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Okaloosa

Overview

  • The coastal communities in Okaloosa County are known for being family friendly, vacation destinations with white sand beaches, world-class golf courses, and oustanding shopping and restaurants. Away from the coast, Okaloosa County has a significant concentration of high-tech employment, particularly in aviation, aerospace, and defense businesses. The workforce in Okaloosa County is highly skilled, dedicated, and includes thousands of separating or retired military men and women.
  • Northwest Florida Regional Airport, Interstate 10, and the Bob Sikes Industrial Airpark are part of a unique transportation infrastructure that is ideally suited for business and industry, including particularly companies in the aerospace, aviation, and defense sectors.
  • Okaloosa County is home to several Air Force and Army facilities, including Eglin Air Force Base, Hurlburt Field, and Duke Field. Eglin is the largest Air Force base by size, and Eglin’s Air Armament Center is responsible for the development, acquisition, testing, and deployment of all air-delivered weapons. Eglin is also home of the training wing for the F35 Joint Strike Fighter. Hurlburt Field is the headquarters of the Air Force Special Operations Command and several other units supporting the special operations mission. Duke Field is the new home of the Army’s 7th Special Forces Unit.

Major Employers

Contact Information

Kay Rassmussen
EDC of Okaloosa County, Inc
P O Box 4097
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32549
850.362.6467
E-mail
Okaloosa Website

Data

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2011-2012 Industry Size and Growth

Description 2011 Jobs 2012 Jobs Growth % Growth 2011 EPW
Agriculture, natural resources, and mining 1,034 1,044 10 1% $18,529
Construction 6,013 6,059 46 1% $39,541
Education and health services 11,048 11,385 337 3% $40,461
Financial activities 12,949 13,506 557 4% $27,299
Government 29,604 29,743 139 0% $88,169
Information 1,452 1,470 18 1% $66,302
Leisure and hospitality 14,212 14,578 366 3% $20,939
Manufacturing 3,969 4,134 165 4% $66,280
Other services 7,837 8,113 276 4% $23,489
Professional and business services 17,036 17,577 541 3% $50,554
Trade, transportation, and utilities 16,982 17,104 122 1% $34,898
Total 122,138 124,712 2,574 2% $48,818

Source: EMSI Complete Employment - 2011.4

2011 Industrial Makeup

Description 2011 Regional Jobs % Regional Jobs 2011 State Jobs % State Jobs
Agriculture, natural resources, and mining 1,034 0.8% 165,769 1.7%
Construction 6,013 4.9% 488,804 5.0%
Education and health services 11,048 9.0% 1,314,618 13.4%
Financial activities 12,949 10.6% 1,122,936 11.5%
Government 29,604 24.2% 1,156,064 11.8%
Information 1,452 1.2% 161,352 1.7%
Leisure and hospitality 14,212 11.6% 1,093,927 11.2%
Manufacturing 3,969 3.2% 339,135 3.5%
Other services 7,837 6.4% 591,579 6.1%
Professional and business services 17,036 13.9% 1,554,206 15.9%
Trade, transportation, and utilities 16,982 13.9% 1,786,125 18.3%

Source: EMSI Complete Employment - 2011.4

Data Sources and Calculations

Industry Data
In order to capture a complete picture of industry employment, EMSI basically combines covered employment data from Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) produced by the Department of Labor with total employment data in Regional Economic Information System (REIS) published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), augmented with County Business Patterns (CBP) and Nonemployer Statistics (NES) published by the U.S. Census Bureau. Projections are based on the latest available EMSI industry data, 15-year past local trends in each industry, growth rates in statewide and (where available) sub-state area industry projections published by individual state agencies, and (in part) growth rates in national projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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