City of Morgan Hill Economic Blueprint.docx

Employment

Morgan Hill is home to 1,200 businesses, employing approximately 16,000 workers. The City’s employment base reflects Morgan Hill’s importance and relationship to the rest of the Silicon Valley economy. The diversity of jobs in the City supports fiscal and economic resiliency, helping the local economy endure fluctuations in the regional and national economies. Manufacturing accounts for the largest segment of employment both in the City and in Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley), comprising 21 percent of all employment in Morgan Hill and 20 percent in Santa Clara County in 2015 (Figure 5). After manufacturing, the next largest industries in Morgan Hill are education and healthcare services (14 percent of employment), professional and scientific services (12 percent), and retail (12 percent). However, compared to Santa Clara County overall, the City’s jobs are more weighted towards

manufacturing, retail trade, arts, entertainment and recreation, with relatively fewer jobs in education and healthcare, and professional and scientific services. Figure 6 captures employment by land use and industry cluster (using industry clusters defined by the Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network). Morgan Hill has a particular specialty in the cluster of high-tech manufacturing, providing semiconductors, electronics, and other parts for Silicon Valley companies. Over the last five years the City has added 1,400 new jobs (an increase of 10 percent) in a range of clusters. Industry clusters such as biotechnology, building firms, semiconductor firms and industrial suppliers have expanded, while logistics and government services (segments of Education and Healthcare services) have contracted.

Figure 5. Employment in Morgan Hill and Silicon Valley, 2015

Source: California EDD, 2015

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