education at the Advanced Diploma and Diploma Level or Bachelor Degree or higher level. This emphasises the importance of post-school education in gaining employment. Slide 21 Jobless Families with children aged less than 15 years Proportion of Proportion of Proportion of Number of all families couple families lone parent Region jobless that are that are families that families jobless jobless are jobless Hume LGA 3,990 21% 13% 52% Brimbank LGA 3,980 22% 11% 56% Hobsons Bay LGA 1,050 13% 6% 43% Maribyrnong LGA 1,010 15% 8% 45% Melton LGA 1,930 14% 5% 48% Whittlesea LGA 2,460 14% 7% 45% Wyndham LGA 2,650 13% 5% 46% North Western 17,070 17% 8% 49% Melbourne PEA Victoria 66,720 13% 5% 43% Australia 294,880 14% 5% 44% Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2011 At the time of the 2011 Census, almost one in five (17%) families with children (under 15 years of age) in the North Western Melbourne PEA did not have an employed parent, a figure larger than that for Victoria and Australia. However, there was disparity across the region. Some 22% of families with children in the Brimbank LGA were jobless. This differed from the Hobson Bay and Wyndham LGAs, where 13% of families with children were jobless, on par with Victoria.
education at the Advanced Diploma and Diploma Level or Bachelor Degree or higher level. This emphasises the importance of post-school education in gaining employment. Slide 21 Jobless Families with children aged less than 15 years Region Number of jobless families Proportion of all families that are jobless Proportion of couple families that are jobless Proportion of lone parent families that are jobless Hume LGA 3,990 21% 13% 52% Brimbank LGA 3,980 22% 11% 56% Hobsons Bay LGA 1,050 13% 6% 43% Maribyrnong LGA 1,010 15% 8% 45% Melton LGA 1,930 14% 5% 48% Whittlesea LGA 2,460 14% 7% 45% Wyndham LGA 2,650 13% 5% 46% North Western Melbourne PEA 17,070 17% 8% 49% Victoria 66,720 13% 5% 43% Australia 294,880 14% 5% 44% Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2011 At the time of the 2011 Census, almost one in five (17%) families with children (under 15 years of age) in the North Western Melbourne PEA did not have an employed parent, a figure larger than that for Victoria and Australia. However, there was disparity across the region. Some 22% of families with children in the Brimbank LGA were jobless. This differed from the Hobson Bay and Wyndham LGAs, where 13% of families with children were jobless, on par with Victoria.
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