Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Employment Report for -- Annual 2005 Industry Summary

In County, Health care and social assistance, Accommodation and food services, and the Retail Trade industries have the largest percent of jobs of all industries. The Health care and social assistance is the largest employment industry and makes up 25.8 percent of total employment in the county, making up 5,877 jobs. The Accommodation and food services and Retail Trade industries make up 19.2 and 18.3 percent of industry employment.

In County, Health care and social assistance, Accommodation and food services and Retail Trade industries, in terms of United States location quotient, are the most dominant in the region. The Health care and social assistance industry has an LQ of 1.99. The level of employment in the Health care and social assistance sector is 1.99 times greater than the US average, showing signs that County produces more than its local requirement of products and/or services of Health care and social assistance.

Educational services is the industry that has grown the most in terms of employment from 2001-2005 in County, growing in new jobs by 135.5 percent. This is greater than the national employment change in the industry of 13.8 percent. The State of encountered a change in industry employment of 21 percent, during the time since 2001.

Information has the largest businesses in County, averaging 32 jobs per place of business. This is greater than the industry's national average of 22 and greater than the establishments size average of 24 for the Information industry.









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

 

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