In Logan County, jobs in the petroleum merchant wholesalers pay the highest wages

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Individuals that are employed in the petroleum merchant wholesalers industry paid the average highest wages in Logan County for 2006. The average worker in the industry in Logan County earned an annual wage of $33,116 in 2nd quarter of 2006. The wage rate is greater than the industry pay the State of North Dakota of $25,901 and less than then the pay for jobs in this industry in the United States of $50,762.

Other high-paying jobs in Logan County, North Dakota can be found in depository credit intermediation ($28,454), farm product raw material merch. whls. ($19,723), insurance agencies, brokerages, and related ($12,499) and full-service restaurants ($5,742) industries. Note: Click Graph Above for Detail Comparison

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

Logan County Wages have increased by 16.4% Since 2001

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From the second quarter of 2001 to the second quarter of 2006, industry wages have increased in Logan County, North Dakota by a total of 16.4%. This is less than the growth in wages for the State of North Dakota and greater than the growth in average industry wages for the United States.

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

Logan County Industry Wages Lag Behind North Dakota, and Wages Lag Behind the United States

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Total wages in all industries in Logan County, North Dakota when analyzed can be understood as being relatively low when analyzed with other Counties in the state. The overall wages are 37.7 percent lower than the state, which accounted an average of $30,009. The industry pay was less than the national industry average of $40,259.

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

Logan County Five-Year Industry Employment Change

Total employment has decreased by 8.6 percent from the reported values in 2001. These values are greater than percent in the State of North Dakota, which saw a gain of 7.9 percent from the 2nd Quarter of 2001. The losses in the area were greater than than the gain seen for the United States of 2.6 percent.

Logan County Five-Year Percentage Growth in Employment

The Petroleum merchant wholesalers industry has experienced the largest percentage growth, expanding by 19.6 percent from 2001 (2nd quarter) to 2006 (2nd quarter). This industry sector in Logan County has expanded faster than the industry has grown in the State of North Dakota, where it saw a loss of 4.4 percent. The Petroleum merchant wholesalers industry in Logan County outpaced the national average, which felt a lost 9.9 percent in this industry.

Top 2 Industries
1. Petroleum merchant wholesalers (19.6 percent gain)
2. Depository credit intermediation (15.4 percent gain)

Logan County Five-Year Percentage Decline in Employment

The Farm product raw material merch. whls. industry has lost the largest amount of employment in terms of percentage, losing 25.9 percent of the jobs from 2001 to 2006. These have declined faster than the industry sector has felt in the State of North Dakota, where the industry felt a loss of 2.7 percent. The losses in the Farm product raw material merch. whls. industry in Logan County outpaced the United States industry losses overall. During this period, the United States lost 7.4 percent in terms of employees in the Farm product raw material merch. whls. industry.

Top 2 Industries
1. Farm product raw material merch. whls. (25.9 percent decline)
2. Full-service restaurants (12.3 percent decline)

Total Five-Year Employment Growth in Logan County

Out of the 4-digit NAICS industries, the Depository credit intermediation industry has added the most employment with 4 jobs added during the time period. These new jobs in the Depository credit intermediation industry makes up 57.1 percent of the growth in Logan County.

Top 2 Industries
1. Depository credit intermediation (4 new jobs)
2. Petroleum merchant wholesalers (3 new jobs)

In Logan County, North Dakota, the entire sum of jobs in all industries overall has decreased by 37 jobs between mid-2001 and mid-2006.

Total Five-Year Employment Decline in Logan County

From of the area's 4-digit NAICS industries, the Farm product raw material merch. whls. industry experienced most substantial job loss, losing 20 jobs during the period. The employment lost in the Farm product raw material merch. whls. industry make up 89.4 percent of the employment lost during the period in Logan County, North Dakota.

Top 2 Industries
1. Farm product raw material merch. whls. (20 jobs lost)
2. Full-service restaurants (2 jobs lost)







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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 Logan County, North Dakota

When put side-by-side with other counties (or parishes) throughout the United States, Logan County, North Dakota can be understood to have a medium-high poverty rate amid the residents with a poverty rate of 15.1 percent of the population with family incomes below the 1999 poverty level. The Hispanic race/ethnicity demographic category, owns the foremost rate of poverty with 36.4 percent of the 2000 population living in poverty. People that are of the age 75 years and over are witness to the most percent living in poverty in Logan County, having 22.4 percent of this demographic group living with incomes under poverty.

Hispanic headed households in Logan County, North Dakota , according to the 2000 census, had a median household income of $2,924, this income level is 91.1 percent less than the median reported for all households in the area. It was reported in 2000 that the Asian headed households had median household incomes of $71,663. This median income level is 118.9 percent greater than the all households reported median in the area. In Logan County, North Dakota White headed households reported a median household income (2005 Dollars) of $32,717 according to the Decennial Census of 2000, which was 0.1 percent less than the median in 2000.

When analyzed against other counties (and parishes) in the US, Logan County had a relatively low median income for all households of $32,744 (Adjusted to 2005 Dollars). This figure is 23.6 percent lower than the household income median in State of North Dakota of $40,487 and this is 50.1 percent lower than the median household income in the United States of $49,133.







Datasource: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2000 Decennial Census.

Higher Education in Logan County, North Dakota

Reported by the 2000 Census in Logan County, North Dakota, a high proportion of the male population in the area have reached the Less than High School category, with 33.2 percent achieving this level. The female population in Logan have on average achieved a lower level of higher education (Bachelors or Higher) than the men in the area: 14 percent (Men) versus 11.8 percent (Women). A high proportion of the female population in the area has reached the Less than High School category, with 34.6 percent of women in the area reaching this education level.

In Logan County, North Dakota according to the Decennial Census of 2000, 13 percent of the White Alone, . percent of Black or African American, 25 percent of the Asian alone and 54.6 percent of the Hispanic or Latino population (over 25) has obtained a Bachelors Degree or Higher.

Logan County, North Dakota is made up of a moderately-educated 2000 population, with 13 percent of the population over 25 years old having received at least a Bachelors Degree, according to the Decennial Census of 2000. Logan counted a lower percent of the population with at least a Bachelors than the State of North Dakota's proportion of 22 percent and a lower percent than the national average of 24.4 percent.





Datasource: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2000 Decennial Census.

Demographic Profile for Logan County, North Dakota

Since 2000, a very low amount of people migrated to Logan from outside the country. The immigration into Logan makes up 0 percent of the total migration into the State of North Dakota. This percent of international migration is very low when compared to international migration per 2005 population.

When calculating the total land area, Logan spans a total area of 993 square miles. The land areas has a very low population density of 2 persons per square mile, in 2005. Similar counties, in terms of density, in the US include: -- more densely populated -- Madison, MT (2 per sq. mile ), Schleicher, TX (2 per sq. mile ), Sheridan, MT (2 per sq. mile ), -- less densely populated -- Presidio, TX (2 per sq. mile ), Rich, UT (2 per sq. mile ), Kodiak Island, AK (2 per sq. mile ).

The population division of the Census Bureau estimates in 2005 a median age in Logan County, North Dakota to be 49.7 years of age. The median in Logan is greater than the median in North Dakota of 39.1. Since 2000, the area has experienced an increase in the median, when the median age was 46.5 years of age. With a total of 19.1 percent of the population in the year 2005 being made up of individuals less than 18 years old, Logan can be understood as having a relatively low proportion of youths. The working age population group (18-64) has a relatively low presence of the 2005 population base, with 52.5 percent of the population falling in this age category. The retirement (65 and over) group makes up 28.4 percent of the total population base. Compared to other counties throughout the nation, this represents a relatively high proportion of the population.

Logan County, North Dakota had a total estimated population of 2,059 for the year 2005. The total population has decreased sharply, since its 2000 population of 2,296. The decline signifies a decrease of -10.3 percent. Logan ranks 28 of 53 counties when analyzing total population change in North Dakota and the county ranks 2,394 of 3,141 counties by growth in county population in the United States.

Logan County, North Dakota has a population that is made of 98.2 percent White, 0.1 percent African American, 0.4 percent Asian, and 0.8 percent Hispanic. The area can be described as having a very modest level of diversity, with 1.3 percent of the population made up of minorities. This is less than the State of North Dakota percent of 3. Since 2000, Logan has increased the level of diversity when 1.0 percent of the total population were minorities.

Datasource: Population Estimates Program, U.S. Bureau of the Census.

Employment Report for Logan County, North Dakota -- Annual 2005 Industry Summary

Wholesale trade is the industry with the largest establishments in Logan County, with the industry averaging 9 workers per each place of employment, being less than the US industry average of 10 and greater than the North Dakota establishments size average of 8 for the Wholesale trade industry.

In Logan County, Wholesale trade, Other services, except public administration and Accommodation and food services have the highest US LQ in 2005. The Wholesale trade industry has a US LQ in the county of 4.59. In other words, the percent of total jobs in the Wholesale trade sector is 4.59 times more than the average percent in the United States, revealing signs that Logan County produces more than its local requirement of products and/or services of Wholesale trade.

The Health care and social assistance industry has decreased the most in industries presence in Logan County since the year 2001. The industry went from accounting for 25.6 percent of total employment in 2001 to 0 percent in the year 2005.

Logan County is ranked number 48 of 54 total Counties throughout North Dakota in terms the size of total employment in 2005. This ranking has moved up during the time of 2001 and 2005. The County, in the year 2001, was ranked 46 of 54 Counties.

In Logan County, Wholesale trade, Accommodation and food services, and the Retail Trade sectors are the largest industries, in terms of total number of jobs in 2005. The Wholesale trade provides the most jobs and contributes 23.9 percent of total employment in the county, making up 89 employees. The Accommodation and food services and Retail Trade industries make up 10.2 and 8 percent of industry employment.







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