Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

Beaumont-Port Arthur Metro Area industry wages have increased by 23.4% percent since 2001

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From the second quarter of 2001 to the second quarter of 2006, industry wages have increased in the Beaumont-Port Arthur Metro Area by a total of 23.4%. This is greater than the growth in industry wages for Texas and greater than the growth in industry wages for the nation as a whole.

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Datasource: U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). Private Sector Employment Only.

Beaumont-Port Arthur Metro Area Industry Wages Lag Behind Texas, and Wages Lag Behind the United States Industry Wages

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The overall industry wages in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX can be understood as being relatively high when analyzed with other Metro Areas in the United States. The overall wages are 9.9 percent lower than the state, which accounted an average of $41,186. The average industry wage was less than the overall average in the United States of $40,259.

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Datasource: U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). Private Sector Employment Only.

Beaumont-Port Arthur Five-Year Industry Employment Change

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Of the 42 industries (4-digit NAICS) with sufficient data reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in each quarter, 17 accounted an for increase in employment during the period and 25 industry sectors reported declines during the time period.

Total Five-Year Employment Growth in the Beaumont-Port Arthur Metro Area

The Support activities for water transportation industry has brought the most jobs with a total of 1,315 new jobs created in the period. The job growth in the Support activities for water transportation industry makes up 18.6 percent of the total employment growth in Beaumont-Port Arthur.

Top 5 Industries
1. Support activities for water transportation (1,315 new jobs)
2. Architectural and engineering services (1,205 new jobs)
3. Computer systems design and related services (623 new jobs)
4. Limited-service eating places (591 new jobs)
5. Residential building construction (513 new jobs)

In the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro area, the aggregate employment for all industry sectors has increased by 3,359 total jobs between the 2nd Quarter of 2001 and 2nd Quarter of 2006.

Total Five-Year Employment Decline in the Beaumont-Port Arthur Metro Area

From of the area's 4-digit NAICS industries, the Nonresidential building construction industry faced the greatest employment loss with a total loss of 1,295 jobs during the time period. The jobs lost in the Nonresidential building construction industry make up 28.3 percent of the total job loss in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX.

Top 5 Industries
1. Nonresidential building construction (1,295 jobs lost)
2. Resin, rubber, and artificial fibers mfg. (705 jobs lost)
3. Building equipment contractors (552 jobs lost)
4. Home health care services (347 jobs lost)
5. Automobile dealers (295 jobs lost)

The Beaumont-Port Arthur Metro Area: Five-Year Percentage Decline in Employment

The Electronic markets and agents and brokers industry has lost the biggest percent of jobs, losing 37 percent from 2001 (Q2) to 2006 (Q2). The losses of the area have declined faster than the industry sector has felt in the State of Texas, where the industry sector experienced a gain of 26.7 percent. The losses in the Electronic markets and agents and brokers industry in Beaumont-Port Arthur outpaced the United States in terms of percentage decline of industry employment. In this period, the United States gained 29.2 percent in terms of employment in the Electronic markets and agents and brokers industry.

Top 5 Industries
1. Electronic markets and agents and brokers (37 percent decline)
2. Resin, rubber, and artificial fibers mfg. (28.3 percent decline)
3. Printing and related support activities (25.2 percent decline)
4. General freight trucking (20.8 percent decline)
5. Nonresidential building construction (20 percent decline)

The Beaumont-Port Arthur Metro Area: Five-Year Percentage Growth in Employment

The Unclassified industry has gone through the largest job growth by percent, increasing by 422.1 percent from 2001 (2nd quarter) to 2006 (2nd quarter). This industry sector in Beaumont-Port Arthur has increased employment faster than the industry job growth experienced in Texas, where the industry felt a gain of 222.1 percent. The Unclassified industry in Beaumont-Port Arthur outpaced the national average, which felt a gained 1.7 percent of the industry employment.

Top 5 Industries
1. Unclassified (422.1 percent gain)
2. Computer systems design and related services (329.5 percent gain)
3. Support activities for water transportation (249.1 percent gain)
4. Residential building construction (145.8 percent gain)
5. Management and technical consulting services (110.4 percent gain)

Employment for all industries has increased by 2.6 percent from 2001 (2nd Quarter). These figures are less than percent in the State of Texas, which went through a gain of 4.8 percent since the 2nd Quarter of 2001. The gains were greater than than the gain experienced overall in the US of 2.6 percent.

Beaumont-Port Arthur One-Year Industry Employment Change

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Total One-Year Employment Growth in the Beaumont-Port Arthur Metro Area

The Nonresidential building construction industry has grown the most with 816 new jobs created in the period. The job growth in the Nonresidential building construction industry makes up 19.0 percent of the total employment growth in Beaumont-Port Arthur.

Top 5 Industries
1. Nonresidential building construction (816 new jobs)
2. Architectural and engineering services (753 new jobs)
3. Building equipment contractors (374 new jobs)
4. Residential building construction (338 new jobs)
5. Limited-service eating places (298 new jobs)

Total One-Year Employment Decline in the Beaumont-Port Arthur Metro Area

Given the industries in the area, the Home health care services industry has lost the most employment with a total loss of 418 jobs. The declines in the Home health care services industry make up 20.1 percent of the jobs lost during the period in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX.

Top 5 Industries
1. Home health care services (418 jobs lost)
2. Nursing care facilities (316 jobs lost)
3. Other ambulatory health care services (227 jobs lost)
4. Legal services (206 jobs lost)
5. Accounting and bookkeeping services (148 jobs lost)

In the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro area, the entire sum of jobs in all of the industries has increased by 5,151 total jobs between the 2nd Quarter of 2005 and 2nd Quarter of 2006.

Given the 68 industries with industry data reported by the BLS in each quarter, 33 reported job growth in the duration of the year and 35 industry sectors reported declines during the time period.

The Beaumont-Port Arthur Metro Area: One-Year Percentage Growth in Employment

The Unclassified industry has gone through the largest job growth by percent, increasing by 108.2 percent from 2005 (2nd quarter) to 2006 (2nd quarter). This industry sector in Beaumont-Port Arthur has expanded faster than the industry has grown in the State of Texas, where it saw a gain of 28.8 percent. The Unclassified industry in Beaumont-Port Arthur outpaced the US in terms of percent growth of industry employment. During this period, the US gained 12.1 percent.

Top 5 Industries
1. Unclassified (108.2 percent gain)
2. Residential building construction (64.2 percent gain)
3. Business support services (35.2 percent gain)
4. Architectural and engineering services (33.0 percent gain)
5. Boiler, tank, and shipping container mfg. (31.7 percent gain)

The Beaumont-Port Arthur Metro Area: One-Year Percentage Decline in Employment

The Wireless telecommunications carriers industry has lost the largest percent of jobs, losing 36.1 percent from 2005 (2nd Quarter) to 2006 (2nd Quarter). These losses have declined faster than the industry has seen in the Texas, where the industry reported a gain of 1.8 percent. The losses in the Wireless telecommunications carriers industry in Beaumont-Port Arthur outpaced the United States industry losses overall. During this period, the United States gained 4.5 in percent of jobs in the Wireless telecommunications carriers industry.

Top 5 Industries
1. Wireless telecommunications carriers (36.1 percent decline)
2. Other ambulatory health care services (29 percent decline)
3. Accounting and bookkeeping services (22 percent decline)
4. Direct selling establishments (16.5 percent decline)
5. Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying (15.7 percent decline)

Total industry employment has increased by 4.1 percent since the 2nd Quarter of 2005. This is greater than growth in the State of Texas, which went through a gain of 4 percent from the 2nd Quarter of 2005. The gains the area experienced were greater than than the gain experienced overall in the US of 2 percent.

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Datasource: U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). Private Sector Employment Only.

Income and Poverty in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

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When put side-by-side with other Metros throughout the United States, the Beaumont-Port Arthur metro area may be understood as having a relatively high rate of poverty among its population, accounting a rate of 15.7 percent of the population with family incomes below the 1999 poverty level. The Black or African American race/ethnicity population category, holds the highest rate of poverty with 31.3 percent of the people in 2000 living in poverty. The population that is aged Under 5 years are experiencing most percent people in poverty in Beaumont-Port Arthur, accounting 25.2 percent of this age cohort living in poverty.

Compared to other MSAs throughout the nation, the Beaumont-Port Arthur metro area reported a medium-low median income for households of $41,733 (2005 Dollars). This median is 11.9 percent lower than the household income median in State of Texas of $46,715 and this is 17.7 percent lower than the median household income in the United States of $49,133.

The household income has declined from the 2000 values (inflation adjusted). The median income has decreased to $37,623, which amounts to a 9.8 percent decline. The Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX MSA, when comparing total percent of decline, ranks 13 of 22 metro area in percent of decline for income levels in the State of Texas. Beaumont-Port Arthur ranks 82 of 233 metro area in terms of the decline in median household income in the United States.

While household income level experienced a decline from 2000 to 2005 in the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro area, the Race/Ethnicity group that experienced the largest decline in median household income was the Hispanic category. This category saw a decline of 22.8 percent since the year 2000. The Asian population category was least influenced by the median household income decline in Beaumont-Port Arthur, seeing a 140.3 percent increase in household income level, since the year 2005.

The households that were headed by an American Indian and Alaska Native individual in Beaumont-Port Arthur reported an income level of $40,352, this median was 3.3 percent less than the median for all households. In Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX White headed households reported a median household income (2005 Dollars) of $47,448 according to the 2000 Dencennial Census, which was 13.7 percent greater than the median in 2000. Black or African American householders reported household income levels that were 38.3 percent less than the all population median published in the 2000 Census, with a median of $25,749. Hispanic households in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX recorded a median income of $38,332, this median household income is 8.1 percent less than the reported median household income for all households in the area. The Asian householders in the area have reported their median household incomes at $45,976. This household income level is 10.2 percent greater than the reported median household income for all households in the area.

The poverty rate in the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX Metro has increased by 1.0 percent from the rates reported in the Decennial Census, moving from 15.7 percent to 16.7 percent.

Datasource: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2000 Decennial Census. 2005 American Community Survey.

Higher Education in the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX Metro Area

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The American Community Survey reported that in the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX Metro Area, the most common level of education achieved in the area for the male population is the High School Diploma category, with 40 percent obtaining this level of education. The women in the Beaumont-Port Arthur metro area on average have achieved a lower level of higher education (Bachelors or Higher) than the men in the area: 17 percent (Men) versus 15.6 percent (Women). The most common level of education for women in the area is High School Diploma category, with 35.8 percent of the female population achieving this education level.

In the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX Metro Area as reported in the American Community Survey of the year 2005, 18 percent of the White Alone, 9.2 percent of Black or African American, 56.8 percent of the Asian alone and 6.2 percent of the Hispanic or Latino (+25) population has achieved at least a Bachelors Degree.

Between 2000 and 2005, the percent of the male population that can be understood as highly educated has increased by 2.0 percent. By the year 2005, 17 percent of area's male population, over the age 25, achieved a Bachelors Degree or Higher. At the same time, the percent of women, over the age 25, holding at least a Bachelors Degree has increased by a total of 1.0 percent. By 2005, a total of 15.6 percent of the total female population achieved this high level of education.

Since the year 2000, the Beaumont-Port Arthur metro area has increased in the percent of the total population (+25) with a BA or Higher. The portion of this population has grown by 1.4 percent to a total of 16.2 percent in 2005, according to the American Community Survey. The 2005 proportion of highly educated population is less than the 2005 State of Texas percent of 25.2 and less than the US percent of 27.2.

Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX Metro Area may to understood as having a less-educated population, with 16.2 percent of the population (+25) having received at least a Bachelors Degree, as reported in the 2005 American Community Survey. The Beaumont-Port Arthur MSA is reported having a lower percent of the population with at least a Bachelors than the State of Texas's proportion of 25.2 percent and a lower percent than United States proportion of 27.2 percent.

Datasource: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2000 Decennial Census. 2005 American Community Survey.

Demographic Profile for Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

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By measuring total land area, the Beaumont-Port Arthur metro area encompasses a total area of 2154 square miles. This area has a medium-low population density of 178 persons per square mile, in 2005. Other US metro areas with similar densities include: -- more densely populated -- Columbus (181 per sq. mile ), Des Moines (181 per sq. mile ), Baton Rouge (182 per sq. mile ), -- less densely populated -- Greenville (177 per sq. mile ), Napa (176 per sq. mile ), Springfield (174 per sq. mile ).

The Beaumont-Port Arthur metro area had an estimated population of 383,530 in 2005. The estimated population has decreased, since its 2000 population of 384,773. The decline signifies a decrease of -0.3 percent. Beaumont-Port Arthur ranks 23 of 25 MSAs when analyzing total population change in Texas and the metro area ranks 324 of 361 metro areas when analyzing total MSA population change across the nation.

Estimated since the year 2000, a medium-high number of individuals have migrated into the Beaumont-Port Arthur metro area, with 3,189 people migrating in from outside the country. The immigration into Beaumont-Port Arthur totals 0.5 percent of the total international migration into the State of Texas. This amount of international migration is medium-high when compared to international migration per 2005 population.

The Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan statistical area (MSA) has a population that is made up of 61.9 percent White, 25.3 percent African American, 2.1 percent Asian, and 9.5 percent Hispanic. The area population base can be described as having a high level of racial and ethnic diversity, with 36.9 percent of the population being minorities. This is less than the State of Texas percent of 49.5. Since 2000, Beaumont-Port Arthur has increased the percent of minority makeup when 34.9 percent of the people were minorities.

The Census Bureau estimates in 2005 the median age in the Beaumont-Port Arthur metro area to be 36.9 years of age. The median age in Beaumont-Port Arthur is greater than the median in Texas of 33.2. From 2000, the area has seen an increase in the median, when the median age was 35.6 years of age. With a total of 9.5 percent of the population in the year 2005 being made up of individuals less than 18 years old, Beaumont-Port Arthur can be described as having a medium-high percent of individuals under 18. The working age population group (18-64) has a medium-low presence of the population, with 61.6 percent of the population makes up this age category. The retirement (65 and over) age group comprises 13.4 percent of the population in the area. When compared to other metro areas throughout the United States, this represents a medium-low proportion of the population.

Datasource: Population Estimates Program, U.S. Bureau of the Census.

Housing Report for Beaumont-Port Arthur

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In Beaumont-Port Arthur, the U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division accounted for a total of 162,168 homes in 2005. The metro area has experienced a medium level of growth in the number housing units, adding a total of 4,028 housing units since the year 2001, or 2.5 percent.

The residential housing values in Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas have experienced moderate increases since their reported values in 2000. The values have increased by $11,400, or 18.2 percent, from their 2000 median values of $62,500.

Beaumont-Port Arthur had an owner-occupied dwelling median in 2005 of $73,900, reported by the American Community Survey. This home value is less than the Texas 2005 median owner-occupied dwelling value of $106,000 and less than median home value of $167,500 for the rest of the nation in that year.

Beaumont-Port Arthur has a small, but present proportion of high-valued homes. For the year 2005, the American Community Survey reports that 0.6 percent of the houses were valued over a half a million dollars.

When comparing areas across the State of Texas, Beaumont-Port Arthur places 19 of the 25 metro areas in terms of growth of new housing structures between 2001 and 2005. The MSA stands 292 of 361, comparing the percentage change in residential real estate in other US MSAs.

According to the data, there is a large amount of housing that is affordable in Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas. In 2005, 78 percent of owner-occupied dwellings were valued under $125k.

Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Employment Report for Beaumont, Texas -- Annual 2005 Industry Summary

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In Beaumont, Health care and social assistance, Retail Trade, and the Manufacturing sectors are the largest industries, in terms of total number of jobs in 2005. The Health care and social assistance provides the most jobs and contributes 16.7 percent of total employment in the Metro Area, making up 20,882 people employed. The Retail Trade and Manufacturing industries make up 15.8 and 15.3 percent of total employment, respectively.

A top paying industry in Beaumont is the utilities sector with an annual pay of $90,533. Throughout the MSA since the year 2001, the annual average wages in the industry have grown by 32.4 percent or $22,155. The State of Texas has a similar job market in the utilities sector, placing near the top of sectors by 2004 industry pay.

Manufacturing is the industry with the largest establishments in Beaumont Metropolitan Area (MSA), averaging 50 workers per each place of employment, being greater than the US industry average of 39 and greater than the Texas establishments size average of 38 for the Manufacturing industry.

The Beaumont-Port Arthur Metropolitan Area is ranked at 137 of 363 throughout the US in terms the size of total employment in 2005. This ranking has slipped behind during the time of 2001 and 2005. The Metropolitan Area, in the year 2001, was ranked 130 of 363 Counties.

Construction saw the largest loss of employment between the years 2001-2005 in the Beaumont Metropolitan Area. The industry was hit with a loss of 2,749 jobs, or 16.9 percent of industry's employment. The industry declines made up 40.2 percent of all Metro Area employment losses since 2001.

In Beaumont, Mining, Construction and Utilities industries, in terms of United States location quotient, are the most dominant in the region. The Mining industry has a US LQ in the region of 1.77. The percent of employment in the Mining sector is 1.77 times greater than the US average, showing signs that Beaumont may be an exporter of products or services of Mining.

Mining saw the biggest increase in jobs since the year 2001 in Beaumont, growing by 100.7 percent. This is greater than the national employment change in the industry of 4.7 percent. The State of Texas underwent a employment change in the industry of 8.9 percent, since the year 2001.

Datasource: U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW).