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Calumet, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Outagamie, Waupaca, Waushara, and Winnebago Counties
Contact the regional analyst: Kimberly Berg
County Profiles contains detailed labor market
information for individual counties within the entire state.
The Fox Valley region is composed
of seven counties in the East Central area of Wisconsin: Calumet,
Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Outagamie, Waupaca, Waushara, and Winnebago. Two of these seven counties
(Outagamie & Calumet) comprise the
Appleton metropolitan statistical area (MSA). The
Fond du Lac MSA (Fond du Lac County) and Oshkosh-Neenah MSA
(Winnebago County) are the other two MSAs located in the Fox Valley.
- The seven-county region has a combined land area of 3,853 square miles, seven percent of Wisconsin's total land area and a combined water area 316 square miles, three percent of the statewide total water area.
- The Fox Valley's population estimate for 2006 was 580,923, ten percent of Wisconsin's total population.
- The population density for the region is approximately 151 people per square mile.
- In 2006 the WDA's labor force consisted of 322,703 participants (10.5% of Wisconsin's force) with 307,679 employed.
- The annual unemployment rate for the region in 2006 was 4.7 percent, mirroring the statewide annual rate.
- The annual average number of jobs in the Fox Valley was 284,443 in 2006. Manufacturing is the region's largest employment sector at approximately 23 percent of the total job base.
- The 2006 annual average wage paid by employers in the region was $35,530 or $1,300 less than the statewide annual average.
- Fox Valley's per capita personal income in 2005 was $32,322 or $956 less than Wisconsin.
- Fox Valley's total job base of 284,443 compared to Wisconsin's total job base of 2,764,813 is distributed as follows:
Fox Valley Wisconsin Manufacturing 23% 18% Trade, Transportation & Utilities 19% 20% Education & Health 18% 20% Leisure & Hospitality 9% 10% Professional & Business Services 9% 10% Construction 6% 5% Financial Activities 5% 6% Public Administration 4% 5% Other Services 3% 3% Natural Resources 1% 1% In particular, the counties of Calumet, Fond du Lac, Waupaca, and Winnebago cater to the leisure & hospitality sector; Green Lake has a large share of employment in health & education; Outagamie and Waushara counties encompass a large share of employment in the trade, transportation, & utilities sector.
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Updated: June 03, 2009
Office of Economic Advisors