Geography of Manufacturing Jobs: Portland Metro #17 in Number of Manufacturing Jobs in US Metro Areas.

Brooking web page for this analysis is HERE.

The Portland Metro profile in one page PDF file is HERE. It indicates that:

1. Portland metro manufacturing job loss was nearly 26% from 2000-2010 and manufacturing jobs were 10.6% of all jobs in 2010.
2. Yet the ratio of manufacturing employment/jobs to all employment/jobs was 25% higher in 2010 than the national average; In 1980, the Portland ratio was only 6% higher than the national average. 
3. The average Portland Metro manufacturing wage of $48,810 in 2010 was higher than the national average.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Portland Metro Economic Profile and World Ranking from Brookings.

Search by 200 world wide metro areas is HERE; Portland metro PDF is HERE.  

Portland has middle of pack rating for 2010-2011, near bottom from 2007-2010, and in top 20% from 1993-2007.

All North American profiles are HERE; main page is HERE.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Report: Portland Metro Has 47% of State Population, 59% of State Economic Output.

Brookings has published a summary of Metro area economic and population data for 2009 in a series of state summaries that can be found HERE.

Oregon's summary for Metro areas can be found HERE.   It says that the Portland metro area: 

accounts for 47 percent of the state's population, 51 percent of its jobs, and 59 percent of its economic output.

For ALL Oregon Metro areas report says that: 

Oregon's six metro areas constitute 78 percent of the state's population, 80 percent of its jobs, and 83 percent of its economic output.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Brookings Video: Coming Racial Shift in US.

Reinforces point I have made about growing child minority population in Census 2010 for Oregon; Frey says that 40 states had absolute declines in White child population from 2000-2010:



Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog. 

Brookings State of Metro America Report Published TODAY; Portland Indicators Included.

Although event is tomorrow, thanks to BeSpacfic I have located the new Brookings State of Metro America report HERE.

The web page for the Portland Metro can be found HERE. A PDF of that Portland Metro profile is HERE. I extracted and combined tables for Portland Metro and pasted below:

PORTLAND METRO PROFILE

Indicator Group	Indicator	Metro	Metro Rank	Primary Cities	Suburbs	New Heartland Metros	United States
Population and Migration	% change in population, 2000-2008	14	31	6.6	18	16.3	7.8
Population and Migration	Domestic migration rate, 2000-20081	5.3	31	5.7	0
Population and Migration	% of population moving in previous year	16.9	41	19	15.8	17.1	15.6
Race and Ethnicity	% of population that is nonwhite2	22.2	70	24.9	20.8	28.8	34.6
Race and Ethnicity	% change in nonwhite population, 2000-2008	38	27	15.8	55.4	38.2	21
Race and Ethnicity	Change in nonwhite share of population, 2000-2008	3.8	40	1.6	5	4.5	3.7
Immigration	% of population that is foreign-born	12.7	31	12.8	12.6	8.8	12.5
Immigration	% change in foreign-born population, 2000-2008	34.6	55	7.8	53.5	53.2	22
Immigration	% of children with at least one foreign-born parent	24.8	31	25.2	24.6	16.4	22
Age	% of population age 45 and over	38	51	37.6	38.2	35.6	38.5
Age	% change in under-18 population, 2000-2008	8.7	34	4.8	10.4	14.8	2.5
Age	Dependency ratio3	53.2	94	48.4	55.7	55.8	58.9
Households and Families	% of households that are married couples with children	22.3	32	16.6	25.5	22.8	21.1
Households and Families	% change in married-with-children households, 2000-2008	4.7	24	2.9	5.4	6.2	-4
Households and Families	Average household size	2.61	43	2.34	2.76	2.61	2.62
Educational Attainment	% of population age 25 and over with bachelor's degree	33.3	19	37.8	30.9	33.4	27.7
Educational Attainment	Change in % of population with bachelor's degree, 2000-2008	4.5	18	7.4	3.1	3.9	3.3
Educational Attainment	% 18-to-24 year-olds enrolled in higher education	34.4	81	38.8	32.2	39.5	40.9
Work	Wage for middle-wage workers ($/hour)4	19.58	20				17.8
Work	% change in wage for middle-wage workers, 2000-2008	-1.5	45				-4.5
Work	High/low wage ratio5	4.58	52				5.03
Income and Poverty	Median household income ($)	59,044	29	51,356	63,782	58,112	52,029
Income and Poverty	% change in median household income, 2000-2008	-3.1	45	-2	-4	-5.7	-4.1
Income and Poverty	% of children in poverty	15	71	18.2	13.6	14.6	18.2
Commuting	% of commuters who drive alone	70.6	94	63.4	74.3	78.6	75.5
Commuting	% of commuters who use public transit	6.4	11	10.5	4.2	2.8	5
Commuting	% change in commuters who use public transit, 2000-2008	16.7	60	10.1	26.3	25.2	22.9

Chapter contents and links can be found HERE.

An interactive indicator map is HERE.

Finally, at bottom of this page HERE when you select different indicator groups you have the option of downloading CSV or zip files with ALL of the data relevant to that indicator grouping.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Brookings State of Metro America Report Coming Tuesday.

NYT tease news story is HERE.

Brooking website for Tuesday event is HERE.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.