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Employment
Morgan Hill is home to 1,200 businesses,
employing approximately 16,000 workers.
The City’s employment base reflects
Morgan Hill’s importance and relationship
to the rest of the Silicon Valley economy.
The diversity of jobs in the City supports
fiscal and economic resiliency, helping the
local economy endure fluctuations in the
regional and national economies.
Manufacturing accounts for the largest
segment of employment both in the City
and in Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley),
comprising 21 percent of all employment in
Morgan Hill and 20 percent in Santa Clara
County in 2015 (Figure 5). After
manufacturing, the next largest industries
in Morgan Hill are education and healthcare
services (14 percent of employment),
professional and scientific services (12
percent), and retail (12 percent). However,
compared to Santa Clara County overall, the
City’s jobs are more weighted towards
manufacturing, retail trade, arts,
entertainment and recreation, with
relatively fewer jobs in education and
healthcare, and professional and scientific
services.
Figure 6 captures employment by land use
and industry cluster (using industry clusters
defined by the Joint Venture Silicon Valley
Network). Morgan Hill has a particular
specialty in the cluster of high-tech
manufacturing, providing semiconductors,
electronics, and other parts for Silicon
Valley companies. Over the last five years
the City has added 1,400 new jobs (an
increase of 10 percent) in a range of
clusters. Industry clusters such as
biotechnology, building firms,
semiconductor firms and industrial
suppliers have expanded, while logistics and
government services (segments of
Education and Healthcare services) have
contracted.
Figure 5. Employment in Morgan Hill and Silicon Valley, 2015
Source: California EDD, 2015