2011 Budget Book - WHOLE - Kitsap County Government

GENERAL, ECONOMIC, & DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Table 2
POPULATION ESTIMATES 1
Year
Kitsap
County
Percent
Change
(%) Washington
Percent
Change
(%)
2006 243,400 1.24 6,375,000 1.90
2007 244,800 0.99 6,488,000 0.99
2008 246,800 0.82 6,587,600 1.54
2009 247,600 0.32 6,668,200 1.20
2010 248,300 0.28 6,733,300 1.0
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Kitsap County population figures may vary yearly by several thousand as a result of the number of ships docked in the Puget
Sound Naval Shipyard.
Source: Washington State Department of Employment Security and Office of Financial Management
EMPLOYMENT
Kitsap County is defined as the Bremerton-Silverdale Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) for employment and
unemployment statistics. The preliminary December 2010 figures estimate the resident civilian labor force in the
County at 127,090. The economic whiplash from the recessionary economy continues and the December 2010
preliminary non-farm numbers remained steady from the November 2010 numbers of 82,700; however, there
was a 700 job loss compared to the December 2009 numbers.
Year
Resident
Civilian Labor
Force
Table 3
LABOR FORCE AND AVERAGE ANNUAL UNEMPLOYMENT 1
Kitsap County
Average
Annual
Unemployment
Total
Employment 2
Unemployment As a Percent of Labor
Force
Kitsap
County
Washington
State
2002 100,100 6,200 93,900 6.2 7.3 5.8
2003 101,596 6,422 95,173 6.3 7.6 6.0
2004 100,055 5,473 105,527 5.2 6.1 5.5
2005 125,800 6,600 119,200 5.3 6.0 5.1
2006 124,300 6,031 116,669 4.9 4.9 4.6
2007 126,990 5,350 121,640 4.2 4.8 5.0
2008 125,770 7,420 118,370 5.9 7.1 7.2
2009 123,133 9,323 113,810 7.6 8.9 10.0
2010 127,090 9,240 117,850 7.3 9.2 9.1
1 Annual average derived from monthly data.
2 Includes nonagricultural wage and salary, self-employed unpaid family workers, domestics, agricultural workers, and labor
disputants.
Source: Washington State Department of Employment Security and Kitsap County Real Estate Trends Report
United
States
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