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Blacksburg

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Blacksburg Area Economic Summary
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
 Economic Summary Oct 2019
Mid-Atlantic - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Oct 2019
Occupational Employment and Wages for Teachers in Virginia’s Metropolitan Areas – May 2016 Employment, Pay News Release Sep 2017

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA Economy at a Glance:

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA
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2019

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 90.9 90.7 89.2 89.8 (p)91.2  

Employment(1)

 88.6 87.9 86.3 86.9 (p)88.5  

Unemployment(1)

 2.3 2.8 2.9 2.9 (p)2.7  

Unemployment Rate(2)

 2.5 3.1 3.3 3.2 (p)2.9  

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 78.6 77.5 75.5 75.0 77.3 (p)78.4

12-month % change

 -1.5 -0.9 0.4 0.0 0.7 (p)-0.3

Government(3)

 25.9 25.2 23.1 22.4 24.3 (p)24.9

12-month % change

 -0.4 0.4 0.4 -0.9 0.0 (p)-0.4

Footnotes
(1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted.
(2) In percent, not seasonally adjusted.
(3) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data.
(p) Preliminary