CofFEE/URP Employment Vulnerability Index
Introducing the EVI
The Centre of Full Employment and Equity in conjunction with the Urban Research Program (Griffith University) have developed the Employment Vulnerability Index (EVI) for suburbs across Australia. The Employment Vulnerability Index is an indicator that identifies those suburbs that have higher proportions of the types of jobs thought to be most at risk in the current economic climate. The construction of the EVI is explained in the EVI Technical Report (see link below).
The EVI is computed for Capital Cities (2593 metropolitan suburbs) and the suburbs located in the Australian Bureau of Statistics non-Metropolitan regional centres with more than 20,000 residents. In some cases this does not include suburbs in outer areas of regional cities as they are not included as part of the ABS’s urban centre categorisation.
The results cover over 75 per cent of the total Australian population which reflect the high degree of urbanisation in Australia.
The EVI divides suburbs into four categories depending on its EVI score:
EVI risk category
% of Total Suburbs
Red alert - High risk 15.2%
Amber alert - Medium high risk 27.3%
Medium low risk 39.6%
Low risk 17.9%
It should be noted that the underlying modelling used to compute the EVI takes into account both suburb and individual characteristics. As a result, any one person in a Red alert suburb may have little risk of job loss while any one person in a Low risk suburb might, in fact, be very vulnerable to job loss. But in aggregate, we expect the job losses to fall predominantly in the Red and Amber alert suburbs.
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