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Geographic Information > Western > Alaska > Anchorage

Anchorage

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Western Consumer Price Index Card Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Western - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Jan 2020
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West Consumer price indexes Table Jan 2020
Occupational Employment and Wages in Anchorage — May 2018 Employment, Pay News Release Jun 2019
CPI Historical Table - Anchorage, AK Consumer price indexes Table Feb 2019
CPI Historical Table - Anchorage, AK (old base) Consumer price indexes Table Feb 2019
Consumer Price Index, Alaska area – December 2019 Consumer price indexes News Release Jan 2020
Anchorage Area Economic Summary
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
 Economic Summary Jan 2020
Alaska Labor Market Outlook, September 29, 2016, Anchorage, AK N/A Factsheet Sep 2016
Consumer Expenditures for the Anchorage Metropolitan Area: 2017–18 Consumer spending News Release Nov 2019
2018 CPI Geographic Revision Fact Sheet Consumer price indexes Factsheet Mar 2018
Consumer Price Index Data Tables Consumer price indexes Table Feb 2019

Anchorage, AK Economy at a Glance:

Anchorage, AK
Data Series Back
Data		 July
2019		 Aug
2019		 Sept
2019		 Oct
2019		 Nov
2019		 Dec
2019

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 197.5 192.9 192.7 193.2 (p)195.5  

Employment(1)

 187.3 183.4 182.6 183.4 (p)185.3  

Unemployment(1)

 10.1 9.6 10.2 9.7 (p)10.2  

Unemployment Rate(2)

 5.1 5.0 5.3 5.0 (p)5.2  

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 181.7 181.4 179.6 175.4 174.1 (p)173.5

12-month % change

 1.7 1.2 0.3 -0.2 0.4 (p)0.3

Mining and Logging(3)

 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.8 (p)2.8

12-month % change

 7.4 11.1 7.4 7.4 7.7 (p)0.0

Construction(3)

 12.2 12.8 12.4 11.6 10.2 (p)10.0

12-month % change

 8.9 12.3 11.7 6.4 5.2 (p)7.5

Manufacturing(3)

 2.9 2.6 2.1 1.8 1.7 (p)1.6

12-month % change

 -3.3 -10.3 -12.5 -14.3 -10.5 (p)-15.8

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 39.0 39.0 38.1 37.4 37.7 (p)38.0

12-month % change

 0.8 0.3 -1.0 1.1 2.2 (p)2.7

Information(3)

 4.0 4.0 3.9 3.8 3.9 (p)4.0

12-month % change

 0.0 2.6 0.0 -5.0 -2.5 (p)0.0

Financial Activities(3)

 8.2 8.2 7.9 7.9 7.8 (p)7.9

12-month % change

 -1.2 -1.2 -1.3 -1.3 -1.3 (p)0.0

Professional and Business Services(3)

 20.9 20.5 19.9 19.2 19.0 (p)18.6

12-month % change

 7.7 4.6 3.1 0.5 5.0 (p)2.2

Education and Health Services(3)

 31.0 31.0 31.0 31.4 31.4 (p)31.2

12-month % change

 -0.6 -0.6 -1.0 -0.3 -1.6 (p)-1.6

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 22.6 22.4 20.9 18.6 18.6 (p)18.6

12-month % change

 1.8 -0.4 -1.9 -4.6 -3.1 (p)-3.6

Other Services(3)

 6.6 6.6 6.4 6.4 6.4 (p)6.3

12-month % change

 -1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 (p)0.0

Government(3)

 31.4 31.3 34.1 34.4 34.6 (p)34.5

12-month % change

 0.6 0.3 0.0 -0.6 -0.6 (p)0.0

Consumer Price Index: Urban Alaska

CPI-U, All items(4)

   230.406   227.552   226.527

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

     0.7   -0.3   0.0

CPI-W, All items(5)

   226.667   225.143   224.251

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

     0.9   -0.2   0.1

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