Shelby County One-Year Industry Employment Change

Total One-Year Employment Growth in Shelby County

From the industries (4-digit NAICS) in the area, the Private households industry has grown the most with 173 jobs added during the time period. These new jobs in the Private households industry makes up 13.8 percent of the total growth in Shelby County.

Top 5 Industries
1. Private households (173 new jobs)
2. Limited-service eating places (82 new jobs)
3. Services to buildings and dwellings (79 new jobs)
4. Grocery and Related Product Wholesalers (77 new jobs)
5. Clothing stores (61 new jobs)

From the 110 industries (4-digit NAICS) with sufficient data reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in each quarter, 46 described an expansion of jobs throughout the time period, while 61 industries reported a drop in employment.

In Shelby County, Alabama, the total number of workers for all sectors has increased by 262 jobs from mid-2005 to mid-2006.

Total One-Year Employment Decline in Shelby County

Of the area's industries (4-digit NAICS), the Employment services industry has lost the most employment with a total loss of 345 jobs during the time period. The jobs lost in the Employment services industry make up 28.0 percent of the jobs lost during the period in Shelby County, Alabama.

Top 5 Industries
1. Employment services (345 jobs lost)
2. Plastics product manufacturing (157 jobs lost)
3. Foundries (108 jobs lost)
4. Professional and similar organizations (70 jobs lost)
5. Gasoline stations (53 jobs lost)

Total industry employment has increased by 0.5 percent from the reported values in 2005. These values are less than growth in Alabama, which experienced a gain of 2.0 percent from the 2nd Quarter of 2005. The gains felt were less than than the gain seen for the United States of 2.0 percent.

Shelby County One-Year Percentage Growth in Employment

The Private households industry has seen the largest percentage job growth, expanding by 107.7 percent from the 2nd quarter of 2005 to the 2nd quarter of 2006. This industry sector in Shelby County has added employment faster than the industry job growth experienced in Alabama, where it saw a loss of 2.1 percent. The Private households industry in Shelby County outpaced the US in terms of percent growth of industry employment. During this period, the US gained 1.9 percent of the industry employment.

Top 5 Industries
1. Private households (107.7 percent gain)
2. Clothing stores (80.5 percent gain)
3. Lumber and const. supply merchant wholesalers (73.4 percent gain)
4. Special food services (43.4 percent gain)
5. Sporting goods and musical instrument stores (40.9 percent gain)

Shelby County One-Year Percentage Decline in Employment

The Taxi and limousine service industry has seen the largest percentage drop in employment, losing 28.8 percent of the jobs from 2005 to 2006. These have declined faster than the industry has seen in the Alabama, where the it saw a loss of 4.8 percent. The losses in the Taxi and limousine service industry in Shelby County outpaced the losses of nation as a whole in the industry. In this time period, the nation gained 4.2 percent in terms of employment in the Taxi and limousine service industry.

Top 5 Industries
1. Taxi and limousine service (28.8 percent decline)
2. Professional and similar organizations (27.9 percent decline)
3. Employment services (22 percent decline)
4. Investigation and security services (20 percent decline)
5. Consumer goods rental (19.9 percent decline)





About: This report is part 1 of 6 in the eCanned.com Industry Analysis Series.

Datasource: U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). Private Sector Employment Only.

Income and Poverty in Shelby County, Alabama

The rate of poverty in Shelby County, Alabama has declined by 0.4 percent since the 2000 rates, moving from 6.3 percent to 5.9 percent.

Compared to counties across the United States, Shelby County reported a very high median income for households of $64,865 (2005 Dollars). This median is 38.4 percent higher than the median in Alabama of $39,938 and the median household income is 24.3 percent higher than the median in the US, which is $49,133.

Evaluated with other counties (or parishes) across the nation, Shelby County, Alabama can be considered to have a poverty rate amid the residents with a poverty rate of 6.3 percent of people living in a family with an income below the poverty level in 1999. The Hispanic race/ethnicity demographic category, owns the foremost rate of poverty with 21.6 percent of the 2000 population living in poverty. People that are of the age 75 years and over have the most percent of people living in poverty in Shelby County, having 11.5 percent of the population in this age category living in poverty.

The median household income has declined from the values (adjusted for inflation) in 2000. The median has decreased to $60,964, which represents a 6 percent decline. Shelby County, Alabama, in terms of percent of decline, ranks 11 of 19 counties in percent of decline for median household income in the State of Alabama. Shelby County ranks 413 of 668 counties (or parishes) in terms of the decline in median income level for the United States.

The American Indian and Alaska Native headed households in Shelby County had a median income of $44,920, this level was 30.7 percent less than the median for all households. In Shelby County, Alabama White headed households reported a median household income (2005 Dollars) of $67,045 according to the Decennial Census of 2000, which was 3.4 percent greater than the median income in 2000. Hispanic headed households in Shelby County, Alabama reported a median household income of $44,241, this median is 31.8 percent less than the median reported for all households in the area. Black or African American headed households had median income levels that were 32.2 percent less than the overall reported level in 2000, with a reported median of $43,956. According to the 2000 Census, the Asian headed households in the area have median household incomes of $79,283. This income level is 22.2 percent greater than the reported median for all households in the area.

While the median household income saw a decline in the last five year in Shelby County, Alabama, the Race/Ethnicity category that felt the biggest decline in the household income level was the Black or African American Race/Ethnicity category. This category went through a decline of 19.9 percent since 2000. The Asian population group was least impacted by the household income decline in Shelby County, encountering a 27.2 percent increase in median income, since the values reported in the 2000 Decennial Census.

Datasource: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2000 Decennial Census. 2005 American Community Survey.