SECTION 2: PLANNING AREA PROFILE
Table 3.9 – Percent of Employed Population by Occupation for Wake County
Management, business, science and arts (%)
Natural Resources, Construction, and Maintenance (%)
Production, transportation, and material moving (%)
Service (%)
Sales and Office (%)
Occupation
Wake County
50.1 57.2 61.8 47.3 42.2 54.8 49.6 65.5 46.2 54.0 53.4 39.5 35.0
13.8 11.4 10.4 16.7 15.8
23.4 22.6 19.7 22.4 24.9 24.3 22.4 17.6 24.6 22.8 25.0 35.0 20.9
6.0 4.8 3.9 5.3 8.3 3.7 6.7 3.0 6.0 1.6 4.0 4.6 8.4
6.7 4.0 4.3 8.3 8.8 7.9 5.8 5.8 7.4 5.8
Apex Cary
Fuquay-Varina
Garner
Holly Springs
9.3
Knightdale Morrisville
15.6
8.1
Raleigh
15.7 15.8 13.2 10.7 22.9
Rolesville
Wake Forest
4..4 10.3 12.7
Wendell Zebulon
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2012-2016 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
Across the County as a whole, major industry sectors include educational services, and health care and social assistance (21.0 percent of employment in 2017); professional, scientific, and management, and administrative and waste management services (18.4 percent of employment in 2017); and retail trade (10.1 percent of employment in 2017). Wake County accounts for the majority of its own employment, as approximately 82.3 percent of workers worked in their county of residence as of 2016. Much of the employment outside the County is likely accounted for by the other cities of the Research Triangle, Durham in Durham County and Chapel Hill in Orange County. Table 3.10 summarizes the major employers with 5,000 employees or more in Wake County according to Wake County Economic Development. Table 3.10 – Major Employers in Wake County
Employer
Estimated Employees
Duke University and Health System
38,591 24,083 19,845 16,135 10,000
State of North Carolina
Wake County Public School System
Wal-Mart
IBM Corporation
WakeMed Health & Hospitals North Carolina State University
9,105 9,069 8,000 7,400 5,632 5,000 5,000
Target
UNC Rex Healthcare SAS Institute, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc.
Harris Teeter
Source: Wake County Economic Development
Wake County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan 2019
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