08-03-2011, 11:54 AM
I know you said non-agricultural, but how about a frozen chicken processing plant - chickens are trucked in from all round the district, and processed, packed and shipped in reefers to the local big City distribution area - the number of people employed would be aboutb right for that sort of area, and any small town will often have only one major employer - an alternative along the same lines would be a potato processor, making frozen and packeted potato products