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Bureau of Labor Statistics > Geographic Information > New England > New Hampshire, Maine > Portsmouth

Portsmouth

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
New England - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Jan 2022
New England Consumer Price Index Card Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – New England Consumer price indexes Table Jan 2022
Average Energy Prices In Boston-Cambridge-Newton – December 2018 Average energy prices News Release Jan 2019
Consumer Price Index, Boston-Brockton-Nashua– 2012 Annual Average Consumer price indexes News Release Apr 2013
Consumer Expenditures in the Boston Metropolitan Area – 2019-20 Consumer spending News Release Nov 2021
Women’s Earnings in Massachusetts — 2019 Pay News Release Mar 2021
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX, BOSTON-CAMBRIDGE-NEWTON– NOVEMBER 2021 Consumer price indexes News Release Dec 2021
Consumer Price Index Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (1982-84 = 100) (PDF) Consumer price indexes Table Apr 2020
Consumer Price Index US City Average (1982-84 = 100) (PDF) Consumer price indexes Table Apr 2020
Changing Compensation Costs in the Boston Metropolitan Area — September 2021 Benefits, Pay News Release Nov 2021

Portsmouth, NH-ME Economy at a Glance:

Portsmouth, NH-ME
Data Series Back
Data		 July
2021		 Aug
2021		 Sept
2021		 Oct
2021		 Nov
2021		 Dec
2021

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 79.0 78.8 76.4 75.6 (p)75.9  

Employment(1)

 76.6 76.8 74.7 74.0 (p)74.3  

Unemployment(1)

 2.4 2.0 1.7 1.6 (p)1.6  

Unemployment Rate(2)

 3.1 2.6 2.3 2.1 (p)2.1  

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 95.0 95.1 93.4 93.7 93.4 (p)94.4

12-month % change

 6.4 3.9 2.6 4.8 5.7 (p)6.8

Mining, Logging, and Construction(3)

 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.9 (p)3.0

12-month % change

 7.1 3.4 0.0 -3.4 3.6 (p)7.1

Manufacturing(3)

 9.1 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.2 (p)9.2

12-month % change

 3.4 0.0 1.1 2.2 1.1 (p)0.0

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 16.5 16.2 16.0 16.2 16.2 (p)16.6

12-month % change

 6.5 3.8 2.6 4.5 2.5 (p)2.5

Information(3)

 2.1 2.1 2.0 2.0 2.0 (p)2.0

12-month % change

 5.0 0.0 -4.8 0.0 0.0 (p)0.0

Financial Activities(3)

 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.5 (p)5.6

12-month % change

 3.7 3.7 1.8 1.9 1.9 (p)3.7

Professional and Business Services(3)

 14.7 14.7 14.2 14.4 14.8 (p)14.8

12-month % change

 7.3 6.5 4.4 5.1 10.4 (p)8.0

Education and Health Services(3)

 13.7 13.9 13.6 13.8 13.9 (p)13.9

12-month % change

 2.2 3.0 -1.4 0.0 -0.7 (p)0.0

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 14.5 14.3 12.6 12.6 11.7 (p)12.1

12-month % change

 28.3 21.2 14.5 27.3 33.0 (p)45.8

Other Services(3)

 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7 (p)2.7

12-month % change

 7.7 7.7 7.7 8.0 8.0 (p)8.0

Government(3)

 13.0 13.4 14.5 14.4 14.5 (p)14.5

12-month % change

 -5.8 -8.8 -2.0 -1.4 -0.7 (p)0.7

Consumer Price Index: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

CPI-U, All items(4)

 295.211   294.784   299.723  

CPI-U, All items, 12-month % change(4)

   4.3   4.0   5.3  

CPI-W, All items(5)

 294.075   294.003   300.030  

CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(5)

   4.4   4.4   6.0  

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.
(4) All Urban Consumers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted.
(5) Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted.
(p) Preliminary