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Title	BLS Subject	Product Type	Date Published
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Morgantown, WV: Nonfarm employment and labor force data	Employment, Unemployment	Table	Jun 2025
Mid-Atlantic - Labor Force Statistics	Employment, Unemployment	Table	Jun 2025
Morgantown Area Economic Summary (PDF)	Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment	Economic Summary	Jun 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	Nov 2024	Dec 2024	Jan 2025	Feb 2025	Mar 2025	Apr 2025
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)		(2)71.4	(2)70.7	69.5	70.5	70.4	(p)71.5
Employment(1)		(2)69.3	(2)68.6	66.9	68.1	68.0	(p)69.6
Unemployment(1)		(2)2.1	(2)2.1	2.5	2.4	2.3	(p)2.0
Unemployment Rate(3)		(2)2.9	(2)3.0	3.7	3.4	3.3	(p)2.7
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(4)		74.5	74.0	70.9	72.9	72.9	(p)73.5
12-month % change		2.3	1.8	-0.6	1.1	0.6	(p)1.0
Manufacturing(4)		2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	(p)2.0
12-month % change		-4.8	-9.1	-4.8	-4.8	0.0	(p)0.0
Professional and Business Services(4)		8.7	8.5	8.4	8.5	8.4	(p)8.6
12-month % change		1.2	-1.2	1.2	2.4	0.0	(p)2.4
Education and Health Services(4)		19.5	19.5	19.2	19.3	19.3	(p)19.4
12-month % change		6.0	5.4	3.2	2.7	2.1	(p)2.1
Leisure and Hospitality(4)		7.3	7.2	7.0	7.1	7.2	(p)7.3
12-month % change		2.8	4.3	2.9	0.0	2.9	(p)1.4
Government(4)		17.9	17.7	16.0	17.7	17.7	(p)17.8
12-month % change		0.6	-1.7	-7.0	1.1	-1.1	(p)0.6
Footnotes (1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. (2) Data were subject to revision on April 18, 2025. (3) In percent, not seasonally adjusted. (4) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data. (p) Preliminary