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Kind of surprises me Greenville-Anderson has a significantly higher number of jobs than Charleston and N Charleston combined. Columbia surpasses Charleston by a good margin as well.
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From an article in The Post and Courier about the state’s rural areas and their difficulty getting jobs:
“… the manufacturing-heavy Charleston region accounted for nearly 40 percent of all new South Carolina jobs — 21,300 — between February 2022 and this past February. The counties in that area have labor force participation rates at least 20 percentage points higher than the lowest-tier counties. When the 10,600 jobs created in the Greenville MSA are factored in, the state’s two industrial powerhouses have accounted for nearly 6 out of every 10 new positions.”
One of the criticisms of Greenville I have seen / heard over the years is the metro's job market is too manufacturing oriented.
These critics generally are big Charleston fans and don't make the same criticisms of Charleston, described above as manufacturing heavy and an industrial powerhouse.
Kind of surprises me Greenville-Anderson has a significantly higher number of jobs than Charleston and N Charleston combined. Columbia surpasses Charleston by a good margin as well.
It’s metro to metro. Charleston-Charleston is a metro. Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin is a metro.
What figures were you viewing? The difference in the number of jobs (employment) reflect the difference in metro sizes.
One of the criticisms of Greenville I have seen / heard over the years is the metro's job market is too manufacturing oriented.
These critics generally are big Charleston fans and don't make the same criticisms of Charleston, described above as manufacturing heavy and an industrial powerhouse.
As “manufacturing-heavy” as Charleston-North Charleston maybe, the metro has been on lists as being among the biggest gainers in tech jobs percentage growth-wise.
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It’s metro to metro. Charleston-Charleston is a metro. Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin is a metro.
What figures were you viewing? The difference in the number of jobs (employment) reflect the difference in metro sizes.
Greenville has more people because it has more jobs.
Consider how big other old cities like Boston and New Orleans are. Why isn't Charleston like them regarding the number of jobs and population? Greenville SC having more people and jobs than Charleston is kind of a Rudy story if you are somebody who is big into population growth and economic development. Few cities get as much hype and national exposure as Charleston has for a long time but a mill town in the western part of the state away from the beaches was able to surpass it.
I'm glad it didn't get as big as Boston given the traffic is already a bear down there due to the geography. I'm a small town kind of guy.
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As “manufacturing-heavy” as Charleston-North Charleston maybe, the metro has been on lists as being among the biggest gainers in tech jobs percentage growth-wise.
I'm not sure I know what people mean when they refer to tech jobs. Some people refer to social media like Facebook as "big tech". Manufacturers have engineers working with robots and automation but those jobs don't appear to be characterized as tech. Jobs in nuclear power don't seem to be tagged as tech but nuclear power is high level technology.
Greenville has more people because it has more jobs.
Consider how big other old cities like Boston and New Orleans are. Why isn't Charleston like them regarding the number of jobs and population? Greenville SC having more people and jobs than Charleston is kind of a Rudy story if you are somebody who is big into population growth and economic development. Few cities get as much hype and national exposure as Charleston has for a long time but a mill town in the western part of the state away from the beaches was able to surpass it.
I'm glad it didn't get as big as Boston given the traffic is already a bear down there due to the geography. I'm a small town kind of guy.
Reading in depth about South Carolina history might help you understand. There was the Great Wagon Trail with later European arrivals to Upstate South Carolina. There was this thing called the Civil War. Then there was reconstruction and the textile industry. And there was a naval base closure.
While metro Charleston has been growing at a faster percentage rate than metro Greenville for the last 25 years, it has a lot of lost ground to make up with plenty of ground to do it on. BTW, since you’re a small-town person, you are probably glad the city of Greenville’s growth seems to have tapered according to the figures released in May reflecting July 2022’s population. The newcomers must all be populating those small towns you love.
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