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Ashe County

QT-P27. Occupation by Sex: 2000

Occupation Both sexes Male Female
       
     Employed civilian population 16 years and over 11,390 6,288 5,102
Management, professional, and related occupations 2,549 1,222 1,327
    Management, business, and financial operations occupations 1,097 693 404
        Management occupations, except farmers and farm managers 610 353 257
        Farmers and farm managers 259 233 26
        Business and financial operations occupations 228 107 121
            Business operations specialists 143 87 56
            Financial specialists 85 20 65
    Professional and related occupations 1,452 529 923
        Computer and mathematical occupations 106 70 36
        Architecture and engineering occupations 187 155 32
            Architects, surveyors, cartographers, and engineers 60 59 1
            Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians 127 96 31
        Life, physical, and social science occupations 32 14 18
        Community and social services occupations 164 68 96
        Legal occupations 24 3 21
        Educations, training, and library occupations 490 99 391
        Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations 109 51 58
        Healthcare practioners and technical occupations 340 69 271
            Health diagnosing and treating practioners and technical occupations 222 43 179
            Health technologists and technicians 118 26 92
       
Service occupations 1,598 500 1,098
    Healthcare support occupations 418 12 406
    Protective service occupations 122 99 23
        Fire Fighting, prevention, and law enforcement workers, including supervisors 83 73 10
        Other protective service occupations, including supervisors 39 26 13
    Food prepartion and serving related occupations 459 81 378
    Building and grounds cleaning and maintenace occupations 435 292 143
    Personal care and service occupations 164 16 148
       
Sales and office occupations 2,334 760 1,574
    Sales and related occupations 982 537 445
    Office and administrative support occupations 1,352 223 1,129
       
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations 263 261 2
Construction, extraction, and maintenace occupations 1,747 1,704 43
    Construction and extraction occupations 1,094 1,059 35
        Supervisors, construction and extraction workers 144 133 11
        Construction trades workers 942 918 24
        Extraction workers 8 8 0
    Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations 653 645 8
       
Production, transportaion, and material moving occupations 2,899 1,841 1,058
    Production occupations 2,031 1,125 906
    Transportation and material moving occupations 868 716 152
        Supervisors, transportation and material moving workers 12 5 7
        Aircraft and traffic control occupations 11 11 0
        Motor vehicle operators 517 453 64
        Rail, water and other transportaion occupations 14 12 2
        Material moving workers 314 235 79

 

Date: October 2, 2002

[Data based on a sample]
(X) Not applicable.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P50.
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