In Frankston, and more broadly across South Eastern Melbourne, access to work is arguably the most critical issue impacting on our community and feeds into other regional problems like social disadvantage, economic inequity and stagnating productivity.

Frankston’s headline job statistics don’t read well with a consistently documented history of upper-band unemployment and lower-band workforce participation.

But this doesn’t really come as a surprise, given the residents in the City of Frankston have:-
• fewer than 28 local jobs per 100 residents
• access to less than 10% of Melbourne’s job market via a 60-minute public transport commute, and
• only between 10-30% of Melbourne’s jobs reachable by a 45-minute private vehicle commute.

…and these will be even scarcer in the future

Over the next 15 years, Outer Southern Population Growth will continue to outstrip Employment Growth

Looking forward to 2051, Plan Melbourne forecasts that population growth in the South-Eastern Melbourne will average 1.8% year-on-year but regional job growth will languish at 0.5%.

To stabilise our local job market, at current levels, in the face of such rapid population growth Frankston will need to be creating a minimum of 850 additional local jobs each year.

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