ABSTRACT
Neighborhood employment in fabricated metal products is related to several factor variables associated with poverty neighborhoods—high-poverty population, female-headed households, percent receiving public assistance, and vacant housing units. Only two industries among the major neighborhood employers are classified as producer-oriented: manufacturing and producer services. Manufacturing firms tend to be located in working-class neighborhoods, although the amount of explained variance is quite small. For most specific producer services industries, neighborhood employment exhibits a strong relationship to neighborhood characteristics. Manufacturing firms tend to be located in working-class neighborhoods, although the amount of explained variance is quite small. The same is true when manufacturing is broken into durable goods and nondurable goods. The neighborhoods where most of producer services employment is located tend to be areas of newer, high-value, owner-occupied housing. The category producer services includes industries that provide services to producers and others.
