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Regional Job Market Health

Scale55-100

Higher values are better.

About This Ranking

Goal

Highlight places with deeper, better-paid, recently growing regional job markets, low resident unemployment, and resilience across employer industries.

Sources

Data behind the rating

5 sources

2025 Preliminary BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

Preliminary 2025 annual averages released June 2, 2026; final refresh scheduled August 28, 2026
Data
Direct annual-average workplace employment, covered-establishment, and nominal-pay totals for the selected metro, micro, or non-CBSA county market, with final 2024 totals as the same-geography growth baseline.
What it tells us
Shows regional workplace-market scale, recent growth, and average pay; it does not identify current openings, occupation fit, benefits, cost-of-living-adjusted pay, or commute time.
Data
The July 2023-definition positive assignment of current counties and county-equivalents to direct QCEW metropolitan or micropolitan totals.
What it tells us
Selects one commuting-integrated CBSA market where BLS lists an assignment; a current county with no listed assignment uses its own direct QCEW total.
Data
Full-resolution current county and county-equivalent polygons used for unique strict containment of the stored place representative point.
What it tells us
Identifies the current containing county without a nearest-county, state, or legacy-topology fallback.

2020–2024 U.S. Census ACS 5-Year — DP03 Unemployment

2020–2024 estimates; released January 29, 2026
Data
Direct place-level unemployment percentage among residents in the civilian labor force, its published 90% margin of error, and the estimated civilian-labor-force universe.
What it tells us
Supports a resident unemployment comparison over the five-year survey period; it is not a current monthly rate or a measure of jobs located in the place.

2025 Preliminary BLS QCEW Employer Supersectors

Preliminary 2025 annual averages released June 2, 2026; final refresh scheduled August 28, 2026
Data
Disclosed annual-average covered employment in 11 broad employer sectors, summed across federal, state, local, and private ownership and from counties into the exact selected regional market.
What it tells us
Measures the breadth of covered jobs across employer industries in the regional market. Suppressed and unclassified employment remains explicit uncertainty rather than being assigned to a sector.

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