2017 Manufacturing Highlights

Thursday, October 12, 2017

With 31,211 jobs at 601 establishments, manufacturing is still the largest employing industry in the 23-county Southwest Minnesota region, just ahead of health care and social assistance. It is the only region in the state where manufacturing is still the leading industry. Manufacturing accounts for 17.6 percent of total employment in the Southwest region, making it over 6 percent more concentrated than in the state as a whole, where 11.3 percent of total jobs are in manufacturing.

After seeing steady job growth from 2010 to 2015, manufacturers in Southwest Minnesota sliced 405 jobs in the past year, a decline of 1.3 percent. However, the region still has about 800 more manufacturing jobs than it did in 2010, at the bottom of the recession.

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Category: Manufacturing