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Job growth & unemployment
Apr 18, 2022
Austin ranks as the best performing major job market since the beginning of the pandemic and the fourth best over the last 12 months.
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Job growth & unemployment
Mar 28, 2022
Austin ranks as the best performing major job market since the beginning of the pandemic and the third best over the last 12 months.
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Job growth & unemployment
Mar 14, 2022
Austin's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is 3.2% in January, unchanged from December.
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Austin Migration Insights
Feb 8, 2022
The Austin metro area gains about 33,700 people annually from domestic migration, 6,660 from international migration, and 15,980 from natural increase.
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Job growth & unemployment
Jan 25, 2022
Austin's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is 3.3% in December, improved from 3.5% in November.
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Gross domestic product by metro & county
Jan 10, 2022
Austin’s economy grew by 1.2% in 2020. Only one other major metro, San Jose, also saw positive growth.
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Job growth & unemployment
Dec 20, 2021
Austin has made up all of 2020’s pandemic-related job losses and currently has 47,000 more jobs than it had in February 2020.
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Job growth & unemployment
Nov 22, 2021
Austin has made up all of 2020’s pandemic-related job losses and currently has nearly 32,500 more jobs than it had in February 2020.
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Job growth & unemployment
Oct 26, 2021
Austin has made up all of 2020’s pandemic-related job losses and currently has nearly 17,000 more jobs than it had in February 2020.
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Highlights from Census 2020
Oct 6, 2021
Austin metro grew by 33.0% (adding 567,082 people) from 2010 to 2020, ranking as the fastest growing large metro.
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Job growth & unemployment
Sep 21, 2021
Adding jobs in 15 of the last 16 months, Austin has made up all of spring 2020’s pandemic-related job losses.
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Job growth & unemployment
Aug 24, 2021
Adding jobs in 14 of the 15 months, Austin has regained all but 300 of last spring's pandemic-related job losses.