1992 ECONOMIC CENSUS -- AREA PROFILE Berks County, PA Number Sales or Output Jobs/1000 Estabs/100K of Receipts Number per population population Sector Estabs ($mil) of Jobs capita # %ofST # %ofST Mining 13 26 200 77 1 28 4 37 Manufacturing 622 6,173 43,900 17,991 128 162 181 120 Wholesale 510 2,841 8,562 8,279 25 118 149 88 Retail 2,118 2,731 25,447 7,959 74 103 617 103 Services 1,975 961 17,388 2,801 51 76 576 89 PENNSYLVANIA Number Sales or Output Jobs/1000 Estabs/100K of Receipts Number per population population Sector Estabs ($mil) of Jobs capita # %ofUS # %ofUS Mining 1,219 3,715 24,900 310 2 83 10 84 Construction 26,222 24,008 213,478 2,001 18 97 219 97 Manufacturing 18,089 139,286 949,800 11,612 79 119 151 104 Transportation 7,888 9,276 125,522 773 10 84 66 91 Communications 1,592 8,540 53,452 712 4 88 13 86 Utilities 888 16,743 52,219 1,396 4 121 7 94 Wholesale 20,230 126,370 254,410 10,535 21 91 169 87 Retail 71,652 87,788 861,565 7,318 72 100 597 100 Services 77,839 49,383 797,051 4,117 66 88 649 91 Finance 8,167 27,362 128,052 2,281 11 61 68 81 Insurance 6,882 40,671 120,951 3,391 10 120 57 91 Real Estate 7,229 4,964 42,664 414 4 74 60 67 United States Number Sales or Output Jobs/1000 Estabs/100K of Receipts Number per population population Sector Estabs ($mil) of Jobs capita # # Mining 30,787 162,095 638,200 635 3 12 Construction 572,851 528,106 4,668,280 2,070 18 225 Manufacturing 370,934 3,004,862 16,967,400 11,780 67 145 Transportation 184,297 299,274 3,159,451 1,173 12 72 Communications 39,244 230,667 1,294,236 904 5 15 Utilities 20,049 310,961 915,012 1,219 4 8 Wholesale 495,457 3,249,874 5,971,401 12,741 23 194 Retail 1,526,215 1,894,880 18,407,453 7,429 72 598 Services 1,825,435 1,202,613 19,290,352 4,715 76 716 Finance 214,098 1,572,331 4,468,766 6,164 18 84 Insurance 160,639 847,730 2,152,179 3,323 8 63 Real Estate 229,493 141,673 1,231,471 555 5 90 Mining not reported for metros, construction not reported for counties. Trans: State & metro excludes large passenger airlines; metro excl pipelines. Utilities: metro excludes electic, gas utilities. Source: 1992 Economic Census. Find it at: http://www.census.gov/econ97 1992 Economic Census Profile: Retail, Wholesale, Service Berks County, PA Top Places in Berks County, PA in terms of 1992 population --- Retail --- -- Wholesale -- --- Services--- Popu- Number Number Number lation of Sales of Sales of Rcpts Geo Area Name (1992) Estabs ($mil) Estabs ($mil) Estabs ($mil) Reading 79,028 533* 449 161 868 509* 271 Spring township 19,694 21 8 7 11 24 12 Exeter township 17,885 64 149 15 33 85 31 Cumru township 13,086 9 13 3 1 16 8 Muhlenberg township 12,912 168 344 30 335 80 55 Wyomissing 7,526 194 420 25 95 199 189 Shillington 5,083 83 174 15 65 107 42 Kutztown 5,056 74 101 6 5 43 17 Birdsboro 4,661 32 25 9 (D) 27 7 Hamburg 4,228 41 67 3 5 41 9 * The reports and databases include more Kind-of-Business detail for this area 1992 Economic Census: Minority-Owned, Women-Owned Firms Berks County, PA 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 20,153 5,157.0 3,829 4,677.0 42,501 Minority-Owned Firms 638 93.0 113 72.2 1,653 Black-Owned firms 206 22.3 40 14.8 336 Hispanic-Owned firms 172 9.9 10 2.9 44 Asians, Am Indians &AK Nat 268 61.0 62 54.5 1,272 Women-Owned firms 6,390 975.7 834 866.9 8,035 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.