Quick note: I utilized 2023 5-year estimates as the more current 2024 1-year estimates didn’t have the geographic granularity I required.
EDIT: Yeah, the industry categories used here are very broad. I used the categories as defined in the ACS (specifically, the DP03 table) for this. I became a little curious if I could get more granular here with regards to industry, and as it turns out, I can! I was able to find a table (S2403) that has more granular industry categories, and made a revised map with those categories. I can’t post images in comments here, so here’s an interactive version of it: [https://www.datawrapper.de/_/dWcNE/](https://www.datawrapper.de/_/dWcNE/)
somafiend1987 on
There’s some skewed data if this is a direct reflection. There are 3 counties in California that supply 70%+ of the nations leafy vegetables & salad fixings, while combining for a population under 3 million, but this lists them as focused on „educational, health and social services“. There’s 3 Prepackaged salad companies with revenues exceeding $20 billion a year in profit, but 8 universities, 20ish community colleges, 12 hospitals, 20 odd retirement facilities, and pre K-12 is what shows in the census?
Advantageous01 on
„Professional, scientific, and administrative and waste management services“
What?
scolbert08 on
Combining education and healthcare is a bit unfair
Glittering-Impact236 on
This map is wrong eastern Washington ag is massive. And Yakima is not even on it the largest beer hops they grow 75% of Americas hops
Jdevers77 on
Benton County Arkansas is incorrect. It lists “retail trade” which it would appear to be if you think Walmart = retail…which it does in every other county in the country, but in Benton County Arkansas the 15,000 Walmart employees should fall under “Professional, Scientific, Management, and Administration, and waste management.” That isn’t enough to make the county pink but it is enough out of retail to make the county blue like most of the country.
Odd-Masterpiece7304 on
Remember kids, colleges pay no taxes.
Hospitals that are owned by colleges also pay no taxes.
Paper_Clip100 on
Why not Orange County,FL?
chris_gnarley on
I absolutely refuse to believe that transportation. warehousing, and utilities is not the largest industry in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. There are more warehouses per square mile here than anywhere in the world.
ExtremeSour on
Lmao “public administration”. The only purple county in California is my hometown. “Prisontown USA”. There’s a PBS doc on it
SleepingBeetle on
This is a terrible cherry picked map. Why are some of these professions combined?
lost-in-the-sierras on
I struggle with map colors – shade perception is a bummer
capt_of_cozy on
A services based economy is really scary
TheGrendel83 on
What an absolutely moronic map.
PsychologicalTax2674 on
You can’t group education and Healthcare into the same category and expect this data to be useful.
chichoandthecamera on
Healthcare should be a stand alone , the fact that it’s one of the biggest industries in the us and theres so many middle men is the reason why healthcare is so expensive
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Quick note: I utilized 2023 5-year estimates as the more current 2024 1-year estimates didn’t have the geographic granularity I required.
EDIT: Yeah, the industry categories used here are very broad. I used the categories as defined in the ACS (specifically, the DP03 table) for this. I became a little curious if I could get more granular here with regards to industry, and as it turns out, I can! I was able to find a table (S2403) that has more granular industry categories, and made a revised map with those categories. I can’t post images in comments here, so here’s an interactive version of it: [https://www.datawrapper.de/_/dWcNE/](https://www.datawrapper.de/_/dWcNE/)
There’s some skewed data if this is a direct reflection. There are 3 counties in California that supply 70%+ of the nations leafy vegetables & salad fixings, while combining for a population under 3 million, but this lists them as focused on „educational, health and social services“. There’s 3 Prepackaged salad companies with revenues exceeding $20 billion a year in profit, but 8 universities, 20ish community colleges, 12 hospitals, 20 odd retirement facilities, and pre K-12 is what shows in the census?
„Professional, scientific, and administrative and waste management services“
What?
Combining education and healthcare is a bit unfair
This map is wrong eastern Washington ag is massive. And Yakima is not even on it the largest beer hops they grow 75% of Americas hops
Benton County Arkansas is incorrect. It lists “retail trade” which it would appear to be if you think Walmart = retail…which it does in every other county in the country, but in Benton County Arkansas the 15,000 Walmart employees should fall under “Professional, Scientific, Management, and Administration, and waste management.” That isn’t enough to make the county pink but it is enough out of retail to make the county blue like most of the country.
Remember kids, colleges pay no taxes.
Hospitals that are owned by colleges also pay no taxes.
Why not Orange County,FL?
I absolutely refuse to believe that transportation. warehousing, and utilities is not the largest industry in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. There are more warehouses per square mile here than anywhere in the world.
Lmao “public administration”. The only purple county in California is my hometown. “Prisontown USA”. There’s a PBS doc on it
This is a terrible cherry picked map. Why are some of these professions combined?
I struggle with map colors – shade perception is a bummer
A services based economy is really scary
What an absolutely moronic map.
You can’t group education and Healthcare into the same category and expect this data to be useful.
Healthcare should be a stand alone , the fact that it’s one of the biggest industries in the us and theres so many middle men is the reason why healthcare is so expensive