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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Business
Michael Parris

The graph that shows how the Hunter jobs market has shifted

A welder at the Forgacs shipyard in Carrington in 2011, when the Hunter's manufacturing sector employed more than 26,000 people. File picture

The health care and social assistance industry now accounts for one in six jobs in the Hunter, while new Australian Bureau of Statistics figures demonstrate the decline in manufacturing.

A Newcastle Herald analysis of ABS 2021 Census data shows health care and social assistance jobs now account for 17 per cent of the region's workforce, up from 13 per cent in 2011.

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