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Tacoma-Lakewood

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	Dec 2025
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West	Consumer price indexes	Table	Dec 2025
Occupational Employment and Wages in Tacoma-Lakewood — May 2017	Employment, Pay	News Release	May 2018
Unemployment in the Seattle Area by County - June 2016	Unemployment	News Release	Aug 2016
Average Energy Prices, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue – December 2024	Average energy prices	News Release	Jan 2025
Consumer Price Index, Seattle area — August 2025	Consumer price indexes	News Release	Sep 2025
CPI Historical Table - Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (PDF)	Consumer price indexes	Table	Jul 2019
CPI Historical Table - Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (old base) (PDF)	Consumer price indexes	Table	Jul 2019
CPI Pacific Cities and U.S. City Average — August 2025 (PDF)	Consumer price indexes	CPI Summary	Sep 2025
Changing Compensation Costs in the Seattle Metropolitan Area — June 2025	Benefits, Pay	News Release	Aug 2025
2018 CPI Geographic Revision Fact Sheet	Consumer price indexes	Factsheet	Mar 2018
Consumer Price Index Data Tables - Pacific Cities and U.S. City Average	Consumer price indexes	Factsheet	Mar 2020

Tacoma-Lakewood, WA Economy at a Glance:

Tacoma-Lakewood, WA
Data Series	Apr 2025	May 2025	June 2025	July 2025	Aug 2025	Sept 2025
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)	494.6	491.3	488.1	487.7	(p)488.8
Employment(1)	471.8	468.5	464.1	463.8	(p)464.3
Unemployment(1)	22.8	22.9	24.0	23.9	(p)24.4
Unemployment Rate(2)	4.6	4.7	4.9	4.9	(p)5.0
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(3)	346.6	349.5	347.9	347.7	346.5	(p)349.0
12-month % change	0.8	1.2	0.8	1.0	1.0	(p)0.8
Mining, Logging, and Construction(3)	23.6	24.7	25.5	25.7	26.0	(p)25.7
12-month % change	-8.2	-5.0	-3.0	-2.7	-2.3	(p)-2.3
Manufacturing(3)	16.4	16.5	16.7	16.7	16.7	(p)16.6
12-month % change	-2.4	-2.4	-1.2	0.0	0.0	(p)-1.2
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)	70.7	71.2	71.4	71.7	71.6	(p)71.4
12-month % change	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.6	(p)-0.3
Information(3)	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.1	(p)2.1
12-month % change	5.0	5.0	5.0	0.0	5.0	(p)0.0
Financial Activities(3)	14.6	14.6	14.6	14.7	14.7	(p)14.6
12-month % change	-1.4	-1.4	-2.0	-1.3	-0.7	(p)-0.7
Professional and Business Services(3)	40.9	40.8	39.8	39.7	39.4	(p)39.5
12-month % change	3.8	2.8	1.0	1.8	0.3	(p)-1.7
Education and Health Services(3)	67.8	68.4	66.2	66.2	66.9	(p)67.9
12-month % change	6.3	7.2	5.6	6.1	6.4	(p)4.6
Leisure and Hospitality(3)	35.6	36.2	36.6	36.6	36.3	(p)38.0
12-month % change	-1.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	-1.1	(p)3.3
Other Services(3)	13.4	13.6	13.6	13.8	13.9	(p)13.7
12-month % change	0.0	0.7	-0.7	0.7	2.2	(p)1.5
Government(3)	61.5	61.4	61.4	60.5	58.9	(p)59.5
12-month % change	0.7	0.2	0.0	-0.5	-0.3	(p)0.3
Consumer Price Index: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
CPI-U, All items(4)	359.400		364.344		365.211
CPI-U, All items, 12-month % change(4)	1.7		2.7		2.8
CPI-W, All items(5)	352.704		357.780		360.227
CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(5)	1.6		2.7		3.2
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