Monday, October 30, 2006

Employment Report for Johnson County, Nebraska -- Annual 2005 Industry Summary

Health care and social assistance is the industry that has seen the largest increase in jobs from the year 2001 to the present in Johnson County, with a job growth of 77.7 percent. This is greater than the national employment change in the industry of 10.6 percent. The State of Nebraska experienced a sector employment shift of 11.2 percent, during the period.

Health care and social assistance has a largest number of employee per establishment in Johnson County. In the County, the industry averages 17 jobs per place of business. This is less than the industry's national average of 21 and less than the Nebraska average establishment size of 23 for the Health care and social assistance industry.

The Construction industry has decreased the most in industries presence in Johnson County since the year 2001. The industry went from accounting for 11.6 percent of total employment in 2001 to 4 percent in 2005.

In Johnson County, Health care and social assistance, Retail Trade, and the Other services, except public administration sectors are the largest industries, in terms of total number of jobs in 2005. The Health care and social assistance is the largest employment industry and makes up 19.6 percent of total employment in the county, making up 231 jobs. The Retail Trade and Other services, except public administration sectors provide 13.6 and 6.1 percent of total employment, respectively.

In Johnson County, Other services, except public administration, Health care and social assistance and Retail Trade industries have the highest United States location quotient (LQ). The Other services, except public administration sector has a United State LQ of 1.56. In other words, the percent of total jobs in the Other services, except public administration sector is 1.56 times more than the average percent in the United States, revealing signs that Johnson may be an exporter of products or services of Other services, except public administration.







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

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