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The Hoosier Side of Louisville Little York 135 256 39 The Hoosier Side of Louisville Little York Saltillo Washington Campbellsburg 52 203 The Area growth from 1990 and 52 Salem he Louisville Metropolitan the growth from 2000, 56 65 Clark 60 New Washington Livonia Statistical Area (metro) includes the Indiana counties 160 New Pekin Memphis nine Kentucky counties and have grown slower than Charlestown T Hardinsburg extends north of the Ohio River to many of their Kentucky Borden Fredericksburg 335 403 encompass Clark, Floyd, Harrison and counterparts (see Figure Sellersburg 66 Palmyra 31 150 Washington counties in Indiana. These 1). The relatively low Greenville Floyd 111 42 311 lle 265 Galena Utica 62 four Indiana counties contribute over growth rates in the metro’s larksvi Milltown 131 C 64 Georgetown 131 236,500 people (roughly 20 percent) three largest counties Oak Park New Albany 335 Crandall Jeffersonville 337 71 to the metro’s total population, which (Jefferson, Clark and Floyd) 31 60 86314 Lanesville 62 exceeds 1.2 million. For purposes of are indicative of the strong Corydon this article, analysis will be focused suburbanization trends in 462 Harrison 337 New Middletown 127 on the Hoosier side of the Louisville less populated areas. 211 Elizabeth region. Population projections 135 New Amsterdam 60 Indiana’s Clark County, home to from the Indiana Business Trimble 11 Mauckport Laconia 111 Washington Jeffersonville and Clarksville, is the Research Center indicate 4 Clark second largest of the 13 counties in that, by 2020, the four Indiana 933 Henry 79 Oldham 1634488 Floyd 31 the metro with a 2004 population of counties will grow 5.8 percent Shelby Jefferson 100,706. Floyd County follows with (nearly 13,800 people) from current Harrison Spencer a population of 71,543. Half of that levels. This is slower than the state’s Bullitt Meade county’s population lives in New anticipated growth of 8.1 percent. Nelson Albany, the largest city on the Indiana During this same time period, the side of the metro. number of senior citizens is expected to Combined, the four Indiana counties increase about 55 percent from Census 41 percent. Meanwhile, the region is have added about 7,000 residents 2000 levels; that is significantly faster anticipated to have noteworthy declines since 2000. Looking at the percentage than the state’s overall rate of almost in the number of school-age children and young adults. FIGURE 1: LOUISVILLE’S 2004 TOTAL POPULATION AND GROWTH 800,000 120 Major Industry News Total Population (left axis) Growth (right axis) 117.9 Table 1 shows the region’s largest Kentucky Counties 1990 to 2004 employers. Although the largest single 700,000 Indiana Counties 2000 to 2004 100 employer in the region is Caesar’s 600,000 Indiana, the four-county region mirrors the state’s industrial mix, with 80 Percent Change 500,000 manufacturing (19.7 percent), retail trade (13.3 percent) and health care 400,000 56.6 60 (12.1 percent) being the three biggest 49.9 48.6 Total Population industries. 300,000 40.1 36.0 40 Manufacturing: Major 200,000 26.0 manufacturers include Beach Mold 21.7 23.0 17.1 17.6 and Tool, JeffBoat, Discount Labels, 14.7 20 100,000 11.1 11.8 11.6 11.3 Pillsbury, FKI Security Group, 8.8 7.8 7.4 5.2 6.0 4.7 4.4 2.4 1.0 Gohmann Asphalt and Construction, 0.9 0 0 and Colgate Palmolive. Bullitt Floyd Clark The June closing of the bankrupt Henry Meade Shelby Nelson Trimble Oldham Spencer Harrison Jefferson Tower Automotive plant in Corydon Washington Source: IBRC, using U.S. Census Bureau data and the resulting loss of 600 August 2005 www.incontext.indiana.edu incontext 3 manufacturing jobs has been a TABLE 1: MAJOR SOUTHERN INDIANA EMPLOYERS recent shock to the local economy; Company Name Products or Services Employment Caesars Indiana Resort Hotel and Casino 2,560 it was Harrison County’s second- New Albany/Floyd County School Corp. School System 1,700 largest employer, and over half of its U.S. Census Bureau National Processing Center 1,550 1 Clark Memorial Hospital Hospital 1,500 employees resided in the county. Greater Clark County School System School System 1,250 On the upside, Canadian-based Floyd Memorial Hospital & Health Services Hospital 1,200 Beach Mold and Tool Plastics, Tooling, Moldings and Assembled Parts 986 Martinrea (fluid systems and metal- JeffBoat Barge Construction 886 forming) purchased Corydon’s bankrupt Indiana University Southeast College/University 691 Discount Labels Labels Manufacturing 665 Oxford Automotive plant earlier this Pillsbury Refrigerated Baked Goods 571 year, keeping about 300 jobs in the FKI Security Group Fireproof Files, Safes and Security 550 Gohmann Asphalt and Construction Asphalt Manufacturing 500 county. In Clark County, MedVenture Colgate Palmolive Dental Cream and Other Products 450 Technology Corp., a Louisville firm Hitachi Cable Indiana Brake Hose Assembly Manufacturing 430 Koetter Woodworking Wood Products 400 that designs and manufactures medical The Medical Center of Southern Indiana Hospital 350 devices, announced it is relocating American Commercial Lines Marine Transportation/Communication 284 Green Valley Care Center Nursing/Retirement Home 258 to Jeffersonville in the North Port Kitchen Kompact Kitchen Cabinets 250 Business Center (one of the state’s AirGuard of Indiana Air Filter Manufacturing 235 Adplex Rhodes Promotional Print Services 235 certified technology parks). About Wyandot Snack Foods 230 70 percent of its 156 employees are Silvercrest Children’s Development School/Residential Facility 220 Clarksville Community Schools School System 217 Indiana residents, and MedVenture ESSROC Materials Cement Manufacturing 207 plans to expand to over 500 employees Source: Southern Indiana Chamber of Commerce in the next five years.2 Currently, the average hourly wage at the firm is near a new $30 million Bass Pro store, square-foot mega-store will be the $24. complete with its own restaurant, an second-largest Bass Pro store in the Retail Trade: Set to open just in indoor archery range, an outfitting nation (behind the flagship store in time for the holiday season, the River shop for boats and a 60-foot-tall, Springfield, MO). It is expected to Falls Mall in Clarksville will boast 50,000-gallon aquarium.3 The 280,000 be a boon to the tourism market in the area, as its seasonal seminars at other locations have drawn as many as FIGURE 2: COMMUTERS TO AND FROM CLARK COUNTY, 2000* 30,000 to 40,000 people, and it attracts an average of 2.8 million visitors Jackson Jackson annually. 68 63 Jefferson Jefferson Health Care: As seen from Table 131 305 1, two of the largest employers in the Scott Scott Washington 972 Washington 281 region are the county-owned hospitals 1,781 Orange 147 in Clark and Floyd counties. A growing 143 Clark Henry Clark concern in the health care field is that Oldham 65 Oldham 6,536 326 5,260 158 private medical facilities will siphon Crawford Floyd Floyd 221 Shelby Shelby 1,840 the profitable procedures away from 7,047 104 304 Jefferson 93 Harrison Jefferson Harrison 16,279 county hospitals, along with patients 67 Bullitt Spencer able to pay their bills, leaving the 162 Bullitt 418 119 county hospitals to treat the indigent. Meade Nelson 57 In an effort to prevent this, Clark, Breckinridge 76 Hardin Hardin Floyd and Harrison counties are three 165 51 of four counties in the state to pass moratoriums on new health care facility construction (with Morgan County *Contiguous Counties Source: IBRC, using Census 2000 Commuting Flows being the fourth). Currently, those moratoriums, except for the one in 4 incontext www.incontext.indiana.edu August 2005 Harrison County, are being challenged At the industry level, all were wages, both numerically ($290) and on in federal court.4 below the statewide level, except a percentage basis (37.1 percent). for transportation and warehousing, Commuting where southern Indiana workers had Notes Clark County has the largest a $1 advantage (see Figure 3). Three 1. Charles Ewry, “What the loss of 600 Tower Automotive jobs will mean for Corydon,” The commuting flows on the Hoosier side industries accounting for about 3 Corydon Democrat 10 June 2005. of the border, according to the Census percent of the total workforce had 2. Larry Thomas, “Jeffersonville woos MedVenture with $5.5 million bond issue,” 2000 figures. Eighteen counties had at average weekly wages that were The Evening News 21 June 2005. least 50 people commuting into Clark more than $200 below the Indiana 3. John L. Gilkey, “Bass Pro Shops set to open County, drawing almost 8,500 workers average for that industry: information, $30 million store Nov. 14 in Clarksville,” The Evening News 2 June 2005. from Kentucky. Meanwhile, over professional, scientific and technical 4. Tom Murphy, “Debate over health care 16,000 Clark County residents worked services, and mining. Comparing these development takes legal twist” Indianapolis Business Journal 23 June 2005. in Jefferson County, the heart of the numbers to those from three years ago Louisville metro (see Figure 2). (2001:3), shows that all wages have —Rachel Justis, Managing Editor, Indiana increased, except those in professional, Business Research Center, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Wages and Compensation scientific and technical services, which Overall, the average weekly wage for declined by $28 (a 4.3 percent drop). the four-county region was $574 for When looking at the three the third quarter of 2004—about $80 industries employing the most workers This article is part of an ongoing less than the state rate. Compared to (manufacturing, retail trade and series covering Indiana’s metropolitan statistical areas. Gain access to this and Indiana’s other metros, the average health care), each saw significant the 10 previously published metros— wages were higher than those found average wage increases.
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