Monday, October 30, 2006

Employment Report for Caldwell County, Texas -- Annual 2005 Industry Summary

The Administrative and waste services has seen the largest decrease in industry presence in Caldwell County, since the year 2001, moving from making up 5.7 percent of total employment in 2001 to 0 percent of employment in 2005.

Health care and social assistance has a largest number of employee per establishment in Caldwell County. The industry averages 35 jobs per place of business. This is greater than the US industry average of 21 and greater than the State of Texas average establishment size of 21 for the Health care and social assistance industry.

In Caldwell County, Mining, Utilities and Health care and social assistance industries, in terms of United States location quotient, are the most dominant in the region. The Mining industry has a US LQ in the county of 12.93. The level of employment in the Mining sector is 12.93 times greater than the national average, signifying that Caldwell may be an exporter of products or services of Mining.

In Caldwell 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 30.5 percent of the total county employment. This totals 1,536 people employed. The Retail Trade and Accommodation and food services industries make up 16.6 and 10.7 percent of total employment, respectively.

Mining is an attractive industry due to its high level of job growth since the year 2001 in Caldwell County, with a job growth of 97.6 percent. This is greater than the rate of industry employment change in the United States of 4.7 percent. The State of Texas encountered a change in industry employment of 8.9 percent, in the last 5 years.







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

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