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Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Iron, Price, Rusk, Sawyer, Taylor and Washburn Counties
Contact the regional analyst: Scott Hodek
Data
Dashboard contains statewide and regional analyses on current
issues coupled with easy to use data tools, all at your fingertips.
Regional profile (PDF,
250KB) contains detailed labor market information for an entire region.
Revised April 2005.
County Profiles contains detailed labor market information for individual counties within the state.
The
The Northwest Wisconsin region is composed of 10 counties; Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Iron, Price, Rusk, Sawyer, Taylor and Washburn. The region covers over 7 million acres, roughly 19 percent of the land surface in the state. Nearly 4.8 million acres are covered with forests, another 247,000 acres are under water and over a million acres are in farms. Roughly 114,000 acres are in the region's four Chippewa reservations: Bad River, Lac Courte Oreilles, Red Cliff, and St. Croix. The regional economy is as diverse as the geography it covers.
The economies range from manufacturing to tourism and recreation to transportation and shipping to health services. The counties of Burnett, Price, Rusk, and Taylor have a large manufacturing base; Bayfield, Iron, and Sawyer cater to tourism traffic; Ashland supplies regional health services; Douglas is a transportation spur and retail provider; and Washburn is central for many government agencies. Together the employers in all industries in the region provided more than 74,000 jobs in 2005.
The population of the region in 2005 was 185,400, an increase of 2.6 percent since 2000 and 9.8 percent since 1990. Since 2000 the population increased 1.7 percent to 182,991 in 2002. All of the increase in the last 15 years has been from new residents moving to the area.
In 2005, the region's labor force of 98,500 included 92,900 employed residents. The unemployment rate for Northwest Wisconsin in 2005 of 5.6 percent is down but still higher than the 4.7 percent rate from 2000.
The linked PDF files require the Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have the most current version, you can download Acrobat Reader from the Adobe website at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
Updated:
July 07, 2008
Office of Economic Advisors
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