Monday, January 22, 2007

Atascosa County One-Year Industry Employment Change

Atascosa County One-Year Percentage Growth in Employment

The Offices of real estate agents and brokers industry has gone through the largest job growth by percent, increasing by 128.6 percent from 2005 (2nd quarter) to 2006 (2nd quarter). This industry sector in Atascosa County has grow faster than the overall industry growth seen in the State of Texas, where the industry felt a gain of 4.7 percent. The Offices of real estate agents and brokers industry in Atascosa County outpaced the national average, which felt a gained 5.9 percent.

Top 5 Industries
1. Offices of real estate agents and brokers (128.6 percent gain)
2. Unclassified (112.0 percent gain)
3. Offices of other health practitioners (89.5 percent gain)
4. Building foundation and exterior contractors (73.8 percent gain)
5. Computer systems design and related services (52.8 percent gain)

Atascosa County One-Year Percentage Decline in Employment

The Accounting and bookkeeping services industry has lost the biggest percent of jobs, losing 29.3 percent from 2005 (2nd Quarter) to 2006 (2nd Quarter). These losses have declined faster than the industry sector has gone through in the Texas, where the it saw a gain of 5.7 percent. The losses in the Accounting and bookkeeping services industry in Atascosa County outpaced the losses of nation as a whole in the industry. In this time period, the nation gained 3.8 in percent of workers in the Accounting and bookkeeping services industry.

Top 5 Industries
1. Accounting and bookkeeping services (29.3 percent decline)
2. Automobile dealers (22.3 percent decline)
3. Clothing stores (20 percent decline)
4. Support activities for crop production (19.7 percent decline)
5. Building material and supplies dealers (17.3 percent decline)

Total employment has increased by 7.5 percent since the 2nd Quarter of 2005. This is greater than growth in Texas, which saw a gain of 4.0 percent since 2005 ( 2nd Quarter). The gains in the area were greater than than the gain reported at the US level of 2.0 percent.

Total One-Year Employment Growth in Atascosa County

The Support activities for mining industry has accounted the most employment growth with a total of 99 jobs added during the time period. These new jobs in the Support activities for mining industry makes up 29.3 percent of the total number of new jobs in Atascosa County.

Top 5 Industries
1. Support activities for mining (99 new jobs)
2. Building foundation and exterior contractors (26 new jobs)
3. Unclassified (19 new jobs)
4. Grocery stores (16 new jobs)
5. Electronic markets and agents and brokers (16 new jobs)

Total One-Year Employment Decline in Atascosa County

From of the area's 4-digit NAICS industries, the Automobile dealers industry faced the greatest employment loss with a total loss of 24 jobs during the time period. The jobs lost in the Automobile dealers industry make up 19.8 percent of the employment lost during the period in Atascosa County, Texas.

Top 5 Industries
1. Automobile dealers (24 jobs lost)
2. Building material and supplies dealers (21 jobs lost)
3. Offices of physicians (20 jobs lost)
4. Accounting and bookkeeping services (8 jobs lost)
5. Child day care services (8 jobs lost)

Given the 50 industry sectors (4-digit NAICS) with employment figures reported by the BLS in each quarter, 17 showed an escalation in the number employed, while 32 industry sectors reported declines during the time period.

In Atascosa County, Texas, the aggregate employment for all industry sectors has increased by 484 total jobs from 2005 to 2006.





About: This report is part 1 of 6 in the eCanned.com Industry Analysis Series.

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

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