Ohio Employment Growth by County
2000 vs. 2017, Net Percent Change
Ohio Employment Growth by County
Delaware County 2000 vs. 2017
Net Percent Change = 130.96%
Rank = #1
Monroe County 2000 vs. 2017
Net Percent Change = -25.05%
Rank = #88
Guernsey County 2000 vs. 2017
Net Percent Change = 3.15%
Rank = #32
With a spotlight on Guernsey County, the chart above displays the distribution of the net percent change of employment across Ohio's 88 counties over the period 2000-2017.
Those counties whose employment growth registered above the statewide average over this period realized an increase in their statewide share of employment. Likewise, those counties whose employment growth registered below the statewide average experienced a decline in their relative share of employment statewide.
Statewide Snippets:
  • Over 2000-2017 employment grew in thirty-six Ohio counties while declining in fifty-two.
  • Employment growth in thirty-two counties outpaced the statewide average (2.92%), while growth in fifty-six counties trailed.
  • At the extremes of the distribution, Delaware County posted the highest growth of employment (130.96%), while Monroe County placed last by logging a -25.05% decline.
  • The spread in employment growth between the highest (Delaware County, 130.96%) and lowest (Monroe County, -25.05%) over 2000-2017 equated to 156.01% ( = 130.96%-25.05%).
  • Employment growth statewide is but a weighted metric that stems from each county's share of employment statewide. On this point, as the largest county in Ohio, Franklin County's net employment growth over 2000-2017 of 127,800 made up 64.37% of the total net growth statewide (198,547):

Franklin County: Percent Share of Ohio's
Employment Growth, 2000-2017:

64.37% = (127,800 / 198,547) x 100
Guernsey County Snippets:
  • Over 2000-2017, Guernsey County posted a 3.15% net gain in employment.
  • Guernsey County was joined by thirty-one other counties whose employment growth over 2000-2017 registered above the statewide average (2.92%).
  • Ranked #32 among Ohio's 88 counties, Guernsey County's employment growth (3.15%) outperformed the statewide average of 2.92% by a 0.22% margin.
  • Guernsey County's net employment growth (3.15%, #32) over 2000-2017 registered just above that of Fayette County (2.18%, #33) and just below that of Putnam County (3.89%, #31).

Data Definition

The BEA employment series for states and local areas comprises estimates of the number of jobs, full-time plus part-time, by place of work. Full-time and part-time jobs are counted at equal weight. Employees, sole proprietors, and active partners are included, but unpaid family workers and volunteers are not included. Proprietors employment consists of the number of sole proprietorships and the number of partners in partnerships. The description "by place of work" applies to the wage and salary portion of the series and, with relatively little error, to the entire series. The proprietors employment portion of the series, however, is more nearly by place of residence because, for nonfarm sole proprietorships, the estimates are based on IRS tax data that reflect the address from which the proprietor's individual tax return is filed, which is usually the proprietor's residence. The nonfarm partnership portion of the proprietors employment series reflects the tax-filing address of the partnership, which may be either the residence of one of the partners or the business address of the partnership. The employment estimates are designed to be consistent with the estimates of wages and salaries and proprietors' income that are part of the personal income series. The employment estimates are based on the same sets of source data as the corresponding earnings estimates and are prepared with parallel methodologies. Two forms of proprietors' income-the income of limited partnerships and the income of tax-exempt cooperatives-have no corresponding employment estimates.

United States. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Income Division.
Regional Definitions. 2023. Web.
https://apps.bea.gov/regional/definitions/

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Employment Growth by County
2000 vs. 2017, Net Percent Change
Employment Growth by County
View Distribution Totals as: Actual Percent
     
 
County Distribution of Employment Growth, 2000 vs. 2017
More
than
30%
30%
to
20%
20%
to
10%
10%
to
0%
0%
to
-10%
-10%
to
-20%
-20%
to
-30%
-30%
or
Below
Total
2000 vs. 2017
3
6
10
17
33
13
6
0
88
 
     
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Employment by County, 2017
Employment by County, 2017
Franklin County 2017
Employment = 980,361
Percent of State = 14.03%
Rank = #1
Vinton County 2017
Employment = 3,498
Percent of State = 0.05%
Rank = #88
Guernsey County 2017
Employment = 21,179
Percent of State = 0.30%
Rank = #57
Again highlighting Guernsey County's position, the bar graph above displays the disposition by county of 2017 employment statewide (6,987,847).

Interactive TableTip: Although the visual profile of the bar chart remains unchanged you may opt to display the actual total by using the "Select Indicator" options above the graph

Statewide Snippets:
  • Ranked #1, Franklin County's 2017 employment totaled 980,361, equating to 14.03% of the statewide total.
  • Ranked last (#88), Vinton County's employment of 3,498 in 2017 comprised just 0.05% of the total statewide. Vinton County's employment in 2017 equates to less than .01% to that of Franklin County's.
  • Franklin County's 2017 employment (980,361) exceeded the combined employment (951,611) of Ohio's fifty-one smallest counties.
Guernsey County Snippets:
  • Guernsey County's employment in 2017 ranked #57, amounting to 0.30% of the statewide total.
  • Guernsey County's employment of 21,179 placed below that of Williams County's (22,705, #56), and just above that of Defiance County's (20,932, #58).
  • Guernsey County's employment of 21,179 exceeds the combined total (18,477) of Ohio's four smallest counties.
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Employment by County, 2017
Employment by County, 2017
View Distribution Totals as: Actual Percent
     
 
County Distribution of Employment, 2017
More
than
500,000
500,000
to
400,000
400,000
to
300,000
300,000
to
200,000
200,000
to
100,000
100,000
or
Below
Total
2017
3
0
2
3
6
74
88
 
     
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Ohio Employment by County:
2000 vs. 2017
 
2000
 
2017
 
2000 - 2017
 
 
 
 
11,964
0.18
 
10,642
0.15
 
-11.05
-1,322
-0.67
-0.02
 
72,973
1.07
 
63,903
0.91
 
-12.43
-9,070
-4.57
-0.16
 
27,529
0.41
 
26,320
0.38
 
-4.39
-1,209
-0.61
-0.03
 
49,092
0.72
 
42,516
0.61
 
-13.40
-6,576
-3.31
-0.11
 
27,817
0.41
 
32,205
0.46
 
15.77
4,388
2.21
0.05
 
25,164
0.37
 
27,816
0.40
 
10.54
2,652
1.34
0.03
 
31,571
0.47
 
31,295
0.45
 
-0.87
-276
-0.14
-0.02
 
15,342
0.23
 
14,113
0.20
 
-8.01
-1,229
-0.62
-0.02
 
162,174
2.39
 
204,476
2.93
 
26.08
42,302
21.31
0.54
 
12,090
0.18
 
10,856
0.16
 
-10.21
-1,234
-0.62
-0.02
 
17,016
0.25
 
15,576
0.22
 
-8.46
-1,440
-0.73
-0.03
 
72,418
1.07
 
62,106
0.89
 
-14.24
-10,312
-5.19
-0.18
 
73,686
1.09
 
85,122
1.22
 
15.52
11,436
5.76
0.13
 
30,653
0.45
 
23,456
0.34
 
-23.48
-7,197
-3.62
-0.12
 
48,011
0.71
 
42,431
0.61
 
-11.62
-5,580
-2.81
-0.10
 
20,667
0.30
 
15,746
0.23
 
-23.81
-4,921
-2.48
-0.08
 
23,436
0.35
 
18,309
0.26
 
-21.88
-5,127
-2.58
-0.08
 
966,308
14.23
 
927,994
13.28
 
-3.96
-38,314
-19.30
-0.95
 
28,490
0.42
 
27,029
0.39
 
-5.13
-1,461
-0.74
-0.03
 
24,365
0.36
 
20,932
0.30
 
-14.09
-3,433
-1.73
-0.06
 
54,876
0.81
 
126,740
1.81
 
130.96
71,864
36.19
1.01
 
50,389
0.74
 
47,839
0.68
 
-5.06
-2,550
-1.28
-0.06
 
51,705
0.76
 
64,608
0.92
 
24.96
12,903
6.50
0.16
 
14,714
0.22
 
15,035
0.22
 
2.18
321
0.16
0.00
 
852,561
12.56
 
980,361
14.03
 
14.99
127,800
64.37
1.47
 
27,619
0.41
 
24,905
0.36
 
-9.83
-2,714
-1.37
-0.05
 
16,521
0.24
 
15,537
0.22
 
-5.96
-984
-0.50
-0.02
 
47,924
0.71
 
55,702
0.80
 
16.23
7,778
3.92
0.09
 
88,052
1.30
 
101,380
1.45
 
15.14
13,328
6.71
0.15
 
20,533
0.30
 
21,179
0.30
 
3.15
646
0.33
0.00
 
671,330
9.89
 
652,772
9.34
 
-2.76
-18,558
-9.35
-0.55
 
53,007
0.78
 
56,413
0.81
 
6.43
3,406
1.72
0.03
 
13,550
0.20
 
12,287
0.18
 
-9.32
-1,263
-0.64
-0.02
 
5,635
0.08
 
6,004
0.09
 
6.55
369
0.19
0.00
 
15,445
0.23
 
15,308
0.22
 
-0.89
-137
-0.07
-0.01
 
16,556
0.24
 
16,692
0.24
 
0.82
136
0.07
0.00
 
9,785
0.14
 
10,353
0.15
 
5.80
568
0.29
0.00
 
24,050
0.35
 
30,368
0.43
 
26.27
6,318
3.18
0.08
 
34,475
0.51
 
28,784
0.41
 
-16.51
-5,691
-2.87
-0.10
 
14,688
0.22
 
13,698
0.20
 
-6.74
-990
-0.50
-0.02
 
31,877
0.47
 
27,239
0.39
 
-14.55
-4,638
-2.34
-0.08
 
26,031
0.38
 
31,071
0.44
 
19.36
5,040
2.54
0.06
 
122,818
1.81
 
125,000
1.79
 
1.78
2,182
1.10
-0.02
 
18,612
0.27
 
18,314
0.26
 
-1.60
-298
-0.15
-0.01
 
72,775
1.07
 
80,923
1.16
 
11.20
8,148
4.10
0.09
 
26,532
0.39
 
26,325
0.38
 
-0.78
-207
-0.10
-0.01
 
131,656
1.94
 
133,314
1.91
 
1.26
1,658
0.84
-0.03
 
287,445
4.23
 
263,391
3.77
 
-8.37
-24,054
-12.12
-0.46
 
18,321
0.27
 
23,391
0.33
 
27.67
5,070
2.55
0.06
 
140,480
2.07
 
130,011
1.86
 
-7.45
-10,469
-5.27
-0.21
 
35,924
0.53
 
30,891
0.44
 
-14.01
-5,033
-2.53
-0.09
 
72,965
1.07
 
87,833
1.26
 
20.38
14,868
7.49
0.18
 
7,843
0.12
 
6,163
0.09
 
-21.42
-1,680
-0.85
-0.03
 
21,144
0.31
 
27,222
0.39
 
28.75
6,078
3.06
0.08
 
55,964
0.82
 
54,977
0.79
 
-1.76
-987
-0.50
-0.04
 
7,372
0.11
 
5,525
0.08
 
-25.05
-1,847
-0.93
-0.03
 
359,014
5.29
 
325,497
4.66
 
-9.34
-33,517
-16.88
-0.63
 
5,873
0.09
 
4,638
0.07
 
-21.03
-1,235
-0.62
-0.02
 
10,830
0.16
 
10,376
0.15
 
-4.19
-454
-0.23
-0.01
 
50,541
0.74
 
45,489
0.65
 
-10.00
-5,052
-2.54
-0.09
 
5,027
0.07
 
4,816
0.07
 
-4.20
-211
-0.11
-0.01
 
20,758
0.31
 
20,251
0.29
 
-2.44
-507
-0.26
-0.02
 
7,708
0.11
 
7,369
0.11
 
-4.40
-339
-0.17
-0.01
 
10,034
0.15
 
10,452
0.15
 
4.17
418
0.21
0.00
 
22,165
0.33
 
20,456
0.29
 
-7.71
-1,709
-0.86
-0.03
 
14,968
0.22
 
13,184
0.19
 
-11.92
-1,784
-0.90
-0.03
 
72,470
1.07
 
79,183
1.13
 
9.26
6,713
3.38
0.07
 
15,457
0.23
 
16,242
0.23
 
5.08
785
0.40
0.00
 
16,899
0.25
 
17,557
0.25
 
3.89
658
0.33
0.00
 
73,985
1.09
 
64,555
0.92
 
-12.75
-9,430
-4.75
-0.17
 
35,009
0.52
 
36,836
0.53
 
5.22
1,827
0.92
0.01
 
33,457
0.49
 
33,349
0.48
 
-0.32
-108
-0.05
-0.02
 
32,280
0.48
 
31,936
0.46
 
-1.07
-344
-0.17
-0.02
 
28,800
0.42
 
26,840
0.38
 
-6.81
-1,960
-0.99
-0.04
 
34,021
0.50
 
33,757
0.48
 
-0.78
-264
-0.13
-0.02
 
220,140
3.24
 
210,618
3.01
 
-4.33
-9,522
-4.80
-0.23
 
324,870
4.79
 
348,791
4.99
 
7.36
23,921
12.05
0.21
 
115,132
1.70
 
92,654
1.33
 
-19.52
-22,478
-11.32
-0.37
 
46,266
0.68
 
50,600
0.72
 
9.37
4,334
2.18
0.04
 
29,051
0.43
 
42,078
0.60
 
44.84
13,027
6.56
0.17
 
16,049
0.24
 
14,970
0.21
 
-6.72
-1,079
-0.54
-0.02
 
3,366
0.05
 
3,498
0.05
 
3.92
132
0.07
0.00
 
77,587
1.14
 
125,805
1.80
 
62.15
48,218
24.29
0.66
 
32,435
0.48
 
34,374
0.49
 
5.98
1,939
0.98
0.01
 
62,027
0.91
 
69,487
0.99
 
12.03
7,460
3.76
0.08
 
24,812
0.37
 
22,705
0.32
 
-8.49
-2,107
-1.06
-0.04
 
73,445
1.08
 
86,700
1.24
 
18.05
13,255
6.68
0.16
 
12,884
0.19
 
12,386
0.18
 
-3.87
-498
-0.25
-0.01
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6,789,300
100.00
 
6,987,847
100.00
 
2.92
198,547
100.00
0.00
 
5,572,808
82.08
 
5,798,495
82.98
 
4.05
225,687
113.67
0.90
 
1,216,492
17.92
 
1,189,352
17.02
 
-2.23
-27,140
-13.67
-0.90
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
165,370,800
 
196,394,100
 
18.76
31,023,300
 
142,396,424
 
172,909,128
 
21.43
30,512,704
 
22,974,376
 
23,484,972
 
2.22
510,596
Source: Calculations by the Ohio Regional Economic Analysis Project (OH-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis
November 2023
REAP_PI_CA1400_YRVYR_1000A
 
   
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