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0.J1128 Table 4 - NUMBER OF INCORPORATED URBAN PLACES OVER 2500 POPULATION - 1960, MISSOURI REGION - 25,000 10,000 5,000 2,500 Total Over to to to to Over State 50,000 50,000 25,000 10,000 5.000 2,500 Minnesota 0 0 0 2 I 3 North Dakota 0 I 3 I 0 5 WYDming 0 2 2 3 9 16 Montana 2 0 3 5 9 19 Iowa 2 0 0 9 12 23 South Dakota I I 6 4 13 25 Kansas 2 3 8 9 20 42 Colorado I 4 7 5 4 21 Nebraska 2 I 8 13 19 43 Missouri 4 2 6 15 26 53 Missouri Region 14 14 43 66 113 250 wealth within the region. Few other major regions in the United Stales equal its production of small grains and me3t. It is extremely dirricult to estimate how much of the total economy, either directly or indirectly, is dependent upon agriculture. Much of the nOI1- commodity segment is '!13de up of such operations as machinery maintenance, feed grinding, fuel delivery, electric power supply, and similar services dependent upon farm income. III addition, the processing of food is by far the largest manufacturing segment. Large live. stock markets and numerous meat packing plants of Sioux Falls, Sioux Cily. Omaha, SI. Joseph. and Kansas City are bask to their economies. In fad, meat packing is the largest single food processmg industry. EMPLOYMENT Total employment in the region increased from 2,236,199 in 1940 to ~.984,633 in 1960, or about 33 PERCENT OF TOTAL 75 LEGEND I AGRICULTURE 2 MANUFACTURING 3 OTHER COMMODITY 4 NONCOMMOOITY percent for this 20-year period. During t!\e same period. national employment increased about 45 percent. Con- sequently, the region's share of national employment declined frorn 4.9 to 4.5 percent. The employment- participation rate, which is tolal elllployment divided by total population, was 37.6 percent for both the Missouri Region and the Nation in 1960_ Agricuhural employment in the region is a larger proportion of total employment than in the Nation. as shown in figure 13. Nationally. agricultural employment decreased from 19_1 percent of all employment in 1940 to 6.8 percent in 1960, as compared to region values of 3S A and 17 _2 percent, respectively. During the same period, the proportion of total employment accounted for by manufacturing changed from 23.7 percent to 27.5 percent nationally while increasing in the region from 8.5 percent to 13_7 percent. While it may be concluded that manufacturing during the period absorbed workers displaced frum the agricultural sector, the rate of FIGURE 13 MAJOR EMPLOYMENT DISTRIBUTION, NATION AND MISSOURI RIVER REGION HIS TORICAL 50 25 o 1940 1'1&0 l'ieo 1140 \HO !'iSO 2 YEARS ll.O "ac 'Ieo :5 :..-, ~ ~. t. t. t. t. ~. t. ~: ~. ~. t. J" ,.. ~. {t, ,', J.' .~4 :.. ...... ~ .... ~. '. ,. t~ ~. I~ ~. ~. ~ ~. ~'4 .... .... ..... ..... .... ...' ~: .... ,.. ~. .. ..~ .~ . .... ~.': ~. ~ ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ~. ,. ~. t. ~. .... ~. "'." ~. <t ....: ~ 1140 '1'0 tHO 4 33