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St. Louis

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
St. Louis Area Economic Summary (PDF)
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
Economic Summary Mar 2024
Mountain-Plains - Consumer Prices Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Mountain-Plains - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Mar 2024
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – Mountain Plains Consumer price indexes Table Mar 2024
Consumer Expenditures for the U.S., regions, and selected metropolitan areas Consumer spending Table Oct 2023
Consumer Price Index, St. Louis area – February 2024 Consumer price indexes News Release Mar 2024
Occupational Employment and Wages in St. Louis — May 2022 Employment, Pay News Release Sep 2023
Annual Average Percent Changes U.S., St. Louis, and Denver-Aurora-Lakewood Consumer price indexes Table Jan 2024
St. Louis, MO-IL, Metropolitan Area Data Tables Employment, Pay, Unemployment Table Mar 2024
Mountain-Plains CPI Blue Card (PDF) Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Dec 2017
Consumer Expenditures in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area — 2021–22 Consumer spending News Release Sep 2023
St. Louis, MO-IL Economy at a Glance:
St. Louis, MO-IL
Data Series Back
Data
Sept
2023
Oct
2023
Nov
2023
Dec
2023
Jan
2024
Feb
2024

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

1,487.3 1,495.9 1,485.6 (p)1,474.0 (p)1,470.5  

Employment(1)

1,441.3 1,444.8 1,441.3 (p)1,429.4 (p)1,414.2  

Unemployment(1)

46.0 51.1 44.3 (p)44.6 (p)56.3  

Unemployment Rate(2)

3.1 3.4 3.0 (p)3.0 (p)3.8  

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

1,432.2 1,442.9 1,450.3 1,445.8 1,416.1 (p)1,427.2

12-month % change

1.4 1.5 1.8 1.9 1.0 (p)1.1

Mining, Logging, and Construction(3)

77.7 78.1 77.0 76.4 71.7 (p)74.2

12-month % change

2.4 2.8 2.4 3.0 -1.2 (p)2.6

Manufacturing(3)

117.5 113.6 117.0 117.5 115.6 (p)116.5

12-month % change

0.0 -3.3 -0.6 -0.3 0.2 (p)-1.4

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

261.9 264.8 272.6 276.4 265.9 (p)263.6

12-month % change

0.6 0.8 1.9 2.4 1.0 (p)1.2

Information(3)

29.2 29.1 28.9 29.4 29.5 (p)29.3

12-month % change

0.3 0.0 -1.0 0.7 1.0 (p)0.3

Financial Activities(3)

95.9 96.9 96.5 96.7 96.6 (p)95.8

12-month % change

-0.2 0.1 0.0 0.6 0.6 (p)-0.2

Professional and Business Services(3)

220.4 222.9 219.0 214.6 212.5 (p)216.2

12-month % change

-0.6 0.0 -1.4 -2.5 -2.0 (p)-1.3

Education and Health Services(3)

271.2 277.6 279.0 275.5 274.7 (p)280.1

12-month % change

3.2 4.0 3.9 4.3 3.2 (p)3.3

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

149.8 149.9 149.8 148.5 142.3 (p)142.2

12-month % change

4.4 5.3 6.6 5.9 2.2 (p)1.6

Other Services(3)

52.7 53.0 53.1 53.1 53.0 (p)52.5

12-month % change

0.6 0.6 1.3 1.0 1.3 (p)1.0

Government(3)

155.9 157.0 157.4 157.7 154.3 (p)156.8

12-month % change

1.8 1.9 1.7 1.9 2.3 (p)2.3

Consumer Price Index: St. Louis, MO-IL

CPI-U, All items(4)

  277.471   276.991   281.311

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

    3.1   2.8   3.6

CPI-W, All items(5)

  275.942   275.066   279.655

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

    3.0   3.1   4.0

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