2000 vs. 2017 Total Employment Growth and Change
Mississippi Employment Growth by County
2000 vs. 2017, Net Percent Change
Mississippi Employment Growth by County
Madison County 2000 vs. 2017
Net Percent Change = 112.77%
Rank = #1
Tunica County 2000 vs. 2017
Net Percent Change = -47.53%
Rank = #82
Simpson County 2000 vs. 2017
Net Percent Change = 4.04%
Rank = #31
With a spotlight on Simpson County, the chart above displays the distribution of the net percent change of employment across Mississippi's 82 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 forty-one Mississippi counties while declining in forty-one.
  • Employment growth in twenty-three counties outpaced the statewide average (7.85%), while growth in fifty-nine counties trailed.
  • At the extremes of the distribution, Madison County posted the highest growth of employment (112.77%), while Tunica County placed last by logging a -47.53% decline.
  • The spread in employment growth between the highest (Madison County, 112.77%) and lowest (Tunica County, -47.53%) over 2000-2017 equated to 160.30% ( = 112.77%-47.53%).
  • 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 Mississippi, Hinds County's net employment growth over 2000-2017 of -11,478 made up -9.90% of the total net growth statewide (115,903):

Hinds County: Percent Share of Mississippi's
Employment Growth, 2000-2017:

-9.90% = (-11,478 / 115,903) x 100
Simpson County Snippets:
  • Over 2000-2017, Simpson County posted a 4.04% net gain in employment.
  • Simpson County was joined by fifty-eight other counties whose employment growth over 2000-2017 registered below the statewide average (7.85%).
  • Ranked #31 among Mississippi's 82 counties, Simpson County's employment growth (4.04%) trailed the statewide average of 7.85% by a 3.81% margin.
  • Simpson County's net employment growth (4.04%, #31) over 2000-2017 registered just above that of Jackson County (3.58%, #32) and just below that of Lee County (4.22%, #30).
  • Simpson County's share of employment statewide slipped from 0.70% in 2000 to 0.68% in 2017, resulting in a share-shift of -0.02%.

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
More
than
30%
30%
to
20%
20%
to
10%
10%
to
0%
0%
to
-10%
-10%
to
-20%
-20%
to
-30%
-30%
or
Below
Total
2000 vs. 2017
7
3
9
22
19
12
8
2
82
 
     
Employment by County, 2017
Employment by County, 2017
Hinds County 2017
Employment = 169,808
Percent of State = 10.67%
Rank = #1
Issaquena County 2017
Employment = 438
Percent of State = 0.03%
Rank = #82
Simpson County 2017
Employment = 10,781
Percent of State = 0.68%
Rank = #37
Again highlighting Simpson County's position, the bar graph above displays the disposition by county of 2017 employment statewide (1,592,198).

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Statewide Snippets:
  • Ranked #1, Hinds County's 2017 employment totaled 169,808, equating to 10.67% of the statewide total.
  • Ranked last (#82), Issaquena County's employment of 438 in 2017 comprised just 0.03% of the total statewide. Issaquena County's employment in 2017 equates to less than .01% to that of Hinds County's.
  • Hinds County's 2017 employment (169,808) exceeded the combined employment (169,733) of Mississippi's thirty-six smallest counties.
Simpson County Snippets:
  • Simpson County's employment in 2017 ranked #37, amounting to 0.68% of the statewide total.
  • Simpson County's employment of 10,781 placed below that of Copiah County's (11,056, #36), and just above that of Prentiss County's (10,408, #38).
  • Simpson County's employment of 10,781 exceeds the combined total (9,255) of Mississippi's five smallest counties.
Employment by County, 2017
Employment by County, 2017
View Distribution Totals as: Actual Percent
     
 
County Distribution of Employment, 2017
More
than
50,000
50,000
to
40,000
40,000
to
30,000
30,000
to
20,000
20,000
to
10,000
10,000
or
Below
Total
2017
8
1
3
6
23
41
82
 
     

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Mississippi Employment by County:
2000 vs. 2017
 
2000
 
2017
 
2000 - 2017
 
 
 
 
18,362
1.24
 
16,012
1.01
 
-12.80
-2,350
-2.03
-0.24
 
18,051
1.22
 
19,637
1.23
 
8.79
1,586
1.37
0.01
 
5,129
0.35
 
3,947
0.25
 
-23.05
-1,182
-1.02
-0.10
 
8,729
0.59
 
7,146
0.45
 
-18.13
-1,583
-1.37
-0.14
 
2,484
0.17
 
2,213
0.14
 
-10.91
-271
-0.23
-0.03
 
16,900
1.14
 
16,349
1.03
 
-3.26
-551
-0.48
-0.12
 
6,429
0.44
 
5,432
0.34
 
-15.51
-997
-0.86
-0.09
 
2,413
0.16
 
2,902
0.18
 
20.27
489
0.42
0.02
 
10,286
0.70
 
7,890
0.50
 
-23.29
-2,396
-2.07
-0.20
 
3,286
0.22
 
3,319
0.21
 
1.00
33
0.03
-0.01
 
5,453
0.37
 
4,953
0.31
 
-9.17
-500
-0.43
-0.06
 
6,242
0.42
 
5,019
0.32
 
-19.59
-1,223
-1.06
-0.11
 
11,187
0.76
 
8,404
0.53
 
-24.88
-2,783
-2.40
-0.23
 
13,745
0.93
 
11,152
0.70
 
-18.87
-2,593
-2.24
-0.23
 
10,574
0.72
 
11,056
0.69
 
4.56
482
0.42
-0.02
 
7,602
0.51
 
8,340
0.52
 
9.71
738
0.64
0.01
 
48,144
3.26
 
88,340
5.55
 
83.49
40,196
34.68
2.29
 
47,991
3.25
 
54,185
3.40
 
12.91
6,194
5.34
0.15
 
2,616
0.18
 
2,754
0.17
 
5.28
138
0.12
0.00
 
6,512
0.44
 
7,721
0.48
 
18.57
1,209
1.04
0.04
 
3,802
0.26
 
3,550
0.22
 
-6.63
-252
-0.22
-0.03
 
14,220
0.96
 
14,067
0.88
 
-1.08
-153
-0.13
-0.08
 
20,040
1.36
 
20,629
1.30
 
2.94
589
0.51
-0.06
 
125,250
8.48
 
124,386
7.81
 
-0.69
-864
-0.75
-0.67
 
181,286
12.28
 
169,808
10.67
 
-6.33
-11,478
-9.90
-1.61
 
5,998
0.41
 
6,336
0.40
 
5.64
338
0.29
-0.01
 
5,028
0.34
 
3,720
0.23
 
-26.01
-1,308
-1.13
-0.11
 
674
0.05
 
438
0.03
 
-35.01
-236
-0.20
-0.02
 
7,946
0.54
 
8,564
0.54
 
7.78
618
0.53
0.00
 
65,306
4.42
 
67,641
4.25
 
3.58
2,335
2.01
-0.18
 
6,430
0.44
 
6,153
0.39
 
-4.31
-277
-0.24
-0.05
 
2,044
0.14
 
2,331
0.15
 
14.04
287
0.25
0.01
 
3,815
0.26
 
3,414
0.21
 
-10.51
-401
-0.35
-0.04
 
36,311
2.46
 
36,703
2.31
 
1.08
392
0.34
-0.15
 
2,964
0.20
 
3,884
0.24
 
31.04
920
0.79
0.04
 
22,201
1.50
 
35,525
2.23
 
60.02
13,324
11.50
0.73
 
17,513
1.19
 
29,150
1.83
 
66.45
11,637
10.04
0.64
 
45,692
3.10
 
45,816
2.88
 
0.27
124
0.11
-0.22
 
4,994
0.34
 
4,346
0.27
 
-12.98
-648
-0.56
-0.07
 
9,006
0.61
 
7,736
0.49
 
-14.10
-1,270
-1.10
-0.12
 
65,605
4.44
 
68,374
4.29
 
4.22
2,769
2.39
-0.15
 
20,084
1.36
 
19,219
1.21
 
-4.31
-865
-0.75
-0.15
 
16,786
1.14
 
18,093
1.14
 
7.79
1,307
1.13
0.00
 
34,966
2.37
 
35,070
2.20
 
0.30
104
0.09
-0.17
 
39,647
2.69
 
84,357
5.30
 
112.77
44,710
38.58
2.61
 
10,994
0.74
 
12,327
0.77
 
12.12
1,333
1.15
0.03
 
10,524
0.71
 
12,224
0.77
 
16.15
1,700
1.47
0.05
 
14,968
1.01
 
14,178
0.89
 
-5.28
-790
-0.68
-0.12
 
4,773
0.32
 
3,980
0.25
 
-16.61
-793
-0.68
-0.07
 
16,263
1.10
 
16,097
1.01
 
-1.02
-166
-0.14
-0.09
 
9,295
0.63
 
8,538
0.54
 
-8.14
-757
-0.65
-0.09
 
5,199
0.35
 
4,775
0.30
 
-8.16
-424
-0.37
-0.05
 
23,319
1.58
 
29,303
1.84
 
25.66
5,984
5.16
0.26
 
14,741
1.00
 
16,255
1.02
 
10.27
1,514
1.31
0.02
 
15,970
1.08
 
18,480
1.16
 
15.72
2,510
2.17
0.08
 
3,927
0.27
 
3,739
0.23
 
-4.79
-188
-0.16
-0.03
 
20,015
1.36
 
21,143
1.33
 
5.64
1,128
0.97
-0.03
 
14,379
0.97
 
17,208
1.08
 
19.67
2,829
2.44
0.11
 
11,099
0.75
 
10,408
0.65
 
-6.23
-691
-0.60
-0.10
 
2,818
0.19
 
2,209
0.14
 
-21.61
-609
-0.53
-0.05
 
64,498
4.37
 
89,635
5.63
 
38.97
25,137
21.69
1.26
 
15,319
1.04
 
17,303
1.09
 
12.95
1,984
1.71
0.05
 
2,222
0.15
 
2,064
0.13
 
-7.11
-158
-0.14
-0.02
 
10,362
0.70
 
10,781
0.68
 
4.04
419
0.36
-0.02
 
6,124
0.41
 
5,158
0.32
 
-15.77
-966
-0.83
-0.09
 
5,075
0.34
 
6,598
0.41
 
30.01
1,523
1.31
0.07
 
15,267
1.03
 
11,938
0.75
 
-21.81
-3,329
-2.87
-0.28
 
4,515
0.31
 
4,929
0.31
 
9.17
414
0.36
0.00
 
9,872
0.67
 
10,060
0.63
 
1.90
188
0.16
-0.04
 
10,064
0.68
 
10,400
0.65
 
3.34
336
0.29
-0.03
 
8,258
0.56
 
8,313
0.52
 
0.67
55
0.05
-0.04
 
18,864
1.28
 
9,898
0.62
 
-47.53
-8,966
-7.74
-0.66
 
12,361
0.84
 
15,311
0.96
 
23.87
2,950
2.55
0.12
 
5,134
0.35
 
4,844
0.30
 
-5.65
-290
-0.25
-0.04
 
30,988
2.10
 
26,314
1.65
 
-15.08
-4,674
-4.03
-0.45
 
29,700
2.01
 
23,533
1.48
 
-20.76
-6,167
-5.32
-0.53
 
8,432
0.57
 
8,321
0.52
 
-1.32
-111
-0.10
-0.05
 
4,852
0.33
 
3,806
0.24
 
-21.56
-1,046
-0.90
-0.09
 
2,855
0.19
 
3,109
0.20
 
8.90
254
0.22
0.00
 
8,543
0.58
 
7,759
0.49
 
-9.18
-784
-0.68
-0.09
 
4,960
0.34
 
4,925
0.31
 
-0.71
-35
-0.03
-0.03
 
10,003
0.68
 
10,254
0.64
 
2.51
251
0.22
-0.03
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1,476,295
100.00
 
1,592,198
100.00
 
7.85
115,903
100.00
0.00
 
702,476
47.58
 
817,417
51.34
 
16.36
114,941
99.17
3.76
 
773,819
52.42
 
774,781
48.66
 
0.12
962
0.83
-3.76
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Mississippi Regional Economic Analysis Project (MS-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis
November 2023
REAP_PI_CA1400_YRVYR_1000A
 
   
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