Economic Transition in the City of Paterson, New Jersey (America’s First Planned Industrial City): Causes, Impacts, and Urban Policy Implications

Table 6

Change in economic base in Paterson, 1970–1997.

	1970	1980	1990	1997
Services	10	28.5	31	35
Retail	n/a	11.5	11	13
Manufacturing	54	43.7	36	31
Wholesale	n/a	3.8	11	10
Construction	4.5	2.8	5	5
FIRE	4.5	3.3	3	2
Comm/trans/utilities	6.0	6.0	4	4

Source: NJ Department of Labor and Demographic Research, various years [20].