Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Employment Report for -- Annual 2005 Industry Summary

In County, Manufacturing, Health care and social assistance, and the Retail Trade sectors are the largest industries, in terms of total number of jobs in 2005. The Manufacturing is the largest employment industry and makes up 21.2 percent of all the jobs in the county. This makes up 9,888 people employed. The Health care and social assistance and Retail Trade industries make up 18.1 and 15.7 percent of all employment.

Wholesale trade is the industry with the largest change in employment since the year 2001 in County, with an industry growth of 28.2 percent. This is greater than the United States change in the sector jobs of 0.4 percent. The State of faced a industry job change of 2.4 percent, in the last 5 years.

Manufacturing between the years 2001 and 2005, saw the greatest loss in employment in County. The sector faced a loss of 2,384 employees during the period, or 19.4 percent of the employment in the industry. This made up a total of 44 percent of the total jobs loss in the County.

Manufacturing is the industry with the largest establishments in County, with the industry averaging 90 jobs per place of business. This is greater than the US industry average of 39 and greater than the State of typical size of 48 for the Manufacturing industry.

In County, Management of companies and enterprises, Manufacturing and Educational services industries have the highest United States location quotient (LQ). The Management of companies and enterprises industry has a US LQ in the county of 2.02. The percent of employment in the Management of companies and enterprises sector is 2.02 times greater than the US average, showing signs that County produces more than its local requirement of products and/or services of Management of companies and enterprises.







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

 

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