Workforce

Lancaster Workforce


Lancaster has an excellent pool of workers that fill an array of occupational careers - from professional, highly skilled trades to semiskilled, assembly-type workers. In addition, Lancaster's location within the Dallas Metroplex provides ready access to a multi-county labor pool numbering in excess of 2 million.
 


Labor Force 


Category
 Lancaster
 Dallas Metropolitan Statistical Area
 Texas
Labor Force
 17,943
 1,288 million
 13,081 million
Employment
 17,481
 1,208 million
 12,484 million
Unemployment
 1,462
 0.065 million
 0.597 million
Unemployment Percentage
 8.9%
 5.3%
 4.7%