Friday, February 23, 2007

Bastrop County Five-Year Industry Employment Change

Total Five-Year Employment Decline in Bastrop County

Given the industries in the area, the Nonresidential building construction industry experienced most substantial job loss, losing 302 jobs during the time period. The jobs lost in the Nonresidential building construction industry make up 59.0 percent of the total job loss in Bastrop County, Texas.

Top 5 Industries
1. Nonresidential building construction (302 jobs lost)
2. Automobile dealers (99 jobs lost)
3. Building equipment contractors (33 jobs lost)
4. Drycleaning and laundry services (21 jobs lost)
5. Office supplies, stationery, and gift stores (11 jobs lost)

Total Five-Year Employment Growth in Bastrop County

The Full-service restaurants industry has grown the most with 202 jobs added during the time period. These new jobs in the Full-service restaurants industry makes up 16.1 percent of the total growth in Bastrop County.

Top 5 Industries
1. Full-service restaurants (202 new jobs)
2. Other professional and technical services (188 new jobs)
3. Utility system construction (127 new jobs)
4. Building material and supplies dealers (109 new jobs)
5. Limited-service eating places (89 new jobs)

In Bastrop County, Texas, the total number of jobs throughout all industries has increased by 1,252 total jobs from 2001 to 2006.

Of the 47 industry sectors (4-digit NAICS) with employment figures reported by the BLS in each quarter, 14 accounted an for increase in employment during the period and 33 industries reported a drop in employment.

Bastrop County Five-Year Percentage Growth in Employment

The Unclassified industry has gone through the largest job growth by percent, increasing by 1885.7 percent from the 2001 (Q2) to the 2006 (Q2). This industry in Bastrop County has expanded faster than the growth seen in the industry for Texas, where the industry took a gain of 222.1 percent. The Unclassified industry in Bastrop County outpaced the national average, which felt a gained 1.7 percent in this industry.

Top 5 Industries
1. Unclassified (1885.7 percent gain)
2. Management and technical consulting services (808.3 percent gain)
3. Accounting and bookkeeping services (271.4 percent gain)
4. Other professional and technical services (197.2 percent gain)
5. Offices of physicians (140.9 percent gain)

Bastrop County Five-Year Percentage Decline in Employment

The Nonresidential building construction industry has lost the largest percent of jobs, losing 90.3 percent of the jobs from the 2nd quarter of 2001 to 2nd quarter of 2006. The losses of the area have declined faster than the industry has seen in the Texas, where the industry reported a loss of 12.9 percent. The losses in the Nonresidential building construction industry in Bastrop County outpaced the losses of nation as a whole in the industry. In this time period, the nation lost 1.6 percent in terms of employees in the Nonresidential building construction industry.

Top 5 Industries
1. Nonresidential building construction (90.3 percent decline)
2. Office supplies, stationery, and gift stores (47.1 percent decline)
3. Drycleaning and laundry services (43.7 percent decline)
4. Automobile dealers (30.6 percent decline)
5. Furniture and furnishing merchant wholesalers (30.5 percent decline)

Total employment has increased by 16.8 percent from the reported values in 2001. These values are greater than percent in Texas, which experienced a gain of 4.8 percent since 2001 ( 2nd Quarter). The gains felt were greater than than the gain reported at the US level of 2.6 percent.





About: This report is part 2 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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