Invest Hamilton County with the Indiana Business Research Center
Tracking the workforce that accelerates local economic prosperity
Place
County and region profile
Regions are Indiana’s twelve Economic Growth Regions, the same ones the state Department of Workforce Development uses. Every county belongs to exactly one. They are not the fifteen READI 2.0 regions used by the traded-industry occupations page, and several names appear in both.
Capabilities
What the work here calls for, against the average US county
Map
All 92 counties, coloured by one measure
Table
Every county, side by side
Click a heading to sort. Click a row to open it. Regional figures are weighted by jobs, never an average of county averages.
Method
Sources and method
Everything here is free federal data. BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for 2023, pulled for all 92 counties. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for May 2024. O*NET for what each job calls for. No licensed data.
The statistics
Skill demand is priced with the skills that survive occupation-clustered standard errors. The underlying decomposition priced all 35 O*NET skills. 33 looked significant until the standard errors were clustered at the occupation level, which the panel structure requires. That inflated them by a median of 17.3 times.
Nothing here is causal. It is one year, and it says nothing about whether attracting a given industry would raise a place’s wages. Pay for the same work and skill demand are both built from wage data and average pay is a wage, so part of their relationship with pay is arithmetic rather than discovery. Industry concentration is not built from wages, which is why it is the clean test.
Related
The other four surfaces
- Occupations Indiana traded-industry occupations What those jobs pay, how often they open, and which of them an education program or an apprenticeship actually reaches. The state and fifteen regions.
- Capabilities Occupations and industries by capability What the work asks of a person, rather than what the job is called. Three views on one web.
- Site selection Employer requirement screener Check a real project against a real place before you answer the site selector.
- Over time County capability mix, 2001 to 2023 One input moves and the rest is held still. Twenty-three years of it, and the only page here that is not a snapshot.
Reuse
Rebuilding this panel for another state
The three federal sources are national. Indiana’s Economic Growth Regions are the only local input. Every state has an equivalent, so the same panel rebuilds for any state from the same free data.
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