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Camden and Dallas had highest percent increases in employment for year ended February 2017
April 18, 2017
From February 2016 to February 2017, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 34 of the 38 metropolitan divisions and fell in 4. The largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment among the metropolitan divisions occurred in Camden, New Jersey, and Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas (+3.7 percent each). The largest over-the-year percentage decrease occurred in Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem, Massachusetts-New Hampshire (-1.1 percent).
| Metropolitan division | Percent change(p) | February 2016 employment | February 2017 employment(p) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Camden, NJ |
3.7 | 516,300 | 535,200 |
|
Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX |
3.7 | 2,453,500 | 2,545,000 |
|
Philadelphia, PA |
3.0 | 919,200 | 946,800 |
|
Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA |
3.0 | 1,611,600 | 1,659,600 |
|
Fort Worth-Arlington, TX |
2.8 | 994,400 | 1,022,200 |
|
Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL |
2.5 | 815,000 | 835,600 |
|
Tacoma-Lakewood, WA |
2.5 | 299,100 | 306,600 |
|
San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA |
2.4 | 1,075,200 | 1,101,200 |
|
Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY |
2.4 | 1,282,900 | 1,313,500 |
|
Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, MD |
2.2 | 583,600 | 596,500 |
|
West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL |
2.2 | 606,400 | 619,600 |
|
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA |
2.1 | 1,776,300 | 1,813,200 |
|
Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley, CA |
2.0 | 1,115,900 | 1,138,100 |
|
Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI |
2.0 | 1,198,100 | 1,222,000 |
|
San Rafael, CA |
1.9 | 113,000 | 115,200 |
|
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV |
1.9 | 2,590,500 | 2,640,000 |
|
Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL |
1.9 | 1,149,800 | 1,172,100 |
|
Gary, IN |
1.9 | 270,600 | 275,700 |
|
Taunton-Middleborough-Norton, MA |
1.9 | 57,200 | 58,300 |
|
Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI |
1.9 | 734,900 | 748,800 |
|
Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, MA-NH |
1.8 | 150,300 | 153,000 |
|
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA |
1.6 | 4,353,900 | 4,424,700 |
|
New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ |
1.6 | 6,727,000 | 6,837,600 |
|
Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County, NJ |
1.6 | 1,024,200 | 1,040,700 |
|
Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA |
1.5 | 79,100 | 80,300 |
|
Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town, MA-NH |
1.4 | 64,100 | 65,000 |
|
Nashua, NH-MA |
1.3 | 125,000 | 126,600 |
|
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA |
1.1 | 1,566,600 | 1,583,600 |
|
Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, IL |
1.1 | 3,634,400 | 3,672,900 |
|
Peabody-Salem-Beverly, MA |
0.6 | 95,400 | 96,000 |
|
Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ |
0.6 | 351,600 | 353,600 |
|
Framingham, MA |
0.5 | 170,800 | 171,700 |
|
Newark, NJ-PA |
0.4 | 1,175,900 | 1,180,700 |
|
Elgin, IL |
0.1 | 247,200 | 247,500 |
|
Dutchess County-Putnam County, NY |
-0.1 | 141,800 | 141,600 |
|
Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead, MA |
-0.2 | 44,400 | 44,300 |
|
Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI |
-0.9 | 399,600 | 396,200 |
|
Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem, MA-NH |
-1.1 | 81,600 | 80,700 |
| Footnotes: (p) = preliminary. |
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From February 2016 to February 2017, other metropolitan divisions with a percentage increase in employment greater than or equal to 2.5 percent were Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Washington (3.0 percent each); Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (2.8 percent); and Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, Florida and Tacoma-Lakewood, Washington (2.5 percent each).
Other areas with a percentage decrease in employment from February 2016 to February 2017 were Lake County-Kenosha County, Illinois-Wisconsin (−0.9 percent), Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead, Massachusetts (−0.2 percent), and Dutchess County-Putnam County, New York (−0.1 percent).
These data are from the Current Employment Statistics (State and Metro Area) program and are not seasonally adjusted. Data for the most recent month are preliminary and subject to revision. To learn more, see "Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — February 2017" (HTML) (PDF).
SUGGESTED CITATION
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Camden and Dallas had highest percent increases in employment for year ended February 2017 on the Internet at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/camden-and-dallas-had-highest-percent-increases-in-employment-for-year-ended-february-2017.htm (visited February 24, 2020).
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