NPPD study tracks area’s economic trends

Data offered as useful tool for many different entities

NPPD’s Rich Nelson explains some of the data involving nonfarm wage and salary employment for Hamilton County during a presentation last week in Aurora. News-Register/ Kurt Johnson
NPPD’s Rich Nelson explains some of the data involving nonfarm wage and salary employment for Hamilton County during a presentation last week in Aurora. News-Register/ Kurt Johnson

Hamilton County added 420 nonfarm jobs to the local payroll between 2009-19 with a majority of those coming in the private sector, though the manufacturing sector lost 59 total jobs over that same period.

Those statistics are among many listed in a 28-page economic and demographic trends report compiled by the Nebraska Public Power District, which was reviewed page by page last week in a meeting ho…