Economic Clusters for the 21st Century — presents data on industry, skills, and knowledge-based clusters, helping regions assess economic competitiveness and workforce strengths.
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Industry clusters bring together interdependent industry sectors that share supply chains, technologies, labor pools, and specialized infrastructure. These geographically concentrated sets of establishments leverage shared resources and promote innovation across regional economies.
Skills-based occupation clusters group occupations that share similar skill characteristics based on the latest O*NET skills typology. Covering the entire set of 800+ occupations, these 38 mutually exclusive clusters are defined by SOC 6-digit codes — giving you a clear, skills-first lens into the labor market.
Knowledge-based occupation clusters group occupations by shared knowledge and educational preparedness. These 21 clusters focus on occupations requiring medium to extensive preparation — generally associate through doctoral degrees — covering roughly 64% of all occupations available in the labor market.
Exploring the partnership between PCRD and EDA
As an EDA University Partner in Indiana, the Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) strengthens the capacity of regions by providing technical assistance for local leaders and analyzing data from applied research concerning economic clusters and other development indicators. Through this partnership, we support EDA goals to foster accelerated regional development via data driven research, strategic planning, and innovative tools much like this economic cluster data dashboard.