There were around 85,200 jobs (70,166 full time equivalent jobs) and around 26,000 registered businesses in the City of Boroondara in 2023 (data source: Informed Decisions City of Boroondara economic profile).
Boroondara’s four top employing industries (Figure 1) account for almost two thirds of the workers employed in the municipality. Boroondara has particularly high concentrations of jobs in Professional, Scientific and Technical Services and Education and Training relative to Greater Melbourne.
Figure 1: In 2022-23, over two-thirds of the people employed in Boroondara work in one of just four industries. (data source: Informed Decisions City of Boroondara economic profile)
At the 2021 Census, around 30% of the people who worked in Boroondara also lived in Boroondara.
The next most commonly reported places of residence were neighbouring local government areas further out from the central business district such as Whitehorse, Manningham and Monash (data source: Informed Decisions City of Boroondara community profile)
Conversely, around 70% of employed Boroondara residents commuted outside the municipality for work (data source: Informed Decisions City of Boroondara community profile). This rate may change with the shift to more remote working.
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Find out more about our economic profile by looking at data from multiple sources on the Informed Decisions website.