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Economy
Employment by Industry Group
The number of workers employed in each of the industry groups in a city strongly influences the city’s
economic prosperity and resilience. Robust growth in the Goods Producing industry group is generally seen as
a positive trend. Data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the county level has been compared to the
five most populous counties in North Carolina. Mecklenburg and Wake counties showed growth across all
categories of employment, but Guilford County experienced a loss in goods producing employment (-7%) with
the strongest growth in the services category (+26%), which includes a wide range of services: education,
finance, and health, among others.
Employment by Industry Group and Percent Change, Top Five Counties, 2000 to 2015
Source: US Census Bureau, Decennial Census, 2000 and American Community Survey 1-year Estimates, 2005 to 2015
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