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Baldwin County Economy In Top 5% In 2007 POLICOM Rankings |
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July 17, 2007 Contact: Robert Ingram, President/CEO Baldwin County Economy In Top 5% In 2007 POLICOM Rankings Each year, POLICOM Corporation of Palm City, Florida, analyzes the economic strength of 363 Metropolitan Statistical Areas containing 1092 counties, and 576 Micropolitan Statistical Areas containing 693 counties. According to the company’s ECONOMIC STRENGTH RANKINGS–2007, and accompanying information presented by William H. Fruth of POLICOM, Baldwin County, Alabama (designated as the Daphne-Fairhope Micropolitan Area) ranked 34th out of the 576 Micros—putting it in the top 5% of the 693 counties. After analyzing said reports, Robert Ingram, President of the Baldwin County Economic Development Alliance, relates that this is the fourth consecutive year that Baldwin County has ranked in the Top 40 Micro Areas. “POLICOM uses dozens of factors to analyze the quality of the economy, the behavior of the economy, and negative aspects of the economy. Growth rates, including some ‘moving averages’ in certain categories are combined with pure numbers and numerical growth in other categories to rank the Micro counties in over 80 categories. Baldwin County placed in the Top 10 in eleven of the categories, was the #1 ranked Micro in Alabama and was the highest ranked Micro in a 6 state region, which includes Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas and Alabama. Much of the data used is from the 2001-2005 period so it will be interesting to see how we rank when post Ivan and Katrina data is factored into future equations. The Baldwin County EDA’s Board and Staff are grateful to Baldwin County’s great public and private leadership, and to our investors who play such a vital role in creating a strong, viable economy which continues to rank among the best in the US.” |
