Monday, October 30, 2006

Employment Report for Osage County, Oklahoma -- Annual 2005 Industry Summary

Manufacturing is the industry with the largest change in employment since the year 2001 in Osage County, with an industry growth of 98.1 percent. This is greater than the industry employment change in the United States of -13.4 percent. The State of Oklahoma encountered a change in industry employment of -14.9 percent, in the period of time since 2001.

Arts, entertainment, and recreation has the largest businesses in Osage County. In the County, the industry averages 15 jobs per place of business. This is less than the industry's average at the national level of 16 and less than the State of Oklahoma establishments size average of 15 for the Arts, entertainment, and recreation industry.

In Osage County, Mining, Arts, entertainment, and recreation and Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting are the three industries with the highest location quotients. The Mining industry has a US LQ in the county of 21.55. The level of employment in the Mining sector is 21.55 times more than the average percent in the United States, revealing signs that Osage specializes in Mining.

In Osage County, Retail Trade, Health care and social assistance, and the Manufacturing sectors are the largest industries, in terms of total number of jobs in 2005. The Retail Trade is the largest employment industry and makes up 19.3 percent of the total county employment. This totals 713 people employed. The Health care and social assistance and Manufacturing industries total 15.8 and 11.2 percent of industry employment.









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

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