Coastal Watershed County Employment Facts

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The following page provides time series employment summary data and quick facts for U.S. and coastal watershed counties by state. The STICS website provides additional coastal watershed county demographic data for 1970-2000 and allows for custom queries and analysis.

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Coastal Watershed County Definition
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Summary Table

The employment data in the table below represents the total number of full-time and part-time jobs.

	1970	1980	1990	2000
United States
Total US Employment	91,225,080	114,166,242	139,118,975	167,221,053
Coastal Watershed Counties
Number of Counties = 673
Total Employment	49,549,815	60,673,663	74,565,893	87,513,446
Percent of Total US	54%	53%	54%	52%
Coastal Watershed Total Household Employment by Coastal State
Alabama	200,590	263,649	298,944	370,862
Alaska	93,190	198,287	287,516	337,335
California	8,226,864	11,529,643	15,318,300	17,619,517
Connecticut	1,414,359	1,709,041	2,017,466	2,114,551
District of Columbia	673,726	706,417	786,573	766,051
Delaware	274,585	312,121	422,114	510,462
Florida	2,239,991	3,660,478	5,539,247	8,736,956
Georgia	259,607	326,169	397,207	493,924
Hawaii	411,536	535,840	662,728	679,779
Illinois	2,976,179	3,124,642	3,426,577	3,779,589
Indiana	534,139	600,747	689,388	801,271
Louisiana	1,105,164	1,566,552	1,615,587	1,937,356
Maine	399,436	506,525	653,358	743,565
Maryland	1,581,151	1,933,247	2,567,204	2,864,430
Massachusetts	2,609,305	3,055,428	3,537,175	3,984,913
Michigan	3,159,380	3,560,695	4,265,374	5,052,074
Minnesota	105,298	123,640	122,670	148,459
Mississippi	162,087	202,940	222,187	303,613
New Hampshire	257,834	383,299	517,845	635,771
New Jersey	3,093,212	3,571,337	4,295,154	4,722,012
New York	7,818,437	7,898,034	8,952,078	9,587,051
North Carolina	657,034	761,365	898,224	1,089,190
Ohio	2,034,957	2,180,159	2,360,802	2,680,606
Oregon	590,441	813,837	958,006	1,188,971
Pennsylvania	2,639,896	2,796,335	3,233,058	3,532,209
Rhode Island	440,431	485,661	554,631	584,491
South Carolina	474,775	599,958	761,989	910,972
Texas	1,572,053	2,581,123	2,999,934	3,884,305
Virginia	1,398,737	1,858,167	2,590,395	3,078,058
Washington	1,123,583	1,605,540	2,272,155	2,837,313
Wisconsin	1,021,838	1,222,787	1,342,007	1,537,790

Location of the Coastal Watershed Counties and Coastal Watersheds

Coastal Watershed County Definition

A county is considered a coastal watershed county if one of the following criteria is met: (1) at a minimum, 15 percent of the county's total land area is located within a coastal watershed or (2) a portion of or an entire county accounts for at least 15 percent of a coastal cataloging unit. The five counties that make up the state of Hawaii are all considered coastal watershed counties because they fall within 8-digit USGS cataloging units (as seen on the map). Coastal watersheds for Alaska are not depicted in the map. NOAA coastal watersheds were not developed for the state Alaska, however, the counties or boroughs (a county equivalent) that fall on the shoreline are considered coastal watershed counties because they contain or are contained within 8-digit USGS cataloging units that also fall directly on the shoreline.

Quick Facts

The total number of full-time and part-time jobs in coastal watershed counties increased by approximately 38 million from 1970 to 2000.
The leading states in increased employment in coastal watershed counties from 1970 to 2000 were California with 9 million jobs, followed by Florida with over 6 million jobs.
The leading coastal watershed counties in employment in 2000 were Los Angeles County, CA, with 5.5 million jobs, Cook County, IL, with 3.4 million jobs, and New York, NY, with 2.8 million jobs.

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