2000 vs. 2017 Industry Earnings Growth and Change

Alabama Real Industry Earnings Growth by County

2000 vs. 2017, Net Percent Change

Shelby County 2000 vs. 2017

Net Percent Change = 134.38%

Rank = #1

Lawrence County 2000 vs. 2017

Net Percent Change = -40.56%

Rank = #67

Crenshaw County 2000 vs. 2017

Net Percent Change = 14.11%

Rank = #26

With a spotlight on Crenshaw County, the chart above displays the distribution of the net percent change of real (inflation adjusted) industry earnings across Alabama's 67 counties over the period 2000-2017.

Those counties whose real industry earnings growth registered above the statewide average over this period realized an increase in their statewide share of real industry earnings. Likewise, those counties whose real industry earnings growth registered below the statewide average experienced a decline in their relative share of real industry earnings statewide.

Statewide Snippets:

Over 2000-2017 real industry earnings grew in forty-three Alabama counties while declining in twenty-four.
Real industry earnings growth in fifteen counties outpaced the statewide average (22.83%), while growth in fifty-two counties trailed.
At the extremes of the distribution, Shelby County posted the highest growth of real industry earnings (134.38%), while Lawrence County placed last by logging a -40.56% decline.
The spread in real industry earnings growth between the highest (Shelby County, 134.38%) and lowest (Lawrence County, -40.56%) over 2000-2017 equated to 174.93% ( = 134.38% − -40.56%).
Real industry earnings growth statewide is but a weighted metric that stems from each county's share of real industry earnings statewide. On this point, as the largest county in Alabama, Jefferson County's net real industry earnings growth over 2000-2017 of $2,224,439K made up 9.23% of the total net growth statewide ($24,110,550K):

Jefferson County: Percent Share of Alabama's
Real Industry Earnings Growth, 2000-2017:

9.23% = ($2,224,439K / $24,110,550K) x 100

Crenshaw County Snippets:

Over 2000-2017, Crenshaw County posted a 14.11% net gain in real industry earnings.
Crenshaw County was joined by fifty-one other counties whose real industry earnings growth over 2000-2017 registered below the statewide average (22.83%).
Ranked #26 among Alabama's 67 counties, Crenshaw County's real industry earnings growth (14.11%) trailed the statewide average of 22.83% by a 8.71% margin.
Crenshaw County's net real industry earnings growth (14.11%, #26) over 2000-2017 registered just above that of Russell County (13.73%, #27) and just below that of Montgomery County (15.18%, #25).
Crenshaw County's share of real industry earnings statewide slipped from 0.20% in 2000 to 0.18% in 2017, resulting in a share-shift of -0.01%.

Real Industry Earnings Growth by County

2000 vs. 2017, Net Percent Change

County Distribution of Real Industry Earnings Growth, 2000 vs. 2017

	More than 40%	40% to 30%	30% to 20%	20% to 10%	10% to 0%	0% to -10%	-10% to -20%	-20% or Below	Total
2000 vs. 2017	9	4	7	9	14	14	6	4	67

Real Industry Earnings by County, 2017

Jefferson County 2017

Real Industry Earnings = $28,757M

Percent of State = 22.16%

Rank = #1

Coosa County 2017

Real Industry Earnings = $83M

Percent of State = 0.06%

Rank = #67

Crenshaw County 2017

Real Industry Earnings = $238M

Percent of State = 0.18%

Rank = #53

Again highlighting Crenshaw County's position, the bar graph above displays the disposition by county of 2017 real industry earnings statewide ($129,741M).

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Statewide Snippets:

Ranked #1, Jefferson County's 2017 industry earnings totaled $28,757M, equating to 22.16% of the statewide total.
Ranked last (#67), Coosa County's real industry earnings of $83M in 2017 comprised just 0.06% of the total statewide. Coosa County's real industry earnings in 2017 equates to less than .01% to that of Jefferson County's.
Jefferson County's 2017 industry earnings ($28,757M) exceeded the combined industry earnings ($28,329M) of Alabama's fifty-two smallest counties.

Crenshaw County Snippets:

Crenshaw County's industry earnings in 2017 ranked #53, amounting to 0.18% of the statewide total.
Crenshaw County's industry earnings of $238M placed below that of Bibb County's ($251M, #52), and just above that of Pickens County's ($236M, #54).
Crenshaw County's industry earnings of $238M exceeds the combined total ($183M) of Alabama's two smallest counties.

Real Industry Earnings by County, 2017

County Distribution of Real Industry Earnings, 2017

	More than $10,000M	$10,000M to $8,000M	$8,000M to $6,000M	$6,000M to $4,000M	$4,000M to $2,000M	$2,000M or Below	Total
2017	3	1	1	2	4	56	67

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Alabama Real* Industry Earnings by County:
2000 vs. 2017

	2000		2017		2000 - 2017
County	Constant Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Constant Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Net Percent Change	Net Change (1000s)	Share (%) of State Change
Autauga	561,982	0.53	670,259	0.52	19.27	108,277	0.45
Baldwin	2,386,990	2.26	4,035,054	3.11	69.04	1,648,064	6.84
Barbour	552,041	0.52	451,888	0.35	-18.14	-100,153	-0.42
Bibb	197,109	0.19	251,314	0.19	27.50	54,205	0.22
Blount	502,707	0.48	557,359	0.43	10.87	54,652	0.23
Bullock	151,204	0.14	146,926	0.11	-2.83	-4,278	-0.02
Butler	296,753	0.28	357,858	0.28	20.59	61,105	0.25
Calhoun	2,322,194	2.20	2,551,005	1.97	9.85	228,811	0.95
Chambers	599,160	0.57	450,003	0.35	-24.89	-149,157	-0.62
Cherokee	227,592	0.22	303,150	0.23	33.20	75,558	0.31
Chilton	396,786	0.38	538,588	0.42	35.74	141,802	0.59
Choctaw	312,280	0.30	258,280	0.20	-17.29	-54,000	-0.22
Clarke	478,290	0.45	463,773	0.36	-3.04	-14,517	-0.06
Clay	218,825	0.21	224,794	0.17	2.73	5,969	0.02
Cleburne	165,233	0.16	182,123	0.14	10.22	16,890	0.07
Coffee	680,653	0.64	887,432	0.68	30.38	206,779	0.86
Colbert	1,249,871	1.18	1,511,933	1.17	20.97	262,062	1.09
Conecuh	221,175	0.21	195,026	0.15	-11.82	-26,149	-0.11
Coosa	97,402	0.09	82,901	0.06	-14.89	-14,501	-0.06
Covington	631,780	0.60	690,354	0.53	9.27	58,574	0.24
Crenshaw	208,911	0.20	238,395	0.18	14.11	29,484	0.12
Cullman	1,437,773	1.36	1,733,449	1.34	20.56	295,676	1.23
Dale	1,345,747	1.27	1,766,001	1.36	31.23	420,254	1.74
Dallas	820,590	0.78	717,418	0.55	-12.57	-103,172	-0.43
DeKalb	1,223,614	1.16	1,227,466	0.95	0.31	3,852	0.02
Elmore	747,627	0.71	1,097,465	0.85	46.79	349,838	1.45
Escambia	735,218	0.70	724,648	0.56	-1.44	-10,570	-0.04
Etowah	1,890,255	1.79	1,985,806	1.53	5.05	95,551	0.40
Fayette	253,655	0.24	204,233	0.16	-19.48	-49,422	-0.20
Franklin	526,957	0.50	571,164	0.44	8.39	44,207	0.18
Geneva	287,128	0.27	301,229	0.23	4.91	14,101	0.06
Greene	107,674	0.10	100,316	0.08	-6.83	-7,358	-0.03
Hale	182,257	0.17	171,276	0.13	-6.03	-10,981	-0.05
Henry	219,699	0.21	259,611	0.20	18.17	39,912	0.17
Houston	2,395,362	2.27	2,860,484	2.20	19.42	465,122	1.93
Jackson	974,604	0.92	891,405	0.69	-8.54	-83,199	-0.35
Jefferson	26,532,393	25.12	28,756,832	22.16	8.38	2,224,439	9.23
Lamar	250,769	0.24	199,305	0.15	-20.52	-51,464	-0.21
Lauderdale	1,456,753	1.38	1,563,247	1.20	7.31	106,494	0.44
Lawrence	463,641	0.44	275,600	0.21	-40.56	-188,041	-0.78
Lee	2,057,534	1.95	3,397,895	2.62	65.14	1,340,361	5.56
Limestone	1,415,968	1.34	1,703,594	1.31	20.31	287,626	1.19
Lowndes	184,117	0.17	181,646	0.14	-1.34	-2,471	-0.01
Macon	283,299	0.27	298,063	0.23	5.21	14,764	0.06
Madison	10,466,681	9.91	15,898,409	12.25	51.90	5,431,728	22.53
Marengo	416,872	0.39	410,723	0.32	-1.47	-6,149	-0.03
Marion	544,091	0.52	521,005	0.40	-4.24	-23,086	-0.10
Marshall	1,614,981	1.53	1,944,187	1.50	20.38	329,206	1.37
Mobile	9,446,869	8.94	11,659,023	8.99	23.42	2,212,154	9.18
Monroe	510,263	0.48	381,659	0.29	-25.20	-128,604	-0.53
Montgomery	7,876,801	7.46	9,072,691	6.99	15.18	1,195,890	4.96
Morgan	2,735,708	2.59	2,980,634	2.30	8.95	244,926	1.02
Perry	127,997	0.12	129,079	0.10	0.85	1,082	0.00
Pickens	224,857	0.21	236,082	0.18	4.99	11,225	0.05
Pike	590,771	0.56	873,906	0.67	47.93	283,135	1.17
Randolph	262,769	0.25	286,527	0.22	9.04	23,758	0.10
Russell	659,719	0.62	750,331	0.58	13.73	90,612	0.38
St. Clair	664,540	0.63	1,136,951	0.88	71.09	472,411	1.96
Shelby	2,870,591	2.72	6,728,002	5.19	134.38	3,857,411	16.00
Sumter	206,082	0.20	195,885	0.15	-4.95	-10,197	-0.04
Talladega	1,294,848	1.23	1,840,999	1.42	42.18	546,151	2.27
Tallapoosa	729,926	0.69	726,496	0.56	-0.47	-3,430	-0.01
Tuscaloosa	4,233,936	4.01	5,934,933	4.57	40.18	1,700,997	7.05
Walker	897,586	0.85	1,037,904	0.80	15.63	140,318	0.58
Washington	346,393	0.33	325,938	0.25	-5.91	-20,455	-0.08
Wilcox	215,880	0.20	197,028	0.15	-8.73	-18,852	-0.08
Winston	440,751	0.42	436,073	0.34	-1.06	-4,678	-0.02

Alabama	105,630,483	100.00	129,741,033	100.00	22.83	24,110,550	100.00
Metropolitan	85,084,142	80.55	107,493,507	82.85	26.34	22,409,365	92.94
Nonmetropolitan	20,546,341	19.45	22,247,526	17.15	8.28	1,701,185	7.06

United States	8,938,721,519		11,848,205,000		32.55	2,909,483,481
Metropolitan U.S.	8,074,031,591		10,812,020,465		33.91	2,737,988,874
Nonmetropolitan U.S.	864,689,928		1,036,184,535		19.83	171,494,607

*Real total industry earnings determined using the Implicit Price Deflator for
Personal Consumption (2017=1.00).

Source: Calculations by the Alabama Regional Economic Analysis Project (AL-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis

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Alabama Industry Earnings by County:
2000 vs. 2017

	2000		2017		2000 - 2017
County	Current Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Current Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Net Percent Change	Net Change (1000s)	Share (%) of State Change
Autauga	414,866	0.53	670,259	0.52	61.56	255,393	0.49
Baldwin	1,762,124	2.26	4,035,054	3.11	128.99	2,272,930	4.39
Barbour	407,528	0.52	451,888	0.35	10.89	44,360	0.09
Bibb	145,510	0.19	251,314	0.19	72.71	105,804	0.20
Blount	371,108	0.48	557,359	0.43	50.19	186,251	0.36
Bullock	111,622	0.14	146,926	0.11	31.63	35,304	0.07
Butler	219,069	0.28	357,858	0.28	63.35	138,789	0.27
Calhoun	1,714,290	2.20	2,551,005	1.97	48.81	836,715	1.62
Chambers	442,312	0.57	450,003	0.35	1.74	7,691	0.01
Cherokee	168,013	0.22	303,150	0.23	80.43	135,137	0.26
Chilton	292,915	0.38	538,588	0.42	83.87	245,673	0.47
Choctaw	230,531	0.30	258,280	0.20	12.04	27,749	0.05
Clarke	353,083	0.45	463,773	0.36	31.35	110,690	0.21
Clay	161,541	0.21	224,794	0.17	39.16	63,253	0.12
Cleburne	121,978	0.16	182,123	0.14	49.31	60,145	0.12
Coffee	502,472	0.64	887,432	0.68	76.61	384,960	0.74
Colbert	922,680	1.18	1,511,933	1.17	63.86	589,253	1.14
Conecuh	163,276	0.21	195,026	0.15	19.45	31,750	0.06
Coosa	71,904	0.09	82,901	0.06	15.29	10,997	0.02
Covington	466,393	0.60	690,354	0.53	48.02	223,961	0.43
Crenshaw	154,222	0.20	238,395	0.18	54.58	84,173	0.16
Cullman	1,061,393	1.36	1,733,449	1.34	63.32	672,056	1.30
Dale	993,457	1.27	1,766,001	1.36	77.76	772,544	1.49
Dallas	605,776	0.78	717,418	0.55	18.43	111,642	0.22
DeKalb	903,296	1.16	1,227,466	0.95	35.89	324,170	0.63
Elmore	551,913	0.71	1,097,465	0.85	98.85	545,552	1.05
Escambia	542,753	0.70	724,648	0.56	33.51	181,895	0.35
Etowah	1,395,424	1.79	1,985,806	1.53	42.31	590,382	1.14
Fayette	187,253	0.24	204,233	0.16	9.07	16,980	0.03
Franklin	389,010	0.50	571,164	0.44	46.83	182,154	0.35
Geneva	211,964	0.27	301,229	0.23	42.11	89,265	0.17
Greene	79,487	0.10	100,316	0.08	26.20	20,829	0.04
Hale	134,546	0.17	171,276	0.13	27.30	36,730	0.07
Henry	162,186	0.21	259,611	0.20	60.07	97,425	0.19
Houston	1,768,304	2.27	2,860,484	2.20	61.76	1,092,180	2.11
Jackson	719,472	0.92	891,405	0.69	23.90	171,933	0.33
Jefferson	19,586,743	25.12	28,756,832	22.16	46.82	9,170,089	17.72
Lamar	185,123	0.24	199,305	0.15	7.66	14,182	0.03
Lauderdale	1,075,404	1.38	1,563,247	1.20	45.36	487,843	0.94
Lawrence	342,269	0.44	275,600	0.21	-19.48	-66,669	-0.13
Lee	1,518,913	1.95	3,397,895	2.62	123.71	1,878,982	3.63
Limestone	1,045,296	1.34	1,703,594	1.31	62.98	658,298	1.27
Lowndes	135,919	0.17	181,646	0.14	33.64	45,727	0.09
Macon	209,137	0.27	298,063	0.23	42.52	88,926	0.17
Madison	7,726,713	9.91	15,898,409	12.25	105.76	8,171,696	15.79
Marengo	307,743	0.39	410,723	0.32	33.46	102,980	0.20
Marion	401,659	0.52	521,005	0.40	29.71	119,346	0.23
Marshall	1,192,211	1.53	1,944,187	1.50	63.07	751,976	1.45
Mobile	6,973,868	8.94	11,659,023	8.99	67.18	4,685,155	9.05
Monroe	376,686	0.48	381,659	0.29	1.32	4,973	0.01
Montgomery	5,814,812	7.46	9,072,691	6.99	56.03	3,257,879	6.29
Morgan	2,019,554	2.59	2,980,634	2.30	47.59	961,080	1.86
Perry	94,490	0.12	129,079	0.10	36.61	34,589	0.07
Pickens	165,994	0.21	236,082	0.18	42.22	70,088	0.14
Pike	436,119	0.56	873,906	0.67	100.38	437,787	0.85
Randolph	193,981	0.25	286,527	0.22	47.71	92,546	0.18
Russell	487,018	0.62	750,331	0.58	54.07	263,313	0.51
St. Clair	490,577	0.63	1,136,951	0.88	131.76	646,374	1.25
Shelby	2,119,128	2.72	6,728,002	5.19	217.49	4,608,874	8.90
Sumter	152,134	0.20	195,885	0.15	28.76	43,751	0.08
Talladega	955,883	1.23	1,840,999	1.42	92.60	885,116	1.71
Tallapoosa	538,846	0.69	726,496	0.56	34.82	187,650	0.36
Tuscaloosa	3,125,576	4.01	5,934,933	4.57	89.88	2,809,357	5.43
Walker	662,616	0.85	1,037,904	0.80	56.64	375,288	0.73
Washington	255,714	0.33	325,938	0.25	27.46	70,224	0.14
Wilcox	159,367	0.20	197,028	0.15	23.63	37,661	0.07
Winston	325,371	0.42	436,073	0.34	34.02	110,702	0.21

Alabama	77,978,535	100.00	129,741,033	100.00	66.38	51,762,498	100.00
Metropolitan	62,810,815	80.55	107,493,507	82.85	71.14	44,682,692	86.32
Nonmetropolitan	15,167,720	19.45	22,247,526	17.15	46.68	7,079,806	13.68

United States	6,598,743,000		11,848,205,000		79.55	5,249,462,000
Metropolitan U.S.	5,960,411,601		10,812,020,465		81.40	4,851,608,864
Nonmetropolitan U.S.	638,331,399		1,036,184,535		62.33	397,853,136

Source: Calculations by the Alabama Regional Economic Analysis Project (AL-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis

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