Job Postings Per Capita - The 50 most populous metro areas ranked by job postings per 1000 people for third quarter 2005 by job search engine Indeed.com. Ranked #1 was San Jose with 99 job openings per 1000 people. Las Vegas, Washington D.C., Boston, and Denver round out the top 5. Columbus is ranked 21, Cincinnati 33, Cleveland 39, and Detroit 46.
Some Indeed.com job searches with 2000 population numbers in parens.
Toledo (313,619)
- job postings within 5 miles: 1,613
- 15 miles: 2,007
- 25 miles: 2,574
Columbus (711,470)
- job postings within 5 miles: 11,870
- 15 miles: 15,764
- 25 miles: 16,401
Dayton (166,179)
- job postings within 5 miles: 3,927
Ann Arbor (114,024)
- job postings within 5 miles: 2,827
posted by jr to business at 11:50 A.M. EST
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Considering our discussion the other day where we talked in person about Dayton? That adds another level to the discussion.
I fully admit I'm not great in the math department but it would appear Dayton would have a higher ranking than even Columbus in per capita numbers.
posted by psyche777 at 01:18 P.M. EST on Mon Jan 23, 2006 #
So, if I understand correctly, the postings per 1k capita in descending order are:
Ann Arbor 25
Dayton 24
Columbus 23
Toledo 8
Ann Arbor and Dayton are probably much further ahead because there is only 5 mile figures available while Columbus and Toledo got 25 miles to count from (I used the 25 mile numbers for Toledo and Columbus). I would think that the 5 mile figures would be the worst 5 miles to count from for any city assuming that downtown is the center.
I was at a presentation a couple of years ago at MUO in which an economist had a 3D topographical map of Ohio. The "altitude" was based on high tech employment. The big peaks were, predictably, Columbus and Cincinnati. However, there was a ridge that ran north out of Cincinnati and west out of Columbus that intersected with a peak in Dayton that wasn't that much lower the ones in Cincinati and Columbus. Given that this map was NOT based on per capita, it was clear that Dayton has a substantially disproportionate amount of high tech employment compared to its population.
posted by babbleman at 02:01 P.M. EST on Mon Jan 23, 2006 #
I'm not sure how useful the Dayton ratio is because the city population is such a small fraction of the metro population compared to Columbus which is roughly half the metro (similar to Toledo). Cleveland and Detroit also have much more jobs and people outside a larger radius.
posted by tomo at 02:12 P.M. EST on Mon Jan 23, 2006 #
15 and 25 mile job posting figures exist for Dayton and Ann Arbor too. You can find them at Indeed.com. I didn't post them because for 25 miles outside of Dayton, you start running into Cincinnati overflow.
It doesn't matter. The numbers within five miles of Datyon and Toledo are notable in my opinion. Dayton's population is only a little more than half of Toledo's, but Dayton has more than twice the number of job openings than Toledo at Indeed.com.
I'm sure Dayton benefits some from being close to Cincinnati, but that cannot be the only reason. Dayton and Montgomery County are doing something.
Again, remember the report about a 1998-2003 five-year study?
"Toledo's home county, Lucas, is the only one of Ohio's major urban counties to lose private-sector professional, scientific, and technical services jobs over the latest five-year period."
% change in employment in engineering, advertising, and other high-paying professional positions during this five-year period:
Montgomery (Dayton) +16%
Lucas (Toledo) -11%
I would approve of Toledo and Lucas County officials using taxpayer dollars to visit Dayton/Montgomery County for a fact-finding mission. The taxpayer money for this trip would serve a greater purpose than the taxpayer money used for the Carty Westgate plan and the money spent paying consultant Chema to figure out something again for a new arena.
posted by jr at 12:16 A.M. EST on Tue Jan 24, 2006 #
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