Monday, October 30, 2006

Employment Report for Mille Lacs County, Minnesota -- Annual 2005 Industry Summary

In Mille Lacs County, Health care and social assistance, Accommodation and food services and Arts, entertainment, and recreation industries, in terms of United States location quotient, are the most dominant in the region. The Health care and social assistance sector has a United State LQ of 1.64. The level of employment in the Health care and social assistance sector is 1.64 times the percent of the national average, This signifies that Mille Lacs County produces more than its local requirement of products and/or services of Health care and social assistance.

Information has had the highest level of job growth from 2001-2005 in Mille Lacs County, growing in new jobs by 285.2 percent. This is greater than the national employment change in the industry of -14.9 percent. The State of Minnesota had changed in sector employment of -15 percent, since the year 2001.

In Mille Lacs County, Health care and social assistance, Retail Trade, and the Accommodation and food services industries have the largest percent of jobs of all industries. The Health care and social assistance is the major employer in the county making up 21.2 percent of the total county employment. This totals 1,292 individuals. The Retail Trade and Accommodation and food services industries total 16.1 and 15.9 percent of the total jobs, respectively.

The Manufacturing sector has decreased the most in local industry presence in Mille Lacs County since 2001, going from making up 21.9 percent of total jobs in the year 2001 to 14.2 percent in 2005.

Manufacturing since the year 2001 lost the most jobs in Mille Lacs County. The sector dealt with a loss of 638 jobs, or 42.4 percent of employment in the sector. These losses made up 49.6 percent of the total jobs loss in the County.

Health care and social assistance has the largest employers in Mille Lacs County. In the County, the industry averages 30 jobs per establishment, which is greater than the industry's average in the United States of 21 and greater than the State of Minnesota average establishment size of 29 for the Health care and social assistance industry.

Mille Lacs County is ranked at 45 of 88 total Counties compared to other Counties in State of Minnesota according to the relatively size of the employment base in the year 2005. This ranking has moved up between the years 2001 and 2005. In 2001, the County was ranked 43 of 88 Counties.



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

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