Estimated people employed as Primary School Teachers in the Capital Region, the Illawarra, and the Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven, from Jobs and Skills Australia's monthly nowcast, to October 2026.
Wollongong has no estimate of its own. Figures add up three ABS regions: Capital Region (SA4 101), Illawarra (SA4 107) and Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven (SA4 114).
- Primary School Teachers employed in the Capital Region, the Illawarra, and the Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven
- 4,224
- down 5.9% on a year earlier
- October 2026 · JSA estimate
- Over five years
- −13.4%
- 4,880 in Oct 2021 → 4,224
- Each October
- Across New South Wales
- 49,213
- down 3.4% on a year earlier
- October 2026 · JSA estimate
Jobs and Skills Australia's nowcast is experimental: its figures are model estimates of the people employed in each occupation, not a count of them, and each monthly release revises the months before it.
Source: Jobs and Skills Australia, Nowcast of Employment by Region and Occupation (NERO), October 2026, CC BY 4.0. Experimental estimates.
ViewJobs analysis of the Jobs and Skills Australia Nowcast of Employment by Region and Occupation: Figures for this region are the sum of the SA4 market areas listed. Capital city, state and national figures are sums of SA4 regions.