{"id":36804,"date":"2015-08-01T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/?p=36804"},"modified":"2015-08-01T01:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T08:00:43","slug":"most-popular-jobs-by-zip-code-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/most-popular-jobs-by-zip-code-map\/","title":{"rendered":"These Fascinating Maps Show The Most Popular Occupations By Zip Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What Is The Most Common Occupation In My Zip Code?<\/h2>\n

What would you guess is the most common job in the nation. Retail? Agriculture? Factory work? While all of those might seem kind of reasonable, the fact is that every area seems to have it\u2019s own jobs that are the most common, depending on terrain, social climate, and availability.
\nThose differences fascinated us here at the Movoto Real Estate<\/a> Blog, and we decided to find out where each type of job was the most popular. To do this, we made a colored map of the most common occupations, right down to the most common ones in every zip code.
\nHow exactly did we do this? You can find out in the very next section.<\/p>\n

Our Methodology<\/h2>\n

In order to create this map, we turned to the magic of the Internet and the U.S. Census Five Year Community Survey. Using that, we found out the percent of the population that worked in each of 13 categories. Those categories were:<\/p>\n