Industry Makeup — 2022, across MA
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Shading: Industry Makeup
Lower (-5)Lower-middle (-2 to -1)Middle (0)Upper-middle (0 to 1)Higher (1 to 2)No data
Each unit is shaded by its Industry Makeup value and grouped into equal-count bands (quantiles) against the other units shown — lighter = lower, darker = higher. It ranks position among the units in view; it does not grade places, and the ranges shift with which units are shown.
Industry Makeup — 2022 — Barnstable County: 0 (Middle, 6 of 9)
Ranked by Industry Makeup among the 9 units measured here for 2022. Rank groups them into equal-count bands (Lower→Higher). Typical (median) here: 0. 5 shown as no data.
| Unit | Value | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Hampshire County | 2 | Higher |
| Plymouth County | 1 | Higher |
| Franklin County | 1 | Upper-middle |
| Norfolk County | 0 | Upper-middle |
| Berkshire County | 0 | Middle |
| Barnstable County (selected) | 0 | Middle |
| Essex County | -1 | Lower-middle |
| Hampden County | -2 | Lower-middle |
| Middlesex County | -5 | Lower |
| Bristol County | — | No data |
| Dukes County | — | No data |
| Nantucket County | — | No data |
| Suffolk County | — | No data |
| Worcester County | — | No data |
The map is bounded to this parent geography — it shows the selected unit among its own siblings only, the same depth rule the drill-down uses. Shading ranks position on the measure among the units shown; it does not grade places.
Shading by Industry Makeup for 2022; units without a value for this measure/year are shown as “no data.”
Industry Makeup
◆ 2022: Typical diversity for its size map ↗ ▶ on map
| Largest industries by share of earnings (top 5 = 57.0% of the total) | ||
| Health care and social assistance | 14.4% | 1.3× national avg |
| Construction | 11.7% | 2.0× national avg |
| Recreation, lodging and food service | 11.2% | 2.4× national avg |
| Local government | 10.2% | 1.3× national avg |
| Retail | 9.5% | 1.7× national avg |
2 industries not disclosed here, so not shown (together about $48.3M, 0.5% of county earnings) — a withheld industry is never counted as zero.
| Effective number of industries | ||
| This county | 11.5 | |
| Typical for its size and category | 11.8 | |
| Difference | -0.3 | about what its size predicts |
"Effective number of industries" measures how evenly a county's earnings are spread across 21 industry groups — a higher number means a broader economy. It is compared with a baseline fitted for counties in the same category and of similar total earnings, so the reading is relative to size, not an absolute count.
"× national avg" is how concentrated an industry is here compared with the country as a whole: above 1× means more concentrated here than nationally. It separates an industry that is simply large everywhere (health care sits near 1× in most counties) from a genuine local specialty. Measured against the published U.S. total.
Source: BEA county earnings (CAINC5N), 2022. The size baseline is a regression within that one source, not a second dataset.