The majority of employment in Whitchurch-Stouffville is concentrated in service-producing industries, accounting for 72.7% of employment in the survey area. Within the service-producing category, personal services and retail trade are the primary employment sectors, employing 24.8% and 12.4% of workers in the area. Golf-related employment accounts for the 34.9% of jobs within the personal services sector.
Of the 27.0% of local employment in the goods-producing sector, 17.8% was located in the manufacturing sector in 2003, down from 22.5% in 1998. Within the manufacturing sector, other electrical equipment and component manufacturing, pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing and other wood product manufacturing are the primary subsectors, accounting for 20.2%, 16.4% and 10.1% of manufacturing employment, respectively.
Among all employment sectors, employment growth was highest in the health care and social assistance sector, growing 96.7%. A total of 233 new jobs were added to this sector since 1998. Other large growth employment sectors in 2003 included personal services (72.9%), public administration (56.9%) and business services (52.2%).
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