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Golf anyone? A look at golf courses and country clubs by state
Whether you belong to a country club or go to a public golf course, playing golf can be a year-round hobby or an annual outing with friends. States where golf courses and country clubs are prevalent are ideal homes for avid golfers. Nationwide, in December 2017, the golf courses and country clubs industry employed 307,000 in 11,100 establishments. Florida had the highest location quotient, at 2.7 times the national average. Location quotients are the ratio of an industry’s share of statewide employment to its national share. A location quotient greater than 1 means the industry share of statewide employment is higher than the national share.
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Golf courses and country clubs location quotients by state, December 2017
State
Location quotient
Establishments
Employment
U.S. Total
1.00
11,088
306,782
Florida
2.66
884
48,670
Hawaii
2.50
57
3,491
South Carolina
2.10
256
9,094
Arizona
1.58
168
9,417
Nevada
1.39
83
3,959
North Carolina
1.35
402
12,496
Alabama
1.14
150
4,670
Pennsylvania
1.13
551
13,975
Georgia
1.10
279
10,279
Montana
1.09
77
1,053
Delaware
1.08
28
1,006
New Hampshire
1.07
83
1,490
Connecticut
1.03
137
3,644
Kansas
0.99
121
2,901
Nebraska
0.97
141
1,997
Virginia
0.96
215
7,849
California
0.95
632
34,656
Arkansas
0.94
160
2,404
Massachusetts
0.91
316
6,858
Ohio
0.90
540
10,206
New Jersey
0.90
223
7,796
Texas
0.89
539
22,745
Wisconsin
0.87
382
5,240
South Dakota
0.85
77
754
Oklahoma
0.84
101
2,824
Maryland
0.82
103
4,607
Colorado
0.81
138
4,529
Iowa
0.81
300
2,630
Michigan
0.78
582
7,114
Missouri
0.78
231
4,635
Idaho
0.76
79
1,134
Illinois
0.76
409
9,550
Oregon
0.72
134
2,869
Mississippi
0.72
107
1,719
Wyoming
0.69
33
390
Minnesota
0.67
336
4,021
Tennessee
0.67
170
4,233
Washington
0.66
215
4,611
Indiana
0.65
291
4,155
New Mexico
0.62
37
1,066
Maine
0.61
117
788
Louisiana
0.58
95
2,326
Utah
0.55
48
1,689
Kentucky
0.55
164
2,216
New York
0.53
648
10,560
West Virginia
0.51
68
740
Vermont
0.44
44
290
North Dakota
0.32
66
281
Rhode Island
(2)
51
(1)
Alaska
(2)
16
(1)
District of Columbia
(2)
4
(1)
Hawaii (2.50), South Carolina (2.10), and Arizona (1.58), also had higher concentrations of employment in golf courses and country clubs in December 2017. North Dakota (0.32), Vermont (0.44), and West Virginia (0.51), had the lowest concentration of employees in golf courses and country clubs among states. The industry employed less than 300 in both Vermont and North Dakota.
These data are from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program. You can get more industry employment data for the nation, states, counties, and metropolitan areas through the QCEW data viewer tool.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Golf anyone? A look at golf courses and country clubs by state at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/golf-anyone-a-look-at-golf-courses-and-country-clubs-by-state.htm (visited August 18, 2022).