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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 Oct 2020
New England Consumer Price Index Card Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – New England Consumer price indexes Table Oct 2020
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 for the Boston Metropolitan Area: 2015-16 Consumer spending News Release Jan 2018
Women’s Earnings in Massachusetts — 2017 Pay News Release Oct 2018
Consumer Price Index, Boston-Cambridge-Newton — July 2020 Consumer price indexes News Release Aug 2020
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 — June 2020 Benefits, Pay News Release Aug 2020

Portsmouth, NH-ME Economy at a Glance:

Portsmouth, NH-ME
Data Series Back
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2020

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 69.9 71.4 73.4 75.5 (p)75.3  

Employment(1)

 59.4 62.1 67.6 69.7 (p)70.9  

Unemployment(1)

 10.4 9.3 5.9 5.8 (p)4.5  

Unemployment Rate(2)

 14.9 13.0 8.0 7.7 (p)5.9  

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 76.3 79.3 84.0 85.3 87.3 (p)85.9

12-month % change

 -17.2 -15.7 -13.1 -12.7 -10.1 (p)-9.8

Mining, Logging, and Construction(3)

 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.8 (p)2.8

12-month % change

 -7.4 -3.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 (p)0.0

Manufacturing(3)

 7.9 7.9 7.9 7.8 8.0 (p)8.1

12-month % change

 -9.2 -9.2 -10.2 -10.3 -8.0 (p)-6.9

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 13.7 13.8 15.2 15.6 15.7 (p)15.4

12-month % change

 -18.5 -18.3 -12.1 -10.3 -8.7 (p)-8.3

Information(3)

 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.0 2.1 (p)2.0

12-month % change

 -4.5 -4.5 -4.5 -9.1 -4.5 (p)-4.8

Financial Activities(3)

 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.6 5.6 (p)5.5

12-month % change

 -1.9 -1.9 -1.8 1.8 1.8 (p)1.9

Professional and Business Services(3)

 12.4 12.7 12.9 12.9 13.1 (p)12.8

12-month % change

 -8.8 -6.6 -8.5 -10.4 -9.0 (p)-10.5

Education and Health Services(3)

 12.1 12.5 12.9 13.1 12.8 (p)13.0

12-month % change

 -15.4 -13.2 -8.5 -7.7 -9.2 (p)-8.5

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 3.5 5.1 7.4 8.8 9.3 (p)8.2

12-month % change

 -68.5 -58.9 -47.9 -43.2 -39.2 (p)-36.4

Other Services(3)

 2.1 2.4 2.6 2.7 2.8 (p)2.8

12-month % change

 -27.6 -17.2 -10.3 -10.0 -6.7 (p)-6.7

Government(3)

 14.8 14.9 14.9 14.0 15.1 (p)15.3

12-month % change

 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.6 (p)2.0

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

CPI-U, All items(4)

   282.620   283.175   283.391

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

     0.6   0.8   0.6

CPI-W, All items(5)

   280.697   281.598   281.670

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

     0.4   0.9   0.6

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