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State of the Lansing Region, 2020
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Employment by Industry

Educational services, along with health care and social assistance, are the area’s top industries. Each accounted for about
13% of the region’s employment in 2018. Similarly, for Lansing and most peer regions, the heath care and education
industries had the largest share of employment in 2018. Manufacturing, retail trade, and accommodations and food ser-
vices are other large industries in the Lansing region. Among peer regions, Lansing’s share of educational employment is
3rd largest; for manufacturing employment it is 6th largest. Further, the region boasts the largest share of public admin-
istration employment, but has the second smallest share of professional services employment and the smallest share of
information industry employment.

High-Tech and Knowledge Sector Employment
Knowledge Workers
In 2017, almost 9% of Lansing area employment was in high-
tech industries, which include information technology, advanced
manufacturing, and research and development. This share has
declined a little from 10.3% in 2013. 3

Nearly 9% of the region’s employment was in the knowledge 8.8%
sector, which includes education and scientific research. The È
Lansing region ranks 3rd among peer regions for knowledge
sector employment share, marking a slight decline from 9.4% Measures the 2018 share
in 2013. of the region’s working 3.8%
population employed in the
knowledge sector.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns; IPEDS