2000 vs. 2017 Total Employment Growth and Change
Connecticut Employment Growth by County
2000 vs. 2017, Net Percent Change
Connecticut Employment Growth by County
Fairfield County 2000 vs. 2017
Net Percent Change = 13.93%
Rank = #1
Litchfield County 2000 vs. 2017
Net Percent Change = 0.13%
Rank = #8
Tolland County 2000 vs. 2017
Net Percent Change = 12.07%
Rank = #2
With a spotlight on Tolland County, the chart above displays the distribution of the net percent change of employment across Connecticut's 8 counties over the period 2000-2017.
Those counties whose employment growth registered above the statewide average over this period realized an increase in their statewide share of employment. Likewise, those counties whose employment growth registered below the statewide average experienced a decline in their relative share of employment statewide.
Statewide Snippets:
  • Over 2000-2017 employment grew in all 8 Connecticut counties.
  • Employment growth in three counties outpaced the statewide average (8.60%), while growth in five counties trailed.
  • At the extremes of the distribution, Fairfield County posted the highest growth of employment (13.93%), while Litchfield County placed last by logging a 0.13% gain.
  • The spread in employment growth between the highest (Fairfield County, 13.93%) and lowest (Litchfield County, 0.13%) over 2000-2017 equated to 13.79% ( = 13.93%0.13%).
  • Employment growth statewide is but a weighted metric that stems from each county's share of employment statewide. On this point, as the largest county in Connecticut, Fairfield County's net employment growth over 2000-2017 of 80,457 made up 44.18% of the total net growth statewide (182,096):

Fairfield County: Percent Share of Connecticut's
Employment Growth, 2000-2017:

44.18% = (80,457 / 182,096) x 100
Tolland County Snippets:
  • Over 2000-2017, Tolland County posted a 12.07% net gain in employment.
  • Tolland County was joined by two other counties whose employment growth over 2000-2017 registered above the statewide average (8.60%).
  • Ranked #2 among Connecticut's 8 counties, Tolland County's employment growth (12.07%) outperformed the statewide average of 8.60% by a 3.47% margin.
  • Tolland County's net employment growth (12.07%, #2) over 2000-2017 registered just above that of Middlesex County (9.05%, #3) and just below that of Fairfield County (13.93%, #1).
  • Tolland County's share of employment statewide rose from 2.70% in 2000 to 2.78% in 2017, resulting in a share-shift of 0.09%.

Data Definition

The BEA employment series for states and local areas comprises estimates of the number of jobs, full-time plus part-time, by place of work. Full-time and part-time jobs are counted at equal weight. Employees, sole proprietors, and active partners are included, but unpaid family workers and volunteers are not included. Proprietors employment consists of the number of sole proprietorships and the number of partners in partnerships. The description "by place of work" applies to the wage and salary portion of the series and, with relatively little error, to the entire series. The proprietors employment portion of the series, however, is more nearly by place of residence because, for nonfarm sole proprietorships, the estimates are based on IRS tax data that reflect the address from which the proprietor's individual tax return is filed, which is usually the proprietor's residence. The nonfarm partnership portion of the proprietors employment series reflects the tax-filing address of the partnership, which may be either the residence of one of the partners or the business address of the partnership. The employment estimates are designed to be consistent with the estimates of wages and salaries and proprietors' income that are part of the personal income series. The employment estimates are based on the same sets of source data as the corresponding earnings estimates and are prepared with parallel methodologies. Two forms of proprietors' income-the income of limited partnerships and the income of tax-exempt cooperatives-have no corresponding employment estimates.

United States. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Income Division.
Regional Definitions. 2023. Web.
https://apps.bea.gov/regional/definitions/

Employment Growth by County
2000 vs. 2017, Net Percent Change
Employment Growth by County
View Distribution Totals as: Actual Percent
     
 
County Distribution of Employment Growth, 2000 vs. 2017
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Employment by County, 2017
Employment by County, 2017
Fairfield County 2017
Employment = 658,198
Percent of State = 28.61%
Rank = #1
Windham County 2017
Employment = 53,412
Percent of State = 2.32%
Rank = #8
Tolland County 2017
Employment = 64,018
Percent of State = 2.78%
Rank = #7
Again highlighting Tolland County's position, the bar graph above displays the disposition by county of 2017 employment statewide (2,300,273).

Interactive TableTip: Although the visual profile of the bar chart remains unchanged you may opt to display the actual total by using the "Select Indicator" options above the graph

Statewide Snippets:
  • Ranked #1, Fairfield County's 2017 employment totaled 658,198, equating to 28.61% of the statewide total.
  • Ranked last (#8), Windham County's employment of 53,412 in 2017 comprised just 2.32% of the total statewide. Windham County's employment in 2017 equates to just 8.1% to that of Fairfield County's.
  • Fairfield County's 2017 employment (658,198) exceeded the combined employment (479,761) of Connecticut's five smallest counties.
Tolland County Snippets:
  • Tolland County's employment in 2017 ranked #7, amounting to 2.78% of the statewide total.
  • Tolland County's employment of 64,018 placed below that of Litchfield County's (95,697, #6), and just above that of Windham County's (53,412, #8).
Employment by County, 2017
Employment by County, 2017
View Distribution Totals as: Actual Percent
     
 
County Distribution of Employment, 2017
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Interactive TableTip: To augment your analysis click on the column headers in the following table to rank and/or sort the data.

   
 
Connecticut Employment by County:
2000 vs. 2017
 
2000
 
2017
 
2000 - 2017
 
 
 
 
577,741
27.28
 
658,198
28.61
 
13.93
80,457
44.18
1.34
 
615,061
29.04
 
656,110
28.52
 
6.67
41,049
22.54
-0.51
 
95,571
4.51
 
95,697
4.16
 
0.13
126
0.07
-0.35
 
90,098
4.25
 
98,253
4.27
 
9.05
8,155
4.48
0.02
 
470,567
22.22
 
506,204
22.01
 
7.57
35,637
19.57
-0.21
 
162,098
7.65
 
168,381
7.32
 
3.88
6,283
3.45
-0.33
 
57,125
2.70
 
64,018
2.78
 
12.07
6,893
3.79
0.09
 
49,916
2.36
 
53,412
2.32
 
7.00
3,496
1.92
-0.03
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2,118,177
100.00
 
2,300,273
100.00
 
8.60
182,096
100.00
0.00
 
2,022,606
95.49
 
2,204,576
95.84
 
9.00
181,970
99.93
0.35
 
95,571
4.51
 
95,697
4.16
 
0.13
126
0.07
-0.35
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
165,370,800
 
196,394,100
 
18.76
31,023,300
 
142,396,424
 
172,909,128
 
21.43
30,512,704
 
22,974,376
 
23,484,972
 
2.22
510,596
Source: Calculations by the Connecticut Regional Economic Analysis Project (CT-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis
November 2023
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