September 26, 201212 yr Total Non-Farm Jobs, August 2012, highest to lowest. Cincinnati: 1,022,400 Cleveland: 1,009,500 Columbus: 936,600 Dayton: 376,000 Akron: 323,100 Toledo: 300,600 Youngstown: 225,900 Non-farm jobs change, August 2011-August 2012, best to worst. Cincinnati: +27,400 Columbus: +22,900 Cleveland: +9,200 Akron: +4,500 Youngstown: +3,600 Toledo: +1,400 Dayton: -1,800 Non-farm jobs change, August 2011-August 2012, by %, best to worst. Cincinnati: +2.8% Columbus: +2.5% Youngstown: +1.6% Akron: +1.4% Cleveland: +0.9% Toledo: +0.5% Dayton: -0.5% Mining/Logging/Construction Jobs, August 2012, and change from August 2011. Akron: 13,900 +1,200 Cincinnati: 40,000 -1,300 Cleveland: 33,800 -200 Columbus: 30,200 +900 Dayton: 11,400 -700 Toledo: 12,500 +200 Youngstown: 9,200 +100 Mining/Logging/Construction % Change, August 2011-August 2012, best to worst. Akron: +9.4% Columbus: +3.1% Toledo: +1.6% Youngstown: +1.1% Cleveland: -0.6% Cincinnati: -3.1% Dayton: -5.8% Manufacturing Jobs, August 2012, and change from August 2011. Akron: 42,900 +1,700 Cincinnati: 114,700 +7,300 Cleveland: 124,400 +3,000 Columbus: 62,100 -3,300 Dayton: 41,100 -200 Toledo: 39,100 -400 Youngstown: 31,400 +1,600 Interesting that the Cincinnati area has gained more manufacturing jobs the past year than all the Northern and Northeastern Ohio metros combined. And clearly Columbus' worst industry, which is not exactly unexpected. Manufacturing % Change, August 2011-August 2011, best to worst. Cincinnati: +6.8% Akron: +6.7% Youngstown: +5.4% Cleveland: +2.5% Dayton: -0.5% Toledo: -1.0% Columbus: -5.0% Trade/Transportation/Utilities Jobs, August 2012, and change from August 2011. Akron: 62,300 +500 Cincinnati: 202,800 +8,500 Cleveland: 180,200 +2,100 Columbus: 183,500 +6,200 Dayton: 62,000 +200 Toledo: 57,100 -1,200 Youngstown: 47,700 +1,500 Trade/Transporation/Utilities % Change, August 2011-August 2012, best to worst. Cincinnati: +4.4% Columbus: +3.5% Youngstown: +3.2% Cleveland: +1.2% Akron: +0.8% Dayton: +0.3% Toledo: -2.1% Information Jobs, August 2012, and change from August 2011. Akron: 3,800 +0 Cincinnati: 13,900 -100 Cleveland: 14,800 -500 Columbus: 16,700 -200 Dayton: 9,600 -200 Toledo: 3,400 +0 Youngstown: 2,300 -100 Financial Activities Jobs, August 2012, and change from August 2011. Akron: 13,800 +100 Cincinnati: 63,400 +900 Cleveland: 65,800 +1,600 Columbus: 72,900 +2,100 Dayton: 17,300 +200 Toledo: 11,200 +100 Youngstown: 8,900 +200 Financial Activities % Change, August 2011-August 2012, best to worst. Columbus: +3.0% Cleveland: +2.5% Youngstown: +2.3% Cincinnati: +1.4% Dayton: +1.2% Toledo: +0.9% Akron: +0.7% Professional and Business Services Jobs, August 2012, and change from August 2011. Akron: 50,400 +1,000 Cincinnati: 165,800 +12,800 Cleveland: 143,000 +1,400 Columbus: 153,500 +3,300 Dayton: 47,500 -2,400 Toledo: 33,800 +700 Youngstown: 21,400 -500 Professional and Business Services % Change, August 2011-August 2012, best to worst. Cincinnati: +8.4% Columbus: +2.2% Toledo: +2.1% Akron: +2.0% Cleveland: +1.0% Youngstown: -2.3% Dayton: -4.8% Health and Education Jobs, August 2012, and change from August 2011. Akron: 51,100 +800 Cincinnati: 150,500 +100 Cleveland: 190,200 +4,900 Columbus: 138,500 +10,400 Dayton: 69,100 +300 Toledo: 51,900 +200 Youngstown: 43,700 +500 Heatlh and Education % Change, August 2011-August 2012, best to worst. Columbus: +8.1% Cleveland: +2.6% Akron: +1.6% Youngstown: +1.2% Dayton: +0.4% Toledo: +0.4% Cincinnati: +0.1% Leisure and Hospitality Jobs, August 2012, and change from August 2011. Akron: 29,400 -1,400 Cincinnati: 112,700 +1,100 Cleveland: 90,000 -600 Columbus: 94,300 +3,700 Dayton: 40,400 +1,400 Toledo: 37,400 +3,300 Youngstown: 24,000 +1,000 Leisure and Hospitality % Change, August 2011-August 2012, best to worst. Toledo: +9.7% Youngstown: +4.3% Columbus: +4.1% Dayton: +3.6% Cincinnati: +1.0% Cleveland: -0.7% Akron: -4.5% Other Services Jobs, August 2012, and change from August 2011. Akron: 13,300 +0 Cincinnati: 41,300 +900 Cleveland: 42,400 +1,200 Columbus: 39,700 +4,400 Dayton: 15,400 +100 Toledo: 13,100 -100 Youngstown: 10,000 +100 Other Services % Change, August 2011-August 2012, best to worst. Columbus: +12.5% Cleveland: +2.9% Cincinnati: +2.2% Youngstown: +1.0% Dayton: +0.7% Akron: 0.0% Toledo: -0.8% Government Jobs, August 2012, and change from August 2011. Akron: 42,200 -400 Cincinnati: 117,300 -2,800 Cleveland: 124,900 -3,700 Columbus: 145,200 -4,600 Dayton: 62,200 -500 Toledo: 41,100 -1,400 Youngstown: 27,300 -800 Government % Change, August 2011-August 2012, best to worst. Dayton: -0.8% Akron: -0.9% Cincinnati: -2.3% Youngstown: -2.8% Cleveland: -2.9% Columbus: -3.1% Toledo: -3.3%
September 26, 201212 yr Employment change, August 2011-August 2012, best to worst. Cincinnati: +28,000 Columbus: +23,700 Akron: +5,900 Youngstown: +3,900 Toledo: +2,000 Dayton: -400 Cleveland: -14,300 Wow, I thought Cleveland and Dayton were booming? The news keeps bragging about how unemployment rates have fallen in those two cities. I'm shocked Toledo and Youngstown showed net gains. Maybe they have hit bottom. Still, it's ridiculous how well Cincinnati and Columbus are doing, some of the strongest gains in the country.
September 26, 201212 yr ^Cleveland's numbers don't make sense to me... how could the metro have lost 14,000 jobs over a year when the breakdown shows the only industries taking a loss were mining and construction (-200), information (-500), leisure and hospitality (-600), and government jobs (-3700)? That's a loss of 5000 jobs. The rest of the industries listed all showed positive gains, totaling 17400 combined. Maybe my thinking is wrong, but subtracting the total losses (5000) from the total gains (17400) leaves 12400 jobs gained over the period given. How is it the region lost 14,300 jobs instead? Can someone explain?
September 26, 201212 yr ^Don't put too much stock in those numbers (see a few pages back). If they are correct, then Cleveland lost more than 23,000 farm jobs over the last year. (-14,300 overall change, but a gain of 9,200 non-farm jobs over the same period???). I'm not sure we have 23,000 farm jobs to begin with.
September 26, 201212 yr ^^Just to review the data issues: the "employment" numbers count employed people (not jobs) and are based on a survey of households. The second set of numbers (broken down by sector) are based on a survey of establishments (not people), and count jobs on payroll. So technically, the data show that Cleveland gained non-farm jobs from August 2011-2012. There are good reasons why the numbers won't always line up (e.g., self-employed people, people who commute to jobs outside the MSA, people holding two jobs), but they don't appear to explain the wide variance between the two sets of data we've been seeing. Note the the same weird divergence has been observed for the country as a whole: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/08/04/number-of-the-week-did-u-s-actually-shed-195000-jobs-in-july/
September 26, 201212 yr Let's also not forget that as surveys, they are going to have some margin of error, likely larger than the month to month or even year over year changes of any one set of numbers. It's really better to use them to track long term trends, but that requires serious analysis, not simple arithmetic. And we're lucky when we get even that from most sources.
September 26, 201212 yr Exactly, while these numbers may not have the great accuracy, they are surely interesting to look at for long term trends... if anyone is feeling up to making pretty charts and graphs. :-)
September 27, 201212 yr ^Cleveland's numbers don't make sense to me... how could the metro have lost 14,000 jobs over a year when the breakdown shows the only industries taking a loss were mining and construction (-200), information (-500), leisure and hospitality (-600), and government jobs (-3700)? That's a loss of 5000 jobs. The rest of the industries listed all showed positive gains, totaling 17400 combined. Maybe my thinking is wrong, but subtracting the total losses (5000) from the total gains (17400) leaves 12400 jobs gained over the period given. How is it the region lost 14,300 jobs instead? Can someone explain? Cleveland didn't lose 14K jobs, it gained 9,200. The 14K loss was the number of people of working age in the metro that became unemployed. They're measuring two different things.
September 27, 201212 yr ^Don't put too much stock in those numbers (see a few pages back). If they are correct, then Cleveland lost more than 23,000 farm jobs over the last year. (-14,300 overall change, but a gain of 9,200 non-farm jobs over the same period???). I'm not sure we have 23,000 farm jobs to begin with. Again, the 14,300 were not jobs, but the number of people employed.
September 27, 201212 yr So the numbers are not exact, but several tends are clear: Cincy & Columbus are doing very well, the smaller metros in the north had hit bottom & are now in recovery, and Dayton & Cleveland seem to still be struggling.
September 27, 201212 yr Until the Cleveland MSA area is expanded like the Columbus & Cincinnati MSA's arbitrarily were, most of this apples to oranges analysis is just that..
September 27, 201212 yr Dayton is going to be hit by the coming defense cuts. Defense spending (which is also refelceted in the Professional, Science, and Technology sector as well as "goverment"), and the med sector, are what is keeping this economy alive.
September 27, 201212 yr ^Don't put too much stock in those numbers (see a few pages back). If they are correct, then Cleveland lost more than 23,000 farm jobs over the last year. (-14,300 overall change, but a gain of 9,200 non-farm jobs over the same period???). I'm not sure we have 23,000 farm jobs to begin with. Again, the 14,300 were not jobs, but the number of people employed. Ahhh..... but it still doesn't quite add up for me. Cleveland lost 27,000 from its labor force between August 2011 and August 2012. I can believe that. There was a net change of -14,000 of people employed. I can believe that too. Yet we had a net positive growth of 9,000 "non-farm" jobs. This is what doesn't seem to jive, even if it is using a different albeit related metric. The only thing I can think of to explain this is either (a) there are literally thousands and thousands of jobs sitting unfilled in the area; or (b) the bls has redefined what constitutes a "farm" job by moving many which previously qualified into the "non-farm" job category. Do you have the numbers for "farm" job change?
September 27, 201212 yr Yea, the Cleveland numbers make zero sense to me. The articles and press releases posted here show Cleveland is growing: http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2012/07/sales_tax_collections_up_57_pe.html http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/09/exports_from_greater_cleveland.html Red Line For the months of January through June, from the year 1995 to 2012, the Red Line has carried over 3 million passengers only once. That was this year (2012) with 3,079,800! So let me get this straight... sales tax revenue is up, exports through the port of Cleveland is up, the Red Line has more riders than they have had in fifteen years... but we're still shrinking? Has anyone ever actually participated in these surveys used to generate the numbers?
September 27, 201212 yr ^We may very well be losing jobs on the whole. The economy is being reinvented. The assembly-line manufacturing has gone to China. High-skilled manufacturing and bio-medical engineering is growing. Sometimes you have to look beyond the numbers to understand why the overall picture is improving. I would suspect the biggest reason for increases in people employed is down-sizing in the public sector. Again, you can look at the raw numbers and say that things look bleak..... but that change should pay off in the long-term. If we ever do regionalize on a grander scale, the short-term pain will be enormous but the long-term gain should make the juice worth the squeeze.
September 27, 201212 yr In terms of local govt jobs, I agree that short term pain = long term gain. Still a long way to go but the progress is encouraging. As for these figures, they don't account for what I consider the most important factor: low pay for too many of the new jobs. 100% employment at $10/hr is a disaster.
September 27, 201212 yr Until the Cleveland MSA area is expanded like the Columbus & Cincinnati MSA's arbitrarily were, most of this apples to oranges analysis is just that.. ? How were they arbitrarily expanded? They have to follow the same guidelines as all other metros, and the metro itself does not have any say in the matter. Further, the metro size wouldn't have anything to do with job performance.
September 27, 201212 yr ^ Are you saying that including Akron wouldn't help Cleveland's stats? These numbers suggest that it would, unless I'm reading them very wrong. Any guidlines that put Dayton in Cincy but separate Akron from Cleveland are questionable on their face.
September 27, 201212 yr ^Don't put too much stock in those numbers (see a few pages back). If they are correct, then Cleveland lost more than 23,000 farm jobs over the last year. (-14,300 overall change, but a gain of 9,200 non-farm jobs over the same period???). I'm not sure we have 23,000 farm jobs to begin with. Again, the 14,300 were not jobs, but the number of people employed. Ahhh..... but it still doesn't quite add up for me. Cleveland lost 27,000 from its labor force between August 2011 and August 2012. I can believe that. There was a net change of -14,000 of people employed. I can believe that too. Yet we had a net positive growth of 9,000 "non-farm" jobs. This is what doesn't seem to jive, even if it is using a different albeit related metric. The only thing I can think of to explain this is either (a) there are literally thousands and thousands of jobs sitting unfilled in the area; or (b) the bls has redefined what constitutes a "farm" job by moving many which previously qualified into the "non-farm" job category. Do you have the numbers for "farm" job change? Civilian labor force is basically everyone in the metro area that is of working age. When it sees drops, there are usually two reasons for it.. 1. The population overall is dropping, or 2. The economy is perceived to be mediocre to bad and people drop out altogether. Employed is all the people in the metro of working age that are, obviously, employed. Unemployed is again, all the people in the metro area of working age that don't have jobs. When this drops, it does so for a couple reasons, 1. More people are becoming employed, or 2. More people have stopped looking for work and have stopped being counted. Non-Farm Jobs is basically what it is... the number of jobs in a metro area that are not directly related to farming. If it goes up, that's good, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it's enough for all the people that need jobs. Or that those that are unemployed are qualified for the jobs that are available. So you can having rising unemployment at the same time you have rising numbers of non-farm jobs. You can also have it when population rises but non-farm jobs growth doesn't match the increase in population. There are a lot of ways the numbers influence each other, or that external factors influence the numbers. Either way, they're not exact and they shouldn't be read as completely corresponding with each other. I've never seen numbers that are "farm jobs".
September 27, 201212 yr Yea, the Cleveland numbers make zero sense to me. The articles and press releases posted here show Cleveland is growing: http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2012/07/sales_tax_collections_up_57_pe.html http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/09/exports_from_greater_cleveland.html Red Line For the months of January through June, from the year 1995 to 2012, the Red Line has carried over 3 million passengers only once. That was this year (2012) with 3,079,800! So let me get this straight... sales tax revenue is up, exports through the port of Cleveland is up, the Red Line has more riders than they have had in fifteen years... but we're still shrinking? Has anyone ever actually participated in these surveys used to generate the numbers? You can have all those things WITHOUT a growing population. It doesn't mean that Cleveland isn't growing now, but those conditions can and do exist even if there aren't more people.
September 27, 201212 yr ^ Are you saying that including Akron wouldn't help Cleveland's stats? These numbers suggest that it would, unless I'm reading them very wrong. Any guidlines that put Dayton in Cincy but separate Akron from Cleveland are questionable on their face. Wouldn't help Cleveland's stats with what? Cincinnati and Dayton aren't the same metro.
September 27, 201212 yr I think X's reminder really needs to be emphasized here. These data are based on sampling through two completely separate surveying processes. Any month to month comparisons are going to show a lot of random noise that may or may not correspond to real trends.
October 23, 201212 yr September 2012 Ohio Unemployment Rate: 7.0% Down from 7.2% in August. By City in September 2012, best to worst and change from August. Columbus: 5.8% -0.3% Akron: 6.9% -0.5% Cincinnati: 6.9% -0.7% Toledo: 8.2% -0.1% Dayton: 8.3% -0.6% Cleveland: 8.8% -0.7% Youngstown: 8.9% -0.5% By City, Change from January to September 2012, best to worst. Akron: -2.4% Youngstown: -2.3% Dayton: -2.1% Cincinnati: -1.9%. Toledo: -1.8% Cleveland: -1.4% Columbus: -1.4% By County in September 2012, best to worst and change from August. Franklin: 5.8% -0.3% Summit: 6.2% -0.3% Hamilton: 6.4% -0.4% Cuyahoga: 6.9% -0.4% Mahoning: 6.9% -0.4% Montgomery: 7.3% -0.3% Lucas: 7.5% -0.1% By County, Change from January to September 2012, best to worst. Mahoning: -2.7% Summit: -2.3% Hamilton: -1.9% Lucas: -1.9% Montgomery: -1.8% Frankling: -1.3% Cuyahoga: -1.0% By Metro in September 2012, best to worst and change from August. Columbus: 5.7% -0.3% Akron: 6.1% -0.3% Cincinnati: 6.4% -0.4% Cleveland: 6.5% -0.4% Dayton: 6.9% -0.4% Toledo: 7.2% -0.1% Youngstown: 7.6% -0.3% By Metro, Change January to September 2012, best to worst. Akron: -2.3% Toledo: -2.3% Cincinnati: -2.1% Dayton: -2.0% Youngstown: -1.7% Columbus: -1.6% Cleveland: -1.5%
October 23, 201212 yr Metro Civilian Labor Force, September 2012 and change from September 2011, best to worst. Columbus: 962,200 +9,400 Cincinnati: 1,108,100 +3,900 Akron: 371,800 -1,700 Youngstown: 265,800 -2,700 Toledo: 315,500 -6,100 Dayton: 405,000 -7,800 Cleveland: 1,071,700 -16,400 Metro Employment, September 2012 and change from September 2011, best to worst. Columbus: 907,400 +25,100 Cincinnati: 1,036,900 +24,800 Akron: 349,000 +5,400 Youngstown: 245,700 +600 Dayton: 376,900 +300 Toledo: 293,000 -100 Cleveland: 1,001,500 -4,900 Metro Unemployment, September 2012 and change from September 2011, best to worst. Cincinnati: 71,200 -20,900 Columbus: 54,800 -15,600 Cleveland: 70,200 -11,500 Dayton: 28,100 -8,100 Akron: 22,800 -7,100 Toledo: 22,600 -5,800 Youngstown: 20,100 -3,300 Metro Non-Farm Jobs, September 2012 and change from September 2011, best to worst. Columbus: 940,100 +24,000 Cincinnati: 1,021,000 +23,200 Cleveland: 1,005,200 +13,100 Akron: 324,000 +4,200 Dayton: 378,300 -1,100 Toledo: 302,700 -1,300 Youngstown: 224,600 -1,300
October 23, 201212 yr Columbus: 907,400 +25,100 Cincinnati: 1,036,900 +24,800 Akron: 349,000 +5,400 Youngstown: 245,700 +600 Dayton: 376,900 +300 Toledo: 293,000 -100 Cleveland: 1,001,500 -4,900 Wow, looks like the early 2000's, with Cincinnati and Columbus pulling away from the rest of the state.
October 23, 201212 yr Metro Mining/Logging/Construction Jobs, September 2012 and change from 2011, best to worst. Akron: 13,400 +900 Columbus: 30,300 +200 Toledo: 12,200 +0 Youngstown: 8,900 -300 Dayton: 11,000 -800 Cincinnati: 39,900 -1,300 Cleveland: 32,800 -1,400 Metro Manufacturing Jobs, September 2012 and change from 2011, best to worst. Cleveland: 123,800 +5,200 Cincinnati: 114,000 +4,800 Akron: 42,000 +1,900 Dayton: 40,900 +900 Youngstown: 30,600 +300 Toledo: 38,700 -800 Columbus: 62,200 -3,700 Metro Trade/Transportation/Utilities Jobs, September 2012 and change from 2011, best to worst. Cincinnati: 202,700 +9,600 Columbus: 184,400 +9,100 Cleveland: 179,500 +3,500 Youngstown: 47,300 +900 Akron: 62,000 +300 Dayton: 61,300 -400 Toledo: 55,800 -2,100 Metro Financial Jobs, September 2012 and change from 2011, best to worst. Cleveland: 64,900 +1,000 Columbus: 72,100 +900 Cincinnati: 61,900 +500 Dayton: 17,100 +200 Akron: 13,700 +100 Toledo: 11,000 +100 Youngstown: 8,800 +100 Professional and Business Services Jobs, September 2012 and change from 2011, best to worst. Cincinnati: 161,900 +10,000 Columbus: 153,800 +4,400 Akron: 50,200 +1,500 Cleveland: 140,700 +500 Youngstown: 21,200 -900 Toledo: 33,400 -1,300 Dayton: 47,500 -2,300 Health and Education Jobs, September 2012 and change from 2011, best to worst. Columbus: 139,800 +8,600 Cleveland: 192,300 +5,700 Toledo: 52,300 +1,000 Akron: 50,800 +400 Dayton: 70,400 +200 Cincinnati: 150,900 -100 Youngstown: 43,300 -100 Leisure and Hospitality Jobs, September 2012 and change from 2011, best to worst. Toledo: 37,400 +3,600 Columbus: 92,200 +2,500 Cincinnati: 111,800 +1,900 Dayton: 39,900 +1,200 Cleveland: 85,800 +800 Akron: 28,500 +100 Youngstown: 23,300 +0 Other Services Jobs, September 2012 and change from 2011, best to worst. Columbus: 40,200 +5,600 Cleveland: 42,300 +1,000 Cincinnati: 40,800 +600 Dayton: 15,300 +100 Akron: 13,100 +0 Youngstown: 9,900 +0 Toledo: 13,000 -100 Government Jobs, September 2012 and change from 2011, best to worst. Dayton: 65,500 +200 Akron: 46,500 -1,000 Youngstown: 29,000 -1,300 Toledo: 45,500 -1,700 Cleveland: 128,500 -2,700 Cincinnati: 123,500 -2,800 Columbus: 148,500 -3,400
November 22, 201212 yr Not going to do a full update this month. Instead I'm going to do some general stats and recession recovery update. October Ohio Unemployment Rate: 6.9% -0.1% from September Metro Unemployment Rates, best to worst, and change from September 1. Columbus: 5.4% -0.3% 2. Akron: 5.9% -0.2% 3. Cleveland: 6.1% -0.4% 4. Cincinnati: 6.3% -0.1% 5. Dayton: 6.6% -0.3% 7. Toledo: 6.9% -0.3% 8. Youngstown: 7.4% -0.2% County Unemployment Rates, best to worst, and change from September 1. Franklin: 5.5% -0.3% 2. Summit: 5.9% -0.3% 3. Cuyahoga: 6.2% -0.8% 4. Hamilton: 6.2% -0.2% 5. Mahoning: 6.6% -0.3% 6. Montgomery: 6.9% -0.4% 7. Lucas: 7.3% -0.3% City Unemployment Rates, best to worst, and change from September 1. Columbus: 5.5% -0.3% 2. Akron: 6.5% -0.3% 3. Cincinnati: 6.8% -0.1% 4. Cleveland: 7.9% -1.0% 5. Dayton: 8.0% -0.3% 6. Toledo: 8.0% -0.2% 7. Youngstown: 8.6% -0.2%
November 22, 201212 yr Metro Industry % Recovery from Respective Recession Bottom to October 2012 Civilian Labor Force Recovery, best to worst. 1. Columbus: 81.1% 2. Cincinnati: 53.5% 3. Youngstown: 20.3% 4. Akron: 19.6% 5. Cleveland: 6.0% 6. Toledo: 3.7% 7. Dayton: 0.0% October was lowest for Dayton. Employment Recovery, best to worst. 1. Columbus: 81.4% 2. Cincinnati: 62.1% 3. Dayton: 52.0% 4. Youngstown: 47.1% 5. Cleveland: 43.2% 6. Akron: 39.9% 7. Toledo: 39.7% Unemployment Recovery, best to worst 1. Cleveland: 93.5% 2. Toledo: 87.9% 3. Dayton: 86.2% 4. Akron: 86.1% 5. Youngstown: 80.9% 6. Columbus: 79.5% 7. Cincinnati: 70.7% Unemployment Rate Drop, best to worst. 1. Toledo: -48.9% 2. Akron: -48.7% 3. Dayton: -46.8% 4. Youngstown: -45.2% 5. Columbus: -43.7% 6. Cincinnati: -41.1% 7. Cleveland: -37.8% Non-Farm Jobs Recovery, best to worst. 1. Columbus: 84.3% 2. Akron: 57.5% 3. Cincinnati: 49.4% 4. Cleveland: 47.0% 5. Dayton: 42.7% 6. Youngstown: 38.7% 7. Toledo: 34.4% Mining/Logging/Construction Recovery, best to worst. 1. Akron: 58.8% 2. Youngstown: 44.2% 3. Dayton: 43.8% 4. Cleveland: 35.7% 5. Cincinnati: 34.9% 6. Columbus: 31.5% 7. Toledo: 26.1% Manufacturing Recovery, best to worst. 1. Cincinnati: 62.6% 2. Akron: 47.0% 3. Youngstown: 37.0% 4. Toledo: 32.8% 5. Cleveland: 22.1% 6. Dayton: 20.2% 7. Columbus: 2.3% Trade/Transportation/Utilities Recovery, best to worst. 1. Columbus: 40.9% 2. Cincinnati: 40.3% 3. Youngstown: 26.3% 4. Cleveland: 24.3% 5. Akron: 16.1% 6. Toledo: 13.4% 7. Dayton: 11.8% Professional and Business Services Recovery, best to worst. 1. Columbus: 98.6% 2. Youngstown: 82.1% 3. Cleveland: 73.7% 4. Akron: 69.5% 5. Toledo: 67.2% 6. Cincinnati: 63.1% 7. Dayton: 58.2% Financial Activities Recovery, best to worst. 1. Columbus: 57.6% 2. Akron: 45.5% 3. Cincinnati: 43.1% 4. Youngstown: 25.0% 5. Dayton: 13.9% 6. Toledo: 7.7% 7. Cleveland: 5.7% Health and Education GROWTH, January 2007-October 2012, best to worst. 1. Columbus: 29.6% 2. Cleveland: 13.5% 3. Akron: 11.5% 4. Dayton: 9.6% 5. Cincinnati: 9.3% 6. Youngstown: 6.7% 7. Toledo: 5.6% Leisure and Hospitality Recovery, best to worst. 1. Dayton: 110.2% 2. Columbus: 86.1% 3. Toledo: 77.6% 4. Cincinnati: 76.0% 5. Youngstown: 57.4% 6. Akron: 32.6% 7. Cleveland: 26.3% Other Services Recovery, best to worst. 1. Columbus: 150.0% 2. Cincinnati: 42.9% 3. Akron: 41.7% 4. Dayton: 36.8% 5. Youngstown: 30.0% 6. Cleveland: 20.5% 7. Toledo: 15.4% Government Recovery, best to worst. 1. Dayton: 120.8% 2. Akron: 100.0% 3 Youngstown: 60.0% 4. Cincinnati: 51.3% 5. Toledo: 44.9% 6. Columbus: 29.6% 7. Cleveland: 18.3%
November 26, 201212 yr Matthew Hall has left the building. Everyone else, please proceed with the discussion.
December 6, 201212 yr MSA Net Change in Non-Farm Jobs, Oct 2011-2012 New York +128,000 Houston +95,800 Los Angeles +78,300 Dallas +66,500 San Francisco +52,000 Seattle +51,600 Boston +42,900 Phoenix +40,800 Chicago +37,800 Washington DC +37,300 Atlanta +33,700 Denver +31,800 San Jose +31,400 Cincinnati +28,400 Austin +28,200 San Diego +23,500 San Antonio +23,400 Orlando +21,700 Columbus +21,100 Minneapolis +19,400 Tampa +19,300 St Louis +15,200 Salt Lake City +15,100 Sacramento +15,000 Charlotte +14,500 Philadelphia +12,700 Cleveland +12,400 Baltimore +11,300 Portland +9,300 Indianapolis +8,500 Detroit +7,300 Riverside +7,300 Kansas City +6,500 Pittsburgh +6,200 Las Vegas +5,300 Memphis +5,100 Virginia Beach +4,400 Nashville +4,100 Providence +2,200 Miami +100 New Orleans -2,300
December 11, 201212 yr very cool. Let's keep those jobs coming, and hopefully also having more of them grow in the city cores than just in the exurbs. looking forward to the next update.
January 23, 201312 yr Looks like Cincinnati Metro leads Ohio in 2012 jobs creation. CINCINNATI METRO--24,600 jobs COLUMBUS METRO--17,300 jobs CLEVELAND METRO--12,800 jobs DAYTON METRO--2,600 jobs Source: http://www.journal-news.com/news/news/region-leads-state-in-job-creation/nT4Ys/
January 23, 201312 yr Got me. I posted it up hoping that other's could provide some more sources. It seems under-reported in Cincy. http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/trends/2007/1107/02regact-3.gif
January 24, 201312 yr I remember once reading that something like 70% of the jobs in the metro are on the Ohio side but I don't remember where I heard that. Will try to find out
January 24, 201312 yr Yeah, I've been slacking off on my updates with this. I'll try to update for November and December soon.
February 1, 201312 yr Okay, so here's quick, but late November 2012 jobs report. Ohio Unemployment Rate: 6.8" City Unemployment Rates and Change from November 2011, best to worst. Columbus: 5.5% -1.1 Akron: 6.6% -1.7 Cincinnati: 6.9% -1.5 Dayton: 8.0% -1.7 Toledo: 8.0% -1.0 Youngstown: 8.6% -1.9 Cleveland: 8.9% -0.7 County Unemployment Rates and Change from November 2011, best to worst. Franklin: 5.5% -1.1 Summit: 6.0% -1.4 Hamilton: 6.4% -1.3 Mahoning: 6.9% -1.3 Cuyahoga: 7.0% -0.2 Montgomery: 7.0% -1.3 Lucas: 7.4% -1.0 Metro Area Unemployment Rates and Change from November 2011, best to worst. Columbus: 5.5% -1.0 Akron: 6.0% -1.2 Cincinnati: 6.4% -1.2 Cleveland: 6.7% -0.1 Dayton: 6.7% -1.3 Toledo: 7.2% -1.0 Youngstown: 7.4% -0.7 Metro Area Civilian Labor Force and Change from November 2011, best to worst. Columbus: 965,800 +6,600 Cincinnati: 1,104,700 +5,500 Youngstown: 267,700 +2,500 Akron: 375,200 +1,400 Toledo: 316,500 -4,000 Dayton: 407,900 -4,200 Cleveland: 1,053,700 -31,000 Metro Area Employment and Change from November 2011, best to worst. Cincinnati: 1,034,600 +18,600 Columbus: 912,800 +16,100 Akron: 352,600 +5,800 Youngstown: 247,900 +4,300 Dayton: 380,600 +1,400 Toledo: 293,800 -500 Cleveland: 982,900 -27,800 Metro Area Unemployment and Change from November 2011, best to worst. Cincinnati: 70,200 -13,000 Columbus: 53,000 -9,400 Dayton: 27,300 -5,500 Akron: 22,600 -4,300 Toledo: 22,800 -3,400 Cleveland: 70,800 -3,200 Yongstown: 19,800 -1,800 Metro Area Non-Farm Jobs and Change from November 2011, best to worst. Cincinnati: 1,025,300 +23,900 Columbus: 951,200 +20,200 Cleveland: 1,006,500 +10,600 Akron: 330,300 +7,000 Youngstown: 228,200 +4,000 Dayton: 384,600 +2,300 Toledo: 305,400 +300
February 1, 201312 yr Thanks for the work. Are 2012 numbers available? The annual averages come out in March.
February 1, 201312 yr Looks like Cincinnati Metro leads Ohio in 2012 jobs creation. CINCINNATI METRO--24,600 jobs COLUMBUS METRO--17,300 jobs CLEVELAND METRO--12,800 jobs DAYTON METRO--2,600 jobs Source: http://www.journal-news.com/news/news/region-leads-state-in-job-creation/nT4Ys/ What I've found most revealing and useful is this concise Ohio 2012 job summary, and I appreciate Willabro for posting it.
February 1, 201312 yr Thanks for the update! Cincinnati is looking great, but apparently it has a small jobs loss in December which is pretty crazy considering the huge growth of the last few months. One could see the growth slowing before actually posting a decrease.
February 2, 201312 yr Thanks for the update! Cincinnati is looking great, but apparently it has a small jobs loss in December which is pretty crazy considering the huge growth of the last few months. One could see the growth slowing before actually posting a decrease. Yeah, it looks like just about everywhere slowed down in December from November, probably a consequence of the uncertainty caused by Congress' fumbling of the fiscal cliff issue. Now that that's resolved (for now), I think things will gradually start picking up again. The good news is that, even with the small downturn, the numbers were up from the year before, and that's what I prefer to look at anyway. Month to month is too volatile to really get a sense of long-term trends.
February 2, 201312 yr I think all the metros are doing comparatively well--especially to the country at large, in unemployment terms. Hard to complain about that. It's nice to be one of the states that gets listed as having an unemployment rate "significantly lower" than the national rate.
July 19, 201311 yr May Update (hopefully not deleted) Metro Civilian Labor Force, May 2013 and change from May 2012, best to worst Columbus: 976,660 +7,846 Cincinnati: 1,097,665 +5,201 Akron: 374,995 +4,721 Toledo: 320,870 +2,919 Youngstown: 266,747 -40 Dayton: 402,518 -2,115 Cleveland: 1,041,922 -14,645 Metro Civilian Labor Force, April 2013-May 2013, best to worst. Columbus: +12,226 Cincinnati: +11,082 Cleveland: +8,039 Toledo: +5,019 Youngstown: +3,296 Dayton: +3,031 Akron: +2,202 Employment May 2013 and change from May 2012, best to worst. Columbus: 918,500 +7,215 Cincinnati: 1,022,801 +5,390 Akron: 350,285 +3,858 Toledo: 296,039 +1,719 Youngstown: 246,050 -1,107 Dayton: 373,266 -1,976 Cleveland: 979,060 -12,107 Employment April 2013-May 2013, best to worst. Columbus: +8,714 Cleveland: +6,398 Cincinnati: +6,392 Toledo: +4,391 Youngstown: +2,721 Dayton: +1,618 Akron: +1,507 Unemployment May 2013 and change from May 2012, best to worst. Cleveland: 82,100 -2,538 Cincinnati: 74,864 -189 Dayton: 29,252 -139 Columbus: 58,160 +631 Akron: 24,710 +863 Youngstown: 20,697 +1,067 Toledo: 24,831 +1,200 Unemployment April 2013-May 2013, best to worst. Youngstown: +575 Toledo: +628 Akron: +695 Dayton: +1,413 Cleveland: +1,641 Columbus: +3,512 Cincinnati: +4,690 Unemployment Rate May 2013 and change from May 2012, best to worst. Cincinnati: 6.8% -0.1 Cleveland: 6.8% -0.1 Dayton: 7.3% 0.0 Columbus: 6.0% +0.1 Akron: 6.6% +0.2 Toledo: 7.7% +0.3 Youngstown: 7.8% +0.4 Unemployment Rate April 2013-May 2013, best to worst. Toledo: 0.0 Akron: +0.2 Cleveland: +0.2 Youngstown: +0.2 Cincinnati: +0.3 Columbus: +0.3 Dayton: +0.3 Non-Farm Jobs May 2013 and change from May 2012, best to worst. Columbus: 966,900 +12,200 Cincinnati: 1,022,500 +10,600 Akron: 330,700 +6,000 Toledo: 310,700 +3,300 Youngstown: 228,000 -500 Dayton: 380,000 -1,300 Cleveland: 1,020,600 -5,100
July 23, 201311 yr June 2013 and Year to Date Civilian Labor Force June 2013 and Change from June 2012, best to worst. Columbus: 994,000 +13,600- This is a record high for Columbus. Akron: 377,100 +4,200 Toledo: 323,200 +2,700 Youngstown: 269,500 +1,000 Cincinnati: 1,107,300 +400 Dayton: 406,500 -1,600 Cleveland: 1,061,200 -9,600 Civilian Labor Force Change May to June 2013, best to worst. Cleveland: +19,300 Columbus: +17,300 Cincinnati: +9,600 Dayton: +4,000 Youngstown: +2,800 Toledo: +2,300 Akron: +2,100 Civilian Labor Force Change Year to Date, best to worst. Cincinnati: +31,900 Columbus: +26,100 Cleveland: +17,900 Toledo: +7,100 Dayton: +5,800 Youngstown: +5,600 Akron: +5,500 Employment June 2013 and Change from June 2012, best to worst. Columbus: 930,600 +21,600- This is a record high for Columbus. Toledo: 296,500 +4,900 Akron: 350,400 +3,600 Youngstown: 247,000 +800 Dayton: 374,800 -1,100 Cincinnati: 1,025,900 -9,900 Cleveland: 979,100 -9,900 Employment Change May-June 2013, best to worst. Columbus: +12,100 Cleveland: +7,500 Cincinnati: +3,100 Dayton: +1,500 Youngstown: +900 Toledo: +500 Akron: +100 Employment Change Year to Date, best to worst. Cincinnati: +36,900 Columbus: +30,100 Cleveland: +21,800 Toledo: +11,100 Dayton: +8,800 Youngstown: +8,700 Akron: +8,600 Unemployment June 2013 and Change from June 2012, best to worst. Dayton: 31,700 -100 Cleveland: 82,100 +300 Youngstown: 22,500 +300 Cincinnati: 81,500 +500 Akron: 26,700 +800 Columbus: 63,400 +1,100 Toledo: 26,700 +1,100 Unemployment Change May-June 2013, best to worst. Youngstown: +1,800 Toledo: +1,900 Akron: +2,000 Dayton: +2,400 Columbus: +5,200 Cincinnati: +6,600 Cleveland: +11,800 Unemployment Change Year to Date, best to worst. Cincinnati: -4,900 Columbus: -4,000 Toledo: -4,000 Cleveland: -3,900 Youngstown: -3,200 Akron: -3,100 Dayton: -3,000 Unemployment Rate June 2013 and Change from June 2012, best to worst. Columbus: 6.4% +0 Dayton: 7.8% +0 Youngstown: 8.3% +0 Akron: 7.1% +0.1 Cleveland: 7.7% +0.1 Cincinnati: 7.4% +0.2 Toledo: 8.3% +0.2 Unemployment Rate Change May-June 2013, best to worst. Columbus: +0.4 Akron: +0.5 Dayton: +0.5 Youngstown: +0.5 Cincinnati: +0.6 Toledo: +0.6 Cleveland: +0.9 Unemployment Rate Change Year to Date, best to worst. Toledo: -1.4 Youngstown: -1.4 Akron: -0.9 Dayton: -0.9 Cincinnati: -0.6 Columbus: -0.6 Cleveland: -0.5
July 23, 201311 yr Industry June 2013 and Year to Date Non-farm Jobs June 2013 and Change Year to Date, best to worst. Cincinnati: 1,020,000 +36,700 Columbus: 974,700 +31,100 Cleveland: 1,024,700 +26,300 Toledo: 310,000 +11,500 Dayton: 380,100 +8,600 Youngstown: 227,900 +8,300 Akron: 328,700 +8,000 Mining/Logging/Construction June 2013 and Change Year to Date, best to worst. Columbus: 31,900 +5,000 Akron: 13,300 +4,700 Cincinnati: 37,000 +4,200 Toledo: 12,500 +2,800 Cleveland: 34,500 +2,700 Youngstown: 9,600 +2,000 Dayton: 11,800 +1,500 Manufacturing June 2013 and Change Year to Date, best to worst. Columbus: 67,800 +2,800 Cleveland: 123,700 +1,900 Cincinnati: 106,800 +1,500 Toledo: 41,600 +600 Youngstown: 30,600 +500 Dayton: 40,400 +0 Akron: 39,500 -300 Trade/Transportation/Utilities June 2013 and Change Year to Date, best to worst. Cincinnati: 201,800 +6,600 Dayton: 66,300 +1,700 Akron: 64,700 +1,300 Youngstown: 46,200 +0 Cleveland: 180,400 -100 Columbus: 182,300 -900 Toledo: 58,500 -900 Financial Activities June 2013 and Change Year to Date, best to worst. Cincinnati: 64,100 +1,500 Cleveland: 65,000 +1,500 Dayton: 17,900 +400 Toledo: 10,900 +200 Akron: 13,600 +100 Columbus: 71,700 +0 Youngstown: 7,900 +0 Professional and Business Services June 2013 and Change Year to Date, best to worst. Columbus: 162,700 +7,100 Cleveland: 141,300 +4,400 Toledo: 36,100 +3,800 Cincinnati: 165,600 +3,100 Akron: 51,800 +1,600 Youngstown: 23,500 +900 Dayton: 49,300 +0 Education and Health Services June 2013 and Change Year to Date, best to worst. Columbus: 143,200 +3,700 Cincinnati: 153,600 +2,300 Akron: 53,400 +1,500 Youngstown: 44,400 +1,500 Cleveland: 194,400 +200 Dayton: 69,300 +100 Toledo: 50,500 -500 Leisure and Hospitality June 2013 and Change Year to Date, best to worst. Cincinnati: 116,800 +17,300 Columbus: 102,400 +13,900 Cleveland: 96,700 +12,700 Toledo: 40,800 +7,100 Youngstown: 25,600 +4,000 Akron: 31,600 +3,900 Dayton: 38,100 +3,900 Other Services June 2013 and Change Year to Date, best to worst. Cincinnati: 39,000 +1,300 Cleveland: 41,500 +1,100 Columbus: 36,700 +500 Dayton: 14,800 +500 Youngstown: 9,800 +400 Akron: 13,200 +300 Toledo: 11,500 +300 Government June 2013 and Change Year to Date, best to worst. Cleveland: 132,200 +2,000 Dayton: 63,500 +500 Columbus: 159,600 -900 Youngstown: 28,200 -1,000 Cincinnati: 121,700 -1,100 Toledo: 44,300 -1,800 Akron: 43,800 -5,200
July 23, 201311 yr So overall, not terrible numbers. It's good to see every metro's labor force growing.
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