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In terms of fastest growing sectors, the picture differs markedly from Orange County as a <br />whole. Here are the leading growth areas by size of employment for Santa Ana from 2010 to <br />2020, according to the BLS. The Orange County ranking is in parentheses next to each business <br />category. The Santa Ana list almost flips the Orange County one on its head. Missing in Santa <br />Ana are high level technical occupations. Manufacturing is projected by the BLS to lose 73 jobs <br />over the ten year span, which as a percentage amounts to no growth. <br />1. Health care /social assistance (7) <br />2. Professional and business services (5) <br />3. Construction (3) <br />4. Wholesale and retail <br />5. Leisure /hospitality (2) <br />6. Government <br />7. Education (2) <br />8. Transportation /utilities <br />9. Financial services <br />It is clear from these rankings that Santa Ana participates in the general economic and job <br />development of the region, and is sensitive to emerging clusters within it. However, its <br />workforce population, which numbered 233,823 in 2013, is more workaday than the norm for <br />the region. This confirms the proposition that a number of the most critical job opportunities <br />for the Santa Ana laboring population over the next five years will lie outside of its city <br />boundaries. <br />As indicated in the strategic analysis, this is a double edged sword. It suggests that Santa Ana <br />can benefit from the growth of Orange County industries and clusters of industries. But it also <br />suggests a need to invite, encourage, and support small business in order to develop industry <br />and labor demand, and taxes within Santa Ana's city boundaries. <br />Translating Cluster and Industry Data into Strategies For Success <br />The emerging clusters and industries that cut across Orange County in general and Santa Ana in <br />specific include: health care and social assistance, bio- technology and nanotechnology, leisure <br />and hospitality, logistics, green and environmental technologies, and traditional and advanced <br />manufacturing. <br />While it is important to service all of them over the next five years, limited resources require <br />that we select a limited number for special emphasis, that the focus be responsive to current <br />and potential skills and aspirations of Santa Ana's workforce, that Santa Ana develop the <br />training and career pathways to support the priority industries, and that Santa Ana work to <br />enhance its local job development and business attraction activities. To an extent not <br />characteristic of Orange County as a whole, Santa Ana must link economic development and <br />workforce strategies. <br />20 <br />19F -25 <br />