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The Greater Louisville region has a highly skilled workforce and is known for the productivity of its workers. Long a center for the production of durable goods, such as cars, trucks and appliances, the Louisville workforce is well known for its high level of skill and experience.
As the Louisville economy has diversified over the years, the area
has also developed a strong base of highly skilled office and service
employees.
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Analysis of the 2000 Census: State of the Regional Workforce Report
The reader will find Greater Louisville labor market information analyzed in several ways.
At the outset essential labor force statistics on Louisville are presented, released recently
from the 2000 Census. Labor force information is broken down by several geographic levels, including
county, seven-county metro area, and twenty-three county economic area. In other cases, we
present information for the Louisville metro area along with that for its prime competitors.
These are the same fourteen ‘peer’ metros that have been used in other studies for economic
development groups, and include Birmingham, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton,
Greensboro, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Memphis, Nashville, Omaha, Raleigh,
and Richmond.
The Greater Louisville Migration Report
Typically, over twenty-five thousand people move out and
more than twenty-five thousand people move into the Louisville area
each year The difference between the annual in-flow and out-flow is
the component of Louisville’s population growth that is most sensitive
to job opportunities and amenities in Louisville relative to other cities.
And the characteristics of these movers - age, household composition,
occupation, education level, and even nationality – is the driving force
behind changes in the area’s human capital. In this report, we provide a
first-ever investigation of migration patterns and characteristics for
Louisville.
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