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Table 1: Employment Changes in Cabarrus, 2007 to 2009 Employment, Employment, Employment Percent 2007 2009 Change Growth, 2007-2009 Education and Health Services 14,503 15,032 529 3.6 Trade, Transportation, and 14,990 13,976 -1,014 -6.8 Utilities Leisure and Hospitality 9,407 9,871 464 4.9 Professional and Business 6,956 6,678 -278 -4.0 Services Manufacturing 8,225 6,535 -1,690 -20.5 Construction 5,063 3,459 -1,604 -31.7 Public Administration 2,718 3,084 366 13.5 Other Services 1,729 1,658 -71 -4.1 Financial Activities 1,627 1,624 -3 -0.2 Information 849 607 -242 -28.5 Natural Resources and Mining 213 194 -19 -8.9 66,280 62,718 -3,562 Employment Changes in Cabarrus Table 1 presents the employment changes for 2007 -2009 and Cabarrus, NC. The rows contain the titles and job statistics for all 11 industries that this analysis considers. The industries are ordered according to how many people they employed in 2009. The Education and Health Services sector employed the most workers, so it is first, followed by Trade, Transportation, and Utilities, and the Leisure and Hospitality sector is third. This area had 63,201 employees in 2009, in all industries including some jobs that BLS could not classify into the 11 sectors listed in Table 1. During the period 2007 to 2009, employment in Cabarrus declined by -3562 jobs. In terms of employment growth, the most important industry was Education and Health Services (529 jobs). It is followed by Leisure and Hospitality (464 jobs), and Public Administration (366 jobs). Within a single sector it is possible to observe both of these effects simultaneously. For example, a new large retailer such as Wal -mart can hire 100 workers or more, but these gains may come at the expense of retail jobs at smaller shops. The net gain in employment could be either positive or negative. These effects can be felt more acutely in the rural counties of the country.