Where Are US Jobs In This Economy? Healthcare, Construction Booming In These States

President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise to bring manufacturing jobs to the U.S. Prioritizing jobs was a smart move for Trump; the top voting issue for Americans last year was the economy, with 84 percent of U.S. voters citing the economy as "very important," according to the Pew Research Center.

About 4.8 percent of Americans were unemployed and looking for jobs in February, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But it's not all doom and gloom; for one, the unemployment rate has been dropping steadily since the financial crisis ended. Second, there are job openings in our economy; job-seekers just need to know where to look. Here's where you can find jobs, broken down by both industry and state.

Jobs by industry

Last year, the BLS released a report listing the industries that need workers. According to that data, the industries with the job opening rates higher than 3 percent in 2014 were:

• Accommodation and food services: job opening rate of 4.5 percent
• Professional and business services (this includes administrative and management jobs): job opening rate of 4.4 percent
• Healthcare and social assistance: job opening rate of 3.9 percent
• Finance and insurance: job opening rate of 3.7 percent
• Information (this includes publishing, data processing, telecommunications and broadcasting): job opening rate of 3.6 percent
• Arts, entertainment and recreation: job opening rate of 3.2 percent
• Mining and logging: job opening rate of 3.1 percent
• Transportation, warehousing and utilities: job opening rate of 3.1 percent

But the industries that had the greatest projections for job growth from 2012 to 2022 were different. Here are the 10 top industries in that category:

• Healthcare and social assistance: Employment is expected to grow by 2.6 percent annually
• Construction: Employment is expected to grow by 2.6 percent annually
• Educational services: Employment is expected to grow by 1.9 percent annually
• Professional and business services (which includes administrative and management jobs): Employment is expected to grow by 1.8 percent annually
• Mining and logging: Employment is expected to grow by 1.2 percent annually
• Real estate and rental and leasing: Employment is expected to grow by 1.2 percent annually
• Arts, entertainment and recreation: Employment is expected to grow by 1.1 percent annually
• Accommodation and food services: Employment is expected to grow by 0.9 percent annually
• Wholesale trade: Employment is expected to grow by 0.8 percent annually
• Retail trade: Employment is expected to grow by 0.7 percent annually

Jobs by state

If you're more curious about geography, CNBC releases data from its Top States for Businesses survey every year, and part of that survey looks at job growth. Here are the states with the greatest job growth:

• North Dakota: job growth of 24.77 percent over the past 10 years in the key industries of energy (especially shale oil), engineering and life sciences
• Texas: job growth of 19.17 percent in the key industries of energy and healthcare
• Utah: 17.65 percent job growth in the key industries of information technology and mining
• Colorado: 13.67 percent job growth in the key industries of mining and professional and business services
• Washington: 12.04 percent job growth in the key industries of construction and technology
• South Dakota: 8.97 percent job growth in the key industries of healthcare and construction
• Massachusetts: 8.55 percent job growth in the key industries of finance, technology and construction
• New York: 8.5 percent job growth in the key industries of finance, real estate and construction
• Idaho: 8.41 percent job growth in the key industries of transportation, utilities and healthcare
• South Carolina: 8.28 percent job growth in the key industries of healthcare and manufacturing