Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH: Nonfarm employment and labor force data : Mid–Atlantic Information Office : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH: Nonfarm employment and labor force data

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(not seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector	Huntington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.-Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Avg
Total Nonfarm
2020	134.0	133.6	134.0	117.1	120.0	125.5	125.2	127.1	128.8	130.0	129.4	130.3	127.9
2021	127.5	127.4	129.2	129.8	131.4	129.8	128.2	129.5	(p)129.8
Manufacturing
2020	10.8	10.8	10.7	10.0	10.1	10.2	10.3	10.3	10.4	10.5	10.5	10.6	10.4
2021	10.6	10.6	10.5	10.6	10.7	10.8	10.8	10.8	(p)10.7
Professional & Business Services
2020	12.7	13.0	13.0	12.2	12.1	12.4	12.3	12.7	12.7	12.7	12.7	12.8	12.6
2021	12.4	12.4	12.8	12.8	13.2	13.0	13.2	13.4	(p)13.1
Educational & Health Services
2020	29.1	29.2	29.2	26.7	27.1	27.7	28.0	28.0	27.9	27.9	27.7	28.1	28.1
2021	28.3	28.1	28.3	28.4	28.5	28.0	28.0	28.3	(p)28.3
Leisure & Hospitality
2020	14.2	14.4	14.2	8.2	9.7	11.9	12.6	12.7	12.8	12.6	12.7	13.0	12.4
2021	12.6	12.5	12.9	12.8	13.2	13.3	13.0	13.5	(p)13.2
Government
2020	24.0	23.9	24.1	22.5	21.9	22.0	20.4	21.4	22.6	22.7	22.7	22.9	22.6
2021	22.6	23.1	23.4	23.4	23.6	21.6	20.6	21.5	(p)22.3
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
The Huntington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.-Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes Boyd and Greenup Counties in Kentucky, Lawrence County in Ohio, and Cabell and Wayne Counties in West Virginia.

Labor Force data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program
(not seasonally adjusted data)
	Huntington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.-Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Avg
Labor Force
2020	148,568	148,989	147,904	145,231	148,235	146,376	146,095	146,600	146,152	145,532	145,107	146,741	146,795
2021	145,309	145,862	145,892	147,649	146,635	147,233	146,362	(p)146,028
Employment
2020	140,162	140,603	139,132	121,040	128,858	132,499	132,779	134,739	135,999	137,244	136,541	137,134	134,728
2021	135,877	136,594	137,588	140,013	139,580	138,957	138,936	(p)139,496
Unemployment
2020	8,406	8,386	8,772	24,191	19,377	13,877	13,316	11,861	10,153	8,288	8,566	9,607	12,067
2021	9,432	9,268	8,304	7,636	7,055	8,276	7,426	(p)6,532
Unemployment Rate
2020	5.7	5.6	5.9	16.7	13.1	9.5	9.1	8.1	6.9	5.7	5.9	6.5	8.2
2021	6.5	6.4	5.7	5.2	4.8	5.6	5.1	(p)4.5
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
The Huntington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.-Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes Boyd and Greenup Counties in Kentucky, Lawrence County in Ohio, and Cabell and Wayne Counties in West Virginia.