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Counties most dependent on oil and gas jobs

Counties most dependent on oil and gas jobs

Oil and Gas Share of Private Jobs is shown for the 557 counties that report it. The national median county sits at 1.26806; the range runs from 7.18535e-05 to 64.7887. Highest: Slope County, ND (64.7887); Shackelford County, TX (42.1201); Reagan County, TX (40.6402); Dunn County, ND (39.1121). Lowest: San Diego County, CA (7.18535e-05); King County, WA (0.000382864); Cook County, IL (0.000441354); Miami-Dade County, FL (0.000473736). Among counties over half a million people, the highest are Montgomery County, TX (3.92223); Kern County, CA (2.50712); Oklahoma County, OK (2.22233). Sources: Census CBP 2023; NAICS 211 + 213111 + 213112 / all private employer jobs. Values are noise-infused by design; a component with fewer than 3 establishments is unpublished, so the share is a floor there.

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A county is drawn solid navy when it falls inside every range the map sets, dotted when it misses one, and hatched when it reports no figure for one of the measures, so a hatched county is neither a match nor a miss. On a heatmap, darker means a higher value and a faded county sits outside the range. The count in the title is the count on the day the map ran.

The figures are the same ones behind every county page on this site: Census population and household income, Zillow home values, HUD fair market rents, County Health Rankings measures of crime and health, NOAA temperatures and USDA amenity scores, each stored with its publication year and listed below for this map. "Play with this map" opens the live county map with these ranges already set, so you can move a handle and watch the count change; "Make your own" starts from a blank map.

Sources

  • Census CBP 2023; NAICS 211 + 213111 + 213112 / all private employer jobs. Values are noise-infused by design; a component with fewer than 3 establishments is unpublished, so the share is a floor there

Solid navy marks counties inside every range on this map, dotted counties miss one or all of them, and hatched counties have no figure for that measure. On a heatmap, darker means higher and faded counties fall outside the range.

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