Texas Politics - Government Employment Across Texas Counties, 2003

Total
Employment




More than 1.4 million Texans worked for federal, state, and local governments in Texas as of 2003. As the left hand map shows, the largest numbers of government employees live and work in the state's major population centers. But, as the map on the right shows, governments employ much larger portions of the population in more western and rural counties.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Texas State Data Center. (full source)

Full Source: Civilian government wage and employment data for 2003 is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Employment and Wages (CEW). The raw data file for Texas is at ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cew/2003/county/cn48tx03.zip, accessed June 3, 2005. See the links at the CEW homepage at http://www.bls.gov/cew/cewover.htm for further information. 2003 Texas county population estimates are available online from the Texas State Data Center at http://txsdc.utsa.edu/tpepp/2003_txpopest_county.csv, accessed June 3, 2005. Note that in the 2003 CEW data, out of total employment of more than 9.2 million, about 74,000 employees could not be placed in any or any one county. These are excluded from the mapped totals and percentages.

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Government employment in Texas counties