The County boasts a high concentration of jobs in the manufacturing cluster, employing over 6000 workers and 97 industries in the food, fabricated metal product, and machinery manufacturing sectors alone.
With this fact in mind, based on employment levels, growth, and income generation potential, the following the sectors are those most equipped for expansion and best suited for future economic development:
- Truck transportation
- Aerospace industry
- Furniture manufacturing
- Fabricated metal product manufacturing
- Machinery manufacturing
- Food manufacturing
- Beverage manufacturing
- Animal production
- Electrical equipment and appliance manufacturing
- Accommodation
- Information services
- Crop Production
- Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing
- Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
- Warehousing and storage