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In which major metropolitan areas did unemployment rise and fall between July 2020 and July 2021?
In addition to tracking employment information at the Federal and state level, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is also trackings job gains in major metropolitan areas.
Compared to the data from July 2020, 142 metropolitan areas recorded an increase in nonfarm payroll employment. The largest increases in percent were in “Ocean City, New Jersey (+21.9 percent), Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, Hawaii (+21.1 percent) and Atlantic City-Hammonton, New Jersey (+14.1 percent). “Meanwhile, the biggest losses in payroll were in”Lake Charles, Louisiana (−2.0%), Enid, Oklahoma and Cleveland, Tennessee (−0.8%).
If you consider the increases as the brutal number of newly created jobs, the greatest increases were recorded in the following areas:
1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania (+558.300),
2. Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim, California (+359.300),
3. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+211,100),
Read the full report here.
