Texas Politics - Government Employment Across Texas Counties, 2003

Federal
Employment




More than 180 thousand Texans worked for the federal government in Texas in 2003. The largest concentrations, as the left hand map shows, work in the state's major urban centers. But, as the map above right shows, the federal government tends to employ larger portions of the civilian population in border and south Texas counties as well as counties hosting or neighboring U.S. military installations.

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. Counties with major or minor military installations were identified, verified, and mapped using information gathered online from multiple sources including information from http://www.mapquest.com.

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Government employment in Texas counties