Metrics -
Community Counts
Our area at-a-glance

For your benefit, we have some statistics that give a better look at how Jefferson County functions economically through the lens of health status, age factors,
graduate data & unemployment aid.

We have made them available to you for download or to view directly online for ease of use.
 Simply choose your desired format from the links under the heading of each file listed below.
Depending on your operating system and web-browser, you may need to right-click (PC) or control-click (Mac) to download linked files.


Jefferson County Data

Jefferson County Statistics (.xls) Basic Demographics 2008, Employment Statistics 2006, Employment by Industry 2006, Top 22 Employers in Jefferson County 2008, and Wage Statistics 2008 for the Olympic Peninsula region.  
Historic Employment Data 2000-2008 (.xls)
Historic Industry Data 1990-2008 (.xls)
Jefferson County Economic Assessment - University of Washington (.doc)
Inventory of Energy Usage and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Jefferson County 2005 (.pdf)

 

Data by County in Washington

Changing Ages.pdf (2000)   download
College Earnings.pdf (2002)   download
Jobless Recovery.pdf (2003)   download

Data for Washingon State

Number and Trends is a tool that gives you a single point access for the top economic indicators for each county in the state.  It provides a snapshot of the workforce. You can get more details for any of the data items by clicking on the chart or hyperlinks in the tables. Click on the area you want information on and it will take you to a county dashboard: fortress.wa.gov/esd/lmea/countydashboard/

These reports reflect changes in the year to year actual data and do not reflect budgets in any way. Official April 1, 2008 State of Washington Population Estimates- Provided by the Office of Financial Management
Cash Balance.xls (2008)    download
    The unreserved cash balance for June is about $892,274 more than the same month last year.  The larger cash balance this year is, at least partially, the result of higher property tax collections, better DNR Timber revenue, and the fact that the $500,000 loan to the Clocktower Fund was not repaid until late last summer.

General Sales Tax Receipts.xls (2008)     download
    May's receipts are down by 4.61% from the same month last year.  Year to Date receipts are down by 0.07%; while the percent is small, this is the first time the YTD change has been negative in more than 5 years.  We seem to be back in the "up one month, then down the next" cycle that we have been experiencing for most of the time since September of 2006. 
 

Real Estate Excise Tax Receipts.xls (2008)   download
May's receipts show a 38.65% decrease from the same month last year.  Although March and April showed positive gains, May & June have fallen back into the more persistent pattern of decline that has been in place for most of the last 39 months.  Year to Date receipts are down by 22.20%.

Hotel/Motel Lodging Tax Receipts.xls (2008)   download
    May's receipts show a decrease of 0.53% when compared to the same month last year.  Year to Date receipts are up by 10.74%.  The last 4 months of receipts have shown an aggregate decrease in revenue.

Washington State Labor Market and Economic Report 2007 (.pdf)

Sites to get other data
 

Many Communities and Counties prepare fact sheets with relevant community and economic information. These county/community profiles come in a
 

variety of shapes and sizes but the following represents a sampling of County profiles, or data that you might want to include in a profile. Obviously, thought should be given to the intended audience for the profiles before making a decision about what to include in your community profile.

The International Economic Development Council has actually given this issue a lot of attention and has developed a set of site selection data standards which include 25 tables containing approximately 1,200 data fields for state, county, metro, locality, building and site profiles. You can download the data standards worksheet in Excel format from their web site. 

• Bureau of Economic Analysis, downloadable economic data.
  • BearFacts (2006), U.S. Department of Commerce
• Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.
• CIA World Fact Book, Country-by-country perspective on the world economy
• Community Economic Toolbox (2000), Developed by Penn State University.
• Community Indicators, by the Center for Community Economic Development
• Community Economic Development HotReport - The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), the Economic Development Administration (EDA), the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) and the U.S. Census Bureau collaboratively designed the CED HotReport with local and regional experts to help communities and businesses plan for economic expansions and contractions using the best available information.
• Conerly Consulting, Pacific Northwest's best-known regional economists
• DataPlace, A "one-stop" source for data about your community or any place in the US developed specifically for housing and community development professionals.. A KnowledgePlex product sponsored by the Fannie Mae Foundation. Look up demographic, economic, housing, and mortgage lending data from US Census, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, and other data sets. Click here for a ten minute on-line video where I demonstrate how to begin using this site!
• EconData.Net, Includes a thousand links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider, to point users to the best regional economic data sources.
• Economagic.com, 200,000 data files with charts & spreadsheets
• Economic Census (2002), The Economic Census profiles American business every 5 years, from the national to the local level.
  
  • American Factfinder, U.S. Census
  • County Quick Facts, by the U.S. Census
  • Foreign-Trade Stats, Census Bureau
  • On the Map - An interactive mapping application that shows in high definition where people live and where they work. This application was developed through a partnership between the US Census Bureau and its Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partner states.
     
  • Tiger Maps (Base Maps) (1990), U.S. Census
• Energy Information Administration, Official energy statistics
• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, A useful series on house prices
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Banking and economic statistics from the folks who insure your bank deposits
• Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Semiannual survey of economists
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Economic Statistics
• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Economic Statistics on Western states
• Freddie Mac, Conventional home-price index
• GPOAccess, Economic Report of the President
• Location Quotient Calculator (2006), U.S. Department of Labor
• National Center for Health Statistics, Vital statistics for the U.S.
   
• Quarterly Workforce Indicators: U.S. Census, NAICS data by year and quarter. QWI measure the performance of the local economy - where jobs are, for what kind of workers, how much workers can expect to make and employers expect to pay them.
• Seattle PI- Wage comparisons by occupation
• Shift-Share Analysis Calculator (2006), University of Georgia
• Social Explorer (2000), Provides demographic information in an easily understood format: data maps. 
   
• Sonoran Institute's Economic Profile System (EPS), Produce customized socio-economic profiles for any geography in the United States.The profile contains tables and figures that illustrate long-term trends in population, employment, personal income, business development, retirement, commuting patterns, agriculture and more.
   
• State of the Cities Database (SOCDS), HUD provides data on Building Permits, FBI crime rates, housing affordability, and other demographic data.
• White House, briefing for economic statistics
• World Mapper, A great tool for gaining a better perspective of the global market place.

Agriculture Data
 

• Census of Agriculture (2007), United States Department of Agriculture . The Census of Agriculture is done every 5 years.
   
• Economic Research Service/U.S. Department of Agriculture.  See also, "Rural America at a Glance"

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