Where Are the Transportation and Warehousing Jobs?
One way to determine the location of jobs is to look at employment by county. As expected, Marion County holds the lion’s share of these jobs, far surpassing all other counties with 37,276 jobs in 2003:3, or 6.5 percent of total employment in the county. Coming in second is Allen County at 8,244 (4.7 percent). Lake County is third with 7,244 jobs (3.8 percent) and fourth is Vanderburgh County with 5,153 jobs (4.8 percent). This author wonders whether Vanderburgh County will rank higher in future decades, given the eventual construction of the I-69 extension in the next 10 to 15 years. To examine the concentration of these jobs, let’s focus on the percentage of total covered employment (see Figure 2). Wells County tops this list at 15.5 percent, well above the state average of 4.3 percent. Jackson County is next at 12.7 percent. Other counties with relatively high concentrations include Martin County (11.3 percent), Clark County (11.1 percent), Hendricks County (9.4 percent) and Crawfor
