Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Employment Report for La Salle County, Texas -- Annual 2005 Industry Summary

Real estate and rental and leasing has had the highest level of job growth from 2001-2005 in La Salle County, with an employment growth of 212.5 percent. This is greater than the rate of industry employment change in the United States of 4.3 percent. The State of Texas saw a change in employment in the sector of 0.6 percent, since the year 2001.

Health care and social assistance has the largest businesses in La Salle County, with the industry averaging 8 workers per each place of employment, being less than the industry's national average of 21 and less than the State of Texas establishments size average of 21 for the Health care and social assistance industry.

In La Salle County, Real estate and rental and leasing, Retail Trade and Health care and social assistance industries, in terms of United States location quotient, are the most dominant in the region. The Real estate and rental and leasing industry has a US LQ in the county of 1.46. This means the percent of total employment in the Real estate and rental and leasing sector is 1.46 times greater than the US average, showing signs that La Salle County produces more than its local requirement of products and/or services of Real estate and rental and leasing.

In La Salle County, Retail Trade, Health care and social assistance, and the Finance and insurance industries are the largest employment industries. The Retail Trade is the largest employment industry and makes up 12.8 percent of all jobs throughout the county, totaling 114 individuals. The Health care and social assistance and Finance and insurance sectors provide 8.5 and 2.9 percent of all employment.

The Other services, except public administration industry decreased the most in percent of total employment in La Salle County, since the year 2001, moving from making up 7.5 percent of employment in 2001 to 2.1 percent of total employment in the year 2005.







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

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home

 

About - © 2007 Ecanned.com  - Contact