Ample acreage. Built-in opportunity.
Strategic Site Selection
Ample acreage. Built-in opportunity.
Strategic Site Selection
Maps and Demographics
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The map below shows the market area for Americas Gateway Logistics Center, the premier mega-site in Glades County, outlined in red. The beige overlay indicates the labor shed, indicating that there is a workforce population in excess of 105,000 who live within 45 minutes of the site.
| Potential Workforce (2010 Population) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Within 45 minutes: | Within 60 minutes: | ||
| 18 – 21 year-olds 22 – 49 year-olds 50 – 64 year-olds | 4,037 24,435 10,580 | 18 – 21-year-olds 22 – 49-year-olds 50 – 64 year-olds | 6,333 39,611 20,430 |
In the six county inland south Florida region alone, of the 96,255 in the labor force, nearly 23 percent are prime working age.
The majority of the population has a high school degree. While 62 percent of the labor force is employed in white collar jobs (versus 37 percent blue collar) of those, more than 10,000 are employed or under-employed in retail. Career Source Heartland, for example, reports that the top growing positions in their service area are Food Prep/Servers, Retail Sales, Farmworkers, Cashiers and Customer Service Representatives and yet reports interviewing 21.1 candidates per one available job opening.
In Glades County, we can provide grant-funded training and assistance in identifying prospective employees, allowing you to tap into that underutilized talent pipeline.
