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Parkersburg

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Parkersburg Area Economic Summary (PDF)
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
Economic Summary Feb 2024
Mid-Atlantic - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Mar 2024
West Virginia Job Openings and Labor Turnover — June 2023 Employment, Unemployment News Release Aug 2023
Parkersburg-Vienna, WV Economy at a Glance:
Parkersburg-Vienna, WV
Data Series Back
Data
Aug
2023
Sept
2023
Oct
2023
Nov
2023
Dec
2023
Jan
2024

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

39.5 39.1 39.0 38.5 (p)38.5 (p)38.8

Employment(1)

37.8 37.6 37.5 37.0 (p)36.9 (p)36.7

Unemployment(1)

1.8 1.5 1.5 1.5 (p)1.7 (p)2.1

Unemployment Rate(2)

4.4 3.9 3.9 3.8 (p)4.4 (p)5.4

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

38.6 38.9 39.3 39.4 39.4 (p)38.6

12-month % change

1.3 1.6 3.1 1.8 3.1 (p)1.8

Manufacturing(3)

2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 (p)2.9

12-month % change

0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 (p)0.0

Education and Health Services(3)

7.6 7.6 7.6 7.7 7.7 (p)7.6

12-month % change

4.1 4.1 5.6 5.5 5.5 (p)5.6

Government(3)

7.1 7.5 7.6 7.6 7.5 (p)7.6

12-month % change

-2.7 0.0 2.7 -2.6 2.7 (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