In data prepared exclusively for www.OC180NEWS.com, for the second month in a row, Orange County emerged as the county which created the most jobs so far this year of all California counties. In our exclusive analysis of California’s Employment Development Department job data, in May OC shot past Los Angeles County, which held the top spot through April.
Although the state reported yesterday statewide job losses totaled 7,800 in June, Orange County employment continued to improve. The increase in OC employment was only 1,800, but that monthly job gain was better than all but three other California counties.
The three other California counties which produced more jobs than OC in June over May were Santa Cruz (an increase of 3,100 jobs), Monterey ( 2,800 more jobs), and Santa Clara (2,000 increase in jobs). The June forth place finish for OC was better than the results in May when OC was ranked sixth in the state.
On a year to date bases, Orange County has produced a net of 37,100 new jobs so far. In December of 2009, OC households had 1,419,600 employed people. For June 2010, the total employed in OC was 1,456,700. The June employment is the highest since there were 1,472,000 employed back in May, 2009.
For California in total, there were 211,700 more people working in June 2010, than at the end of last year . Behind OC with the second most jobs created this year, was Monterey, with 25,200 more jobs. Monterey also did well in June.
The number three year to date job producing California county is San Diego, with 24,300 more jobs. But, we wouldn’t suggest moving south to look for employment – San Diego was the third biggest job loser for June. Their year to date positive numbers are the result of strong job growth earlier in the year. The poor showing for San Diego in June could be just a fluke, or it could indicate the turning of what had been a strong growth trend.
Fresno County so far this year has produced the fourth most jobs in California. Unlike San Diego, Fresno also showed moderate job growth in June, so there is not an indication the hiring improvement is over there. Santa Clara also did well for both the year to date (13,700 more jobs) and the month of June (2,000), ranking fifth and third respectively.
The top five job producing counties (Orange, Monterey, San Diego, Fresno, and Santa Clara) collectively added a total of 115,300 more jobs so far this year. That is 54% of the 211,700 new jobs throughout all of California. For just the month of June, the top five counties (Santa Cruz, Monterey, Santa Clara, Orange, and San Joaquin) collectively added 11,000 new jobs, while in total, the state lost 7,800 jobs when comparing June to May.
The biggest job loser for June was Los Angeles County, which saw employment fall by 5,900 positions. This loss in June brought LA’s year to date total to a negative 9,800 jobs, which is also the highest losses year to date of any California county. Even though the June job losses in LA were the worse of all counties, it was a much smaller loss than the 37,900 jobs LA lost in May.
Of course, with about 4.2 million workers, Los Angeles County is by far the largest employment market in the state. Thus, a routine statistical fluctuation for LA, would be in comparison to the other California counties, a large change. Orange and San Diego Counties are the next two largest California employment markets with about 1.4 million jobs each. After LA, OC, and SD, the jobs per county drops to less than 800,000, with 33 of California’s 58 counties each employing less than 100,000 people. Taken together, the big three – LA, OC, and SD – represent 44% of California’s 16 million employed people.
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Dolores Barr has lived in Rossmoor since 1992 and has created this site to provide local news for the people of Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, Rossmoor, Leisure World, Sunset Beach, and Surfside, California. My husband and I have had two students graduate from the Los Alamitos Unified School District and currently our Grandson, Ricky Apodaca, grade 3 at Weaver Elementary, is actively involved in youth baseball through LAYB and youth football through FNL.
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