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Wheeling

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Wheeling, WV-OH, Area Economic Summary (PDF)
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
Economic Summary Mar 2025
Mid-Atlantic - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Apr 2025
County Employment and Wages in Ohio — First Quarter 2024 Employment, Pay News Release Oct 2024
West Virginia Job Openings and Labor Turnover — June 2024 Employment, Unemployment News Release Aug 2024
Wheeling, WV-OH Economy at a Glance:
Wheeling, WV-OH
Data Series Back
Data
Oct
2024
Nov
2024
Dec
2024
Jan
2025
Feb
2025
Mar
2025

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

(2)59.6 (2)59.3 (2)59.2 59.3 59.3 (p)59.7

Employment(1)

(2)57.2 (2)56.9 (2)56.6 55.9 56.1 (p)56.6

Unemployment(1)

(2)2.4 (2)2.5 (2)2.6 3.4 3.2 (p)3.1

Unemployment Rate(3)

(2)4.0 (2)4.1 (2)4.3 5.7 5.5 (p)5.2

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(4)

61.8 62.2 62.1 60.3 60.7 (p)61.1

12-month % change

0.7 0.8 1.0 1.0 1.3 (p)1.2

Manufacturing(4)

3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 (p)3.0

12-month % change

0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 (p)0.0

Education and Health Services(4)

11.6 11.7 11.6 11.5 11.4 (p)11.5

12-month % change

3.6 4.5 2.7 2.7 1.8 (p)0.9

Government(4)

10.1 10.2 10.2 9.7 10.0 (p)10.2

12-month % change

4.1 3.0 3.0 2.1 3.1 (p)3.0

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