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Table 15: All employees: location by year, 31 December 2003 to 31 December 2019

Table 15: All employees: location by year, 31 December 2003 to 31 December 2019
  December
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Canberra 43469 44511 48825 53442 57403 58162 59988 61811 64810 65244 62672 58476 57576 57614 56981 54983 55603
Sydney 20165 19249 20504 21430 22322 21813 21865 21969 22162 21802 20749 19596 19945 19674 18815 18616 17245
Regional NSW 6692 7011 7464 8182 8736 8919 9052 9084 8980 8743 10093 8987 9337 9195 8842 8591 8513
Melbourne 19047 18902 19548 21593 22050 21814 22083 22322 23581 22493 22789 20884 20952 21525 21037 20809 20156
Regional VIC 2828 2693 2860 3259 3486 3443 3601 3540 3371 3293 3549 3525 3520 4318 4288 4362 4262
Brisbane 10740 10815 11662 11737 12324 11897 12037 12074 12216 12058 11960 11109 11215 11621 11567 11562 11357
Regional QLD 4865 4859 5176 5769 5953 5903 6015 5833 5614 5573 5611 5273 5298 5390 5328 5177 5071
Adelaide 7422 7272 7857 8452 9157 9033 9290 9345 9602 9229 9213 8777 8854 8872 8568 8511 8662
Regional SA 451 434 466 476 458 430 429 413 413 370 464 372 358 350 347 332 369
Perth 6949 6715 7158 7619 7728 7349 7190 6968 6771 6514 6307 5894 6170 6156 5961 5895 5677
Regional WA 978 906 847 884 898 893 868 852 874 1001 1156 976 941 898 855 835 840
Hobart 2575 2505 2776 3036 3276 3473 3594 3541 3531 3500 3698 3408 3418 3386 3276 3253 3184
Regional TAS 669 659 660 683 1130 706 703 644 595 617 590 500 567 596 579 569 509
Darwin 1707 1652 1750 1916 2259 2361 2330 2312 2253 2181 1948 1667 1486 1461 1315 1241 1168
Regional NT 477 408 355 375 434 461 482 499 394 476 466 469 697 763 757 695 708
Overseas 961 972 967 1091 1189 1719 1562 1622 1423 1368 1309 1421 1369 1420 1396 1374 1380
All 129995 129563 138875 149944 158803 158376 161089 162829 166590 164462 162574 151334 151703 153239 149912 146805 144704

Source: APSED