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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 May 2023
Mountain-Plains - Consumer Prices Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Mountain-Plains - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Jun 2023
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – Mountain Plains Consumer price indexes Table Jun 2023
Consumer Expenditures for the U.S., regions, and selected metropolitan areas Consumer spending Table Oct 2022
Consumer Price Index, St. Louis area – April 2023 Consumer price indexes News Release May 2023
Occupational Employment and Wages in St. Louis — May 2021 Employment, Pay News Release Jul 2022
Annual averages U.S., Denver, Kansas City, and St. Louis Consumer price indexes Table Jan 2018
St. Louis, MO-IL, Metropolitan Area Data Tables Employment, Pay, Unemployment Table May 2023
Mountain-Plains CPI Blue Card (PDF) Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Dec 2017
Consumer Expenditures in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area — 2020-21 Consumer spending News Release Oct 2022
St. Louis, MO-IL Economy at a Glance:
St. Louis, MO-IL
Data Series Back
Data
Nov
2022
Dec
2022
Jan
2023
Feb
2023
Mar
2023
Apr
2023

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

(2)1,460.4 (2)1,456.7 1,447.9 1,461.8 1,473.3 (p)1,480.8

Employment(1)

(2)1,424.1 (2)1,421.7 1,403.7 1,420.4 1,431.9 (p)1,441.1

Unemployment(1)

(2)36.4 (2)34.9 44.1 41.5 41.4 (p)39.7

Unemployment Rate(3)

(2)2.5 (2)2.4 3.0 2.8 2.8 (p)2.7

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(4)

1,431.7 1,423.6 1,395.8 1,413.5 1,416.4 (p)1,426.6

12-month % change

2.3 1.7 2.0 2.3 2.0 (p)1.4

Mining, Logging, and Construction(4)

74.4 71.1 66.7 67.8 67.9 (p)69.5

12-month % change

3.9 -1.4 -3.1 -1.2 -4.1 (p)-4.8

Manufacturing(4)

118.0 118.3 115.7 119.2 118.9 (p)118.1

12-month % change

2.7 5.0 3.6 3.4 3.2 (p)2.2

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(4)

267.8 272.5 263.7 261.3 260.9 (p)262.0

12-month % change

0.0 0.3 1.3 0.3 0.0 (p)0.4

Information(4)

28.4 28.3 28.5 28.4 28.2 (p)28.3

12-month % change

4.4 3.3 4.0 2.5 0.4 (p)-0.4

Financial Activities(4)

97.7 97.9 97.1 97.6 96.6 (p)96.0

12-month % change

2.5 2.2 1.3 1.8 0.7 (p)-0.8

Professional and Business Services(4)

225.1 220.7 214.7 217.9 220.0 (p)220.0

12-month % change

3.3 1.8 0.4 1.3 1.4 (p)0.0

Education and Health Services(4)

267.7 264.2 263.5 270.8 267.5 (p)272.0

12-month % change

1.4 1.3 2.5 3.2 2.8 (p)2.9

Leisure and Hospitality(4)

143.8 141.7 138.8 141.2 146.6 (p)148.8

12-month % change

7.4 4.8 6.6 7.8 8.8 (p)6.5

Other Services(4)

54.5 54.2 55.0 55.3 54.8 (p)55.4

12-month % change

3.2 2.1 5.0 5.1 3.4 (p)3.2

Government(4)

154.3 154.7 152.1 154.0 155.0 (p)156.5

12-month % change

0.1 0.4 1.1 1.1 1.6 (p)1.6

Consumer Price Index: St. Louis, MO-IL

CPI-U, All items(5)

  269.440   271.581   273.234

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

    6.2   5.9   4.2

CPI-W, All items(6)

  266.684   268.876   271.237

CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(6)

    5.7   4.9   3.4

Footnotes
(1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted.
(2) Data were subject to revision on April 21, 2023.
(3) In percent, not seasonally adjusted.
(4) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data.
(5) All Urban Consumers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted.
(6) Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted.
(p) Preliminary