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Employment The largest number of Berwyn residents are employed in educational services, and health care and social assistance (19.4%); followed by arts, entertainment, and recreation, and accommodation and food services. The majority of residents leave the City for their work, with many (35.8%) employed in the City of Chicago.18 Berwyn has an unemployment rate of 9.3%, which is slightly higher than the Cook County unemployment rate
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of 8.8%. Figure 1-5 proportions these sectors on the following page. As illustrated in the Figure 1-6 below, the largest share of Berwyn residents (35.8%) are employed in the City of Chicago. Berwyn has more residents leaving the City for work than residents coming in, which is in line with their status as a bedroom community. 19 These community names below are proportioned according to their share of employment.
Figure 1-6: Berwyn In-Flow, Out-Flow, and Circularity of Jobs
Figure 1-5: Largest Employment Sectors of Berwyn Residents
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