labourers are relatively well distributed throughout the region.
• In terms of locations of where the workers in Greater Perth live, most people live in the outer sub-regions and travel to the central sub-region.
• By occupation, it is slightly less consistent where people live.
• In terms of jobs skills mismatch, the outer sub-regions act as residential areas for workers in the Central sub-region.
• The Peel sub-region has the best skills-jobs match out of the outer sub-regions as substantially more people live and work within the sub- region rather than travelling to the Central sub-region.