Southeast - Labor Force Statistics

 

Civilian labor force in the Southeast,
seasonally adjusted (in thousands)
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United States
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 154,451 155,524 155,028 155,238 787 0.5

South (1)

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 (2) 56,462.4 56,877.0 56,810.8 56,823.5 (2) 361.1 (2) 0.6

South Atlantic
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 (2) 29,958.1 30,217.2 30,147.6 30,111.6 (2) 153.6 (2) 0.5

Delaware
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 (2) 443.1 446.5 445.8 (P) 445.7 (P) (2) 2.5 (P) (2) 0.6

District of Columbia
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 (2) 357.7 373.1 373.1 (P) 372.4 (P) (2) 14.7 (P) (2) 4.1

Florida
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 (2) 9,353.1 9,428.6 9,411.9 (P) 9,410.6 (P) (2) 57.5 (P) (2) 0.6

Georgia
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 (2) 4,797.4 4,839.8 4,821.5 (P) 4,813.4 (P) (2) 16.0 (P) (2) 0.3

Maryland
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 (2) 3,115.3 3,142.4 3,138.9 (P) 3,141.5 (P) (2) 26.1 (P) (2) 0.8

North Carolina
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 (2) 4,709.2 4,764.9 4,741.8 (P) 4,722.4 (P) (2) 13.2 (P) (2) 0.3

South Carolina
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 (2) 2,169.0 2,178.7 2,174.7 (P) 2,169.4 (P) (2) 0.4 (P) (2) 0.0

Virginia
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 (2) 4,208.4 4,228.9 4,223.5 (P) 4,225.4 (P) (2) 17.0 (P) (2) 0.4

West Virginia
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 (2) 803.4 809.1 807.1 (P) 806.3 (P) (2) 2.8 (P) (2) 0.4

East South Central
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 (2) 8,669.9 8,704.4 8,704.1 8,722.5 (2) 52.5 (2) 0.6

Alabama
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 (2) 2,157.9 2,157.6 2,164.5 (P) 2,177.9 (P) (2) 20.0 (P) (2) 0.9

Kentucky
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 (2) 2,068.1 2,084.0 2,086.8 (P) 2,093.0 (P) (2) 25.0 (P) (2) 1.2

Mississippi
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 (2) 1,329.2 1,332.2 1,324.9 (P) 1,320.0 (P) (2) -9.2 (P) (2) -0.7

Tennessee
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 (2) 3,113.1 3,129.6 3,126.3 (P) 3,128.6 (P) (2) 15.4 (P) (2) 0.5

Footnotes
(1) The South includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
(2) Reflects revised population controls, model reestimation, and new seasonal adjustment.
(P) Preliminary

SOURCE: Local Area Unemployment Statistics
The State and regional data above are a product of the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program, a Federal-State cooperative program in which total employment and unemployment are measured for approximately 7,200 areas.
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Unemployed in the Southeast,
seasonally adjusted (in thousands)
Area

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United States
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 12,518 12,032 11,742 11,659 -859 -6.9

South (1)

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 (2) 4,406.9 4,158.3 4,106.9 4,039.9 (2) -367.0 (2) -8.3

South Atlantic
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 (2) 2,491.6 2,345.9 2,283.8 2,215.0 (2) -276.7 (2) -11.1

Delaware
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 (2) 31.1 32.1 32.3 (P) 31.9 (P) (2) 0.8 (P) (2) 2.6

District of Columbia
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 (2) 32.7 32.2 31.9 (P) 31.5 (P) (2) -1.2 (P) (2) -3.6

Florida
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 (2) 828.2 731.4 707.3 (P) 680.4 (P) (2) -147.8 (P) (2) -17.8

Georgia
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 (2) 435.8 416.8 406.5 (P) 395.2 (P) (2) -40.6 (P) (2) -9.3

Maryland
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 (2) 210.8 208.0 206.6 (P) 205.5 (P) (2) -5.3 (P) (2) -2.5

North Carolina
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 (2) 441.1 446.8 434.5 (P) 419.3 (P) (2) -21.8 (P) (2) -5.0

South Carolina
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 (2) 200.9 187.1 182.6 (P) 174.4 (P) (2) -26.5 (P) (2) -13.2

Virginia
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 (2) 247.6 235.2 225.7 (P) 219.7 (P) (2) -27.8 (P) (2) -11.2

West Virginia
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 (2) 57.3 58.7 56.1 (P) 53.5 (P) (2) -3.8 (P) (2) -6.6

East South Central
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 (2) 700.5 691.2 693.9 689.3 (2) -11.2 (2) -1.6

Alabama
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 (2) 158.7 154.8 155.0 (P) 150.5 (P) (2) -8.2 (P) (2) -5.2

Kentucky
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 (2) 169.5 164.2 166.8 (P) 166.3 (P) (2) -3.2 (P) (2) -1.9

Mississippi
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 (2) 120.1 128.0 125.1 (P) 120.6 (P) (2) 0.5 (P) (2) 0.4

Tennessee
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 (2) 250.9 243.4 245.4 (P) 249.9 (P) (2) -1.0 (P) (2) -0.4

Footnotes
(1) The South includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
(2) Reflects revised population controls, model reestimation, and new seasonal adjustment.
(P) Preliminary

SOURCE: Local Area Unemployment Statistics
The State and regional data above are a product of the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program, a Federal-State cooperative program in which total employment and unemployment are measured for approximately 7,200 areas.
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Unemployment rates in the Southeast,
seasonally adjusted (in percent)
Area

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United States
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 8.1 7.7 7.6 7.5 -0.6

South (1)

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 (2) 7.8 7.3 7.2 7.1 (2) -0.7

South Atlantic
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 (2) 8.3 7.8 7.6 7.4 (2) -0.9

Delaware
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 (2) 7.0 7.2 7.2 (P) 7.2 (P) (2) 0.2

District of Columbia
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 (2) 9.1 8.6 8.6 (P) 8.5 (P) (2) -0.6

Florida
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 (2) 8.9 7.8 7.5 (P) 7.2 (P) (2) -1.7

Georgia
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 (2) 9.1 8.6 8.4 (P) 8.2 (P) (2) -0.9

Maryland
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 (2) 6.8 6.6 6.6 (P) 6.5 (P) (2) -0.3

North Carolina
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 (2) 9.4 9.4 9.2 (P) 8.9 (P) (2) -0.5

South Carolina
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 (2) 9.3 8.6 8.4 (P) 8.0 (P) (2) -1.3

Virginia
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 (2) 5.9 5.6 5.3 (P) 5.2 (P) (2) -0.7

West Virginia
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 (2) 7.1 7.3 7.0 (P) 6.6 (P) (2) -0.5

East South Central
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 (2) 8.1 7.9 8.0 7.9 (2) -0.2

Alabama
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 (2) 7.4 7.2 7.2 (P) 6.9 (P) (2) -0.5

Kentucky
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 (2) 8.2 7.9 8.0 (P) 7.9 (P) (2) -0.3

Mississippi
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 (2) 9.0 9.6 9.4 (P) 9.1 (P) (2) 0.1

Tennessee
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 (2) 8.1 7.8 7.8 (P) 8.0 (P) (2) -0.1

Footnotes
(1) The South includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
(2) Reflects revised population controls, model reestimation, and new seasonal adjustment.
(P) Preliminary

SOURCE: Local Area Unemployment Statistics
The State and regional data above are a product of the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program, a Federal-State cooperative program in which total employment and unemployment are measured for approximately 7,200 areas.
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Unemployment rates in the Southeast by Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA),
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Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
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Alabama

  

Anniston-Oxford
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 (2) 6.7 8.2 (P) 7.1    

Auburn-Opelika
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 (2) 5.6 6.4 (P) 5.8    

Birmingham-Hoover
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 (2) 5.7 7.0 (P) 6.0    

Decatur
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 (2) 6.7 7.8 (P) 6.8    

Dothan
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 (2) 6.1 7.7 (P) 6.6    

Florence-Muscle Shoals
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 (2) 6.0 7.7 (P) 6.4    

Gadsden
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 (2) 6.3 7.9 (P) 6.9    

Huntsville
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 (2) 5.6 6.8 (P) 6.0    

Mobile
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 (2) 7.6 8.9 (P) 8.0    

Montgomery
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 (2) 6.7 7.9 (P) 7.0    

Tuscaloosa
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 (2) 6.9 7.2 (P) 6.4    

Florida

  

Cape Coral-Fort Myers
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 (2) 8.5 7.4 (P) 6.8    

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin
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 (2) 5.9 5.5 (P) 4.8    

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach
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 (2) 8.6 7.7 (P) 6.9    

Gainesville
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 (2) 6.3 5.6 (P) 5.2    

Jacksonville
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 (2) 8.0 7.1 (P) 6.5    

Lakeland-Winter Haven
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 (2) 9.3 8.3 (P) 7.6    

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach
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 (2) 8.3 8.0 (P) 7.5    

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach (1)

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 (2) 7.2 6.2 (P) 5.7    

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall (1)

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 (3) 9.2 9.5 9.2 (P) 8.8 (P) (3) -0.4

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach (1)

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 (2) 8.4 7.5 (P) 6.9    

Naples-Marco Island
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 (2) 7.6 6.9 (P) 6.3    

North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota
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 (2) 8.3 7.3 (P) 6.7    

Ocala
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 (2) 9.7 8.4 (P) 7.8    

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford
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 (2) 8.2 7.2 (P) 6.6    

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville
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 (2) 9.1 8.0 (P) 7.4    

Palm Coast
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 (2) 11.2 10.3 (P) 9.5    

Panama City-Lynn Haven-Panama City Beach
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 (2) 7.8 7.9 (P) 6.6    

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent
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 (2) 7.8 7.2 (P) 6.6    

Port St. Lucie
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 (2) 9.8 8.9 (P) 8.2    

Punta Gorda
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 (2) 8.5 7.4 (P) 6.8    

Tallahassee
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 (2) 7.0 6.4 (P) 5.9    

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater
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 (2) 8.6 7.5 (P) 6.9    

Sebastian-Vero Beach
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 (2) 10.0 8.9 (P) 8.1    

Georgia

  

Albany
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 (2) 9.2 9.1 (P) 8.9    

Athens-Clarke County
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 (2) 6.4 6.1 (P) 5.9    

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta
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 (2) 8.5 8.3 (P) 7.9    

Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC
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 (2) 8.2 8.5 (P) 8.0    

Brunswick
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 (2) 9.6 9.6 (P) 9.0    

Columbus, GA-AL
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 (2) 8.4 8.8 (P) 8.4    

Dalton
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 (2) 11.1 11.0 (P) 10.3    

Gainesville
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 (2) 7.2 6.9 (P) 6.8    

Hinesville-Fort Stewart
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 (2) 8.6 8.8 (P) 8.6    

Macon
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 (2) 9.1 9.0 (P) 8.5    

Rome
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 (2) 9.8 9.3 (P) 8.9    

Savannah
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 (2) 8.2 7.7 (P) 7.4    

Valdosta
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 (2) 8.1 8.0 (P) 7.7    

Warner Robins
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 (2) 7.2 7.2 (P) 6.9    

Kentucky

  

Bowling Green
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 (2) 6.5 7.4 (P) 7.8    

Elizabethtown
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 (2) 7.4 7.9 (P) 8.1    

Lexington-Fayette
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 (2) 6.1 6.8 (P) 6.8    

Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN
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 (2) 7.9 8.4 (P) 8.3    

Owensboro
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 (2) 6.1 7.3 (P) 7.0    

Mississippi

  

Gulfport-Biloxi
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 (2) 8.0 9.5 (P) 8.2    

Hattiesburg
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 (2) 7.2 8.6 (P) 7.4    

Jackson
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 (2) 6.7 7.9 (P) 6.9    

Pascagoula
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 (2) 9.2 10.7 (P) 9.5    

North Carolina

  

Asheville
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 (2) 7.4 7.8 (P) 7.2    

Burlington
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 (2) 8.9 9.3 (P) 8.8    

Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC
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 (2) 9.0 9.4 (P) 8.8    

Durham-Chapel Hill
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 (2) 6.9 7.0 (P) 6.7    

Fayetteville
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 (2) 9.4 10.0 (P) 9.6    

Goldsboro
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 (2) 8.4 9.2 (P) 8.8    

Greensboro-High Point
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 (2) 9.3 9.9 (P) 9.4    

Greenville
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 (2) 8.7 9.1 (P) 8.7    

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton
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 (2) 10.4 10.8 (P) 10.1    

Jacksonville
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 (2) 8.2 8.8 (P) 8.5    

Raleigh-Cary
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 (2) 7.4 7.5 (P) 7.1    

Rocky Mount
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 (2) 12.2 13.2 (P) 12.5    

Wilmington
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 (2) 9.1 10.3 (P) 9.2    

Winston-Salem
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 (2) 8.4 8.8 (P) 8.4    

South Carolina

  

Anderson
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 (2) 8.1 7.8 (P) 7.3    

Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville
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 (2) 7.1 6.8 (P) 6.4    

Columbia
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 (2) 7.6 7.4 (P) 6.9    

Florence
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 (2) 9.7 9.7 (P) 8.9    

Greenville-Mauldin-Easley
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 (2) 7.1 6.8 (P) 6.4    

Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach-Conway
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 (2) 9.5 11.1 (P) 9.4    

Spartanburg
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 (2) 8.5 8.3 (P) 7.7    

Sumter
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 (2) 9.8 9.7 (P) 9.0    

Tennessee

  

Chattanooga, TN-GA
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 (2) 7.1 7.5 (P) 7.4    

Clarksville, TN-KY
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 (2) 8.1 8.6 (P) 8.4    

Cleveland
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 (2) 7.5 7.7 (P) 7.5    

Jackson
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 (2) 8.0 8.3 (P) 8.2    

Johnson City
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 (2) 7.0 7.5 (P) 7.5    

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA
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 (2) 7.1 7.4 (P) 7.1    

Knoxville
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 (2) 6.4 6.7 (P) 6.6    

Memphis, TN-MS-AR
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 (2) 8.5 9.3 (P) 9.3    

Morristown
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 (2) 9.1 10.1 (P) 9.8    

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin
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 (2) 6.5 6.4 (P) 6.3    

Footnotes
(1) Metropolitan Division
(2) Reflects revised inputs, reestimation, and adjustment to new state control totals.
(3) Reflects revised population controls and model reestimation.
(P) Preliminary

SOURCE: Local Area Unemployment Statistics
The State and regional data above are a product of the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program, a Federal-State cooperative program in which total employment and unemployment are measured for approximately 7,200 areas.
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Nonfarm wage and salary employment in the Southeast,
seasonally adjusted (in thousands)
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United States
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 133,397 135,171 (P) 135,309 (P) 135,474 (P) 2,077 (P) 1.6

Alabama
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 1,886.3 1,886.1 1,889.3 (P) 1,892.5 (P) 6.2 (P) 0.3

Delaware
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 (1) 417.9 426.8 424.7 (P) 424.4 (P) (1) 6.5 (P) (1) 1.6

District of Columbia
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 730.1 733.6 734.3 (P) 732.7 (P) 2.6 (P) 0.4

Florida
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 7,396.3 (1) 7,473.6 7,498.4 (P) 7,515.4 (P) 119.1 (P) 1.6

Georgia
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 3,948.7 4,000.4 4,012.5 (P) 4,016.8 (P) 68.1 (P) 1.7

Kentucky
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 1,822.5 1,843.8 1,833.0 (P) 1,836.2 (P) 13.7 (P) 0.8

Maryland
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 2,568.3 2,606.5 2,609.1 (P) 2,602.9 (P) 34.6 (P) 1.3

Mississippi
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 1,102.4 1,115.8 1,116.6 (P) 1,119.3 (P) 16.9 (P) 1.5

North Carolina
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 3,981.3 4,048.9 4,048.5 (P) 4,054.6 (P) 73.3 (P) 1.8

South Carolina
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 1,857.7 1,879.9 1,878.4 (P) 1,881.5 (P) 23.8 (P) 1.3

Tennessee
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 2,709.4 2,758.4 2,752.8 (P) 2,757.3 (P) 47.9 (P) 1.8

Virginia
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 3,729.2 3,761.2 3,753.8 (P) 3,765.9 (P) 36.7 (P) 1.0

West Virginia
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 767.3 769.0 769.6 (P) 769.5 (P) 2.2 (P) 0.3

Footnotes
(1) Correction
(P) Preliminary

SOURCE: Current Employment Statistics - National - State and Metropolitan Area
The Current Employment Statistics (CES) Survey is a monthly survey of business establishments which provides estimates of employment, hours, and earnings data by industry for the nation as a whole, all States, and most major metropolitan areas since 1939. The CES survey is a Federal-State cooperative program in which State employment security agencies prepare the data using concepts, definitions, and technical procedures prescribed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance in the Southeast,
not seasonally adjusted
Area

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United States
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 1,125 1,132
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 117,817 114,897

South (1)

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 289 290
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 31,925 32,616

South Atlantic
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 149 142
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 14,109 13,081

Delaware
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District of Columbia
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Florida
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 55 58
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 4,836 4,547

Georgia
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 8 8
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 1,069 999

Maryland
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 3 14
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 182 1,368

North Carolina
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 60 35
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 6,060 3,905

South Carolina
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 7 11
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 498 1,039

Virginia
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 13 13
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 1,206 1,042

West Virginia
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East South Central
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 64 67
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 6,899 7,405

Alabama
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 18 12
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 2,130 2,111

Kentucky
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 26 29
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 2,601 3,237

Mississippi
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 12 15
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 1,314 1,237

Tennessee
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Footnotes
(1) The South includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
(2) Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.

(-) Zero or data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.
SOURCE: Mass Layoff Statistics
Monthly data report summary information on establishments which have at least 50 initial claims for unemployment insurance (UI) filed against them during a 5-week period. Data are available for 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, as well as by industry.
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