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Morgantown

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Morgantown, WV: Nonfarm employment and labor force data Employment, Unemployment Table Feb 2025
Mid-Atlantic - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Feb 2025
Morgantown Area Economic Summary (PDF)
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
Economic Summary Feb 2025
West Virginia Job Openings and Labor Turnover — June 2024 Employment, Unemployment News Release Aug 2024
Morgantown, WV Economy at a Glance:
Morgantown, WV
Data Series Back
Data
July
2024
Aug
2024
Sept
2024
Oct
2024
Nov
2024
Dec
2024

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

70.3 69.9 71.4 71.5 71.0 (p)70.3

Employment(1)

67.5 67.3 69.1 69.5 68.9 (p)68.2

Unemployment(1)

2.7 2.5 2.3 2.1 2.1 (p)2.1

Unemployment Rate(2)

3.9 3.6 3.2 2.9 2.9 (p)2.9

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

70.5 71.1 72.8 73.9 74.7 (p)74.2

12-month % change

0.9 0.1 0.3 1.0 1.5 (p)1.1

Manufacturing(3)

1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 (p)1.8

12-month % change

-14.3 -10.0 -10.0 -10.0 -10.0 (p)-10.0

Professional and Business Services(3)

8.7 8.7 8.6 8.7 8.7 (p)8.5

12-month % change

-1.1 -1.1 -2.3 0.0 0.0 (p)-1.2

Education and Health Services(3)

18.8 18.8 18.9 19.1 19.2 (p)19.2

12-month % change

6.2 5.0 5.6 5.5 5.5 (p)4.9

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

7.2 7.3 7.2 7.2 7.1 (p)7.1

12-month % change

2.9 1.4 -1.4 -1.4 -2.7 (p)-1.4

Government(3)

15.5 15.6 17.1 17.7 18.1 (p)17.8

12-month % change

-3.1 -6.6 -4.5 -3.3 -2.2 (p)-2.7

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