Occupational Census: The Knowledge Economy by Metro (chapel, attorney)
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I don't think I've seen a thread on this before. This is sort of similar to Richard Florida's "Creative Class" only I've decided to focus a bit more narrowly on just 24 EEO codes (financial manager, architect, chemist, chemical engineer, accountant, physician, attorney, post-secondary teacher, microbiologist, economist, software developer, computer programmer, food scientist, psychologist, etc.). It's far from a finished product so bear with me. I will keep expanding the list. But the results for now look this way.
Data is 2010 ACS estimates. I know that's decades ago in C-D world but it's the most recent data available. In parentheses is the percentage of the civilian workforce.
New York - 852,020 (9.56%)
Los Angeles - 473,925 (7.94%)
Bay Area - 412,420 (13.75%)
Chicago - 383,420 (8.53%)
Washington - 357,480 (12.37%)
Boston - 284,205 (12.21%)
Philadelphia - 256,905 (9.09%)
Dallas - 241,330 (8.01%)
Houston - 208,750 (7.69%)
Atlanta - 197,190 (7.93%)
Seattle - 186,555 (10.92%)
Miami - 164,795 (6.42%)
Detroit - 137,595 (7.27%)
Raleigh - 89,915 (11.48%)
Pittsburgh - 88,540 (7.90%)
Cleveland - 75,910 (7.73%)
Added a few smaller metros.
Last edited by BajanYankee; 01-25-2016 at 05:14 PM..
Does "Raleigh" include the whole Triangle region (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill CSA)...if not I'm sure it would rank even higher if it did.
If 89,915 represents 11.48% of the workforce, then that workforce would be 783,232. That number sounds like the Triangle's entire civilian workforce as of the 2010 Census. Regarding that stat, it would exclude all the scientists and creative class workers in the state government and those who work for the public universities as well if the below linked definition is true. Given that the number of both state government and university researchers and scientists make up a larger percentage of total employees in metros like the Triangle that are both state capitals and have the state's largest research universities, I'd guess that the percentage impact would be significant to the upside for the entire Raleigh-Durham area.
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