City of Peoria Workforce Overview
• The area offers a large, educated labor pool that is younger than the national average, and over half of Peoria’s residents have more than one year of college education.
• A wide range of workers live in and near the community, including traditional blue-collar workers, skilled and unskilled workers and professionals in a wide variety of fields.
• There is a high percentage of technical and professional workers in the general population in the northwest Valley. Many of these individuals commute to other cities, and informal surveys indicate that they would be excellent candidates for positions in the northwest region of the Valley.
• The rapid population growth in Peoria and the surrounding metropolitan area has resulted in an abundant labor force. Over half of this area population resides within a thirty minute commute shed of the Peoria area. The estimated labor force for the population age of 16+ in 2006 was
101,388. The unemployment rate was 2.2%. (Source: Applied Geographic
Solutions 08/06).
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Summary of the City of Peoria
Demographic Profile-Complete
Summary of the City of Peoria
Business Profile
Summary of the City of Peoria
Race and Ethnicity Report
Summary of the City of Peoria
Demographic Profile
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623-773-7642
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