1992 ECONOMIC CENSUS -- AREA PROFILE Forrest County, MS Number Sales or Output Jobs/1000 Estabs/100K of Receipts Number per population population Sector Estabs ($mil) of Jobs capita # %ofST # %ofST Manufacturing 90 477 4,200 6,833 60 66 129 90 Wholesale 152 849 1,838 12,158 26 172 218 147 Retail 536 635 7,056 9,089 101 175 767 131 Services 517 256 4,735 3,668 68 164 740 152 MISSISSIPPI Number Sales or Output Jobs/1000 Estabs/100K of Receipts Number per population population Sector Estabs ($mil) of Jobs capita # %ofUS # %ofUS Mining 449 800 4,300 306 2 66 17 142 Construction 3,938 3,154 34,553 1,206 13 72 151 67 Manufacturing 3,764 32,846 238,200 12,560 91 137 144 99 Transportation 1,825 1,875 22,707 717 9 70 70 97 Communications 531 1,563 8,629 598 3 65 20 132 Utilities 612 2,921 10,299 1,117 4 110 23 298 Wholesale 3,868 15,815 39,934 6,047 15 65 148 76 Retail 15,285 14,781 151,005 5,652 58 80 584 98 Services 12,767 5,487 108,222 2,098 41 55 488 68 Finance 1,945 2,901 19,592 1,109 7 43 74 89 Insurance 1,466 3,406 11,511 1,302 4 52 56 89 Real Estate 1,591 388 4,980 148 2 39 61 68 United States Number Sales or Output Jobs/1000 Estabs/100K of Receipts Number per population population Sector Estabs ($mil) of Jobs capita # # Mining 30,787 162,095 638,200 635 3 12 Construction 572,851 528,106 4,668,280 2,070 18 225 Manufacturing 370,934 3,004,862 16,967,400 11,780 67 145 Transportation 184,297 299,274 3,159,451 1,173 12 72 Communications 39,244 230,667 1,294,236 904 5 15 Utilities 20,049 310,961 915,012 1,219 4 8 Wholesale 495,457 3,249,874 5,971,401 12,741 23 194 Retail 1,526,215 1,894,880 18,407,453 7,429 72 598 Services 1,825,435 1,202,613 19,290,352 4,715 76 716 Finance 214,098 1,572,331 4,468,766 6,164 18 84 Insurance 160,639 847,730 2,152,179 3,323 8 63 Real Estate 229,493 141,673 1,231,471 555 5 90 Mining not reported for metros, construction not reported for counties. Trans: State & metro excludes large passenger airlines; metro excl pipelines. Utilities: metro excludes electic, gas utilities. Source: 1992 Economic Census. Find it at: http://www.census.gov/econ97 1992 Economic Census Profile: Retail, Wholesale, Service Forrest County, MS Top Places in Forrest County, MS in terms of 1992 population --- Retail --- -- Wholesale -- --- Services--- Popu- Number Number Number lation of Sales of Sales of Rcpts Geo Area Name (1992) Estabs ($mil) Estabs ($mil) Estabs ($mil) Hattiesburg (part) 40,591 430* (D) 125 (D) 436* (D) Petal 8,163 50 48 12 73 45 8 Balance of county 21,109 56 (D) 15 (D) 36 (D) * The reports and databases include more Kind-of-Business detail for this area 1992 Economic Census: Minority-Owned, Women-Owned Firms Forrest County, MS Firms and Receipts by Group (Groups with 100 or more firms) ----- All Firms ---- ---- Firms with Employees ----- Number Receipts Receipts of Group Number ($mil.) Number ($mil.) Employees All firms 4,578 689.0 935 589.0 6,436 Minority-Owned Firms 284 52.7 46 49.1 358 Black-Owned firms 239 48.6 36 (D) (D) Women-Owned firms 1,451 126.9 207 (D) (D) This table includes sole proprietorships, partnerships, and subchapter S corporations, and excludes "C" corporations. Detail may not add to total due to rounding. Data may have high variance; see documentation for details.