| Subject: | Texas communities unemployment rates at or above 10 percent |
|---|---|
| Date: | Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:41:49 -0600 |
| From: | Givens, Lisa J |
| To: | <wgselby@statesman.com> |
Gardner,
Cities in
Texas above 10 percent
unemployment rate (non-seasonally adjusted)
|
2010 |
Dec |
Paris City |
Not Adj |
10.2 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
San Benito City |
Not Adj |
10.4 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Pasadena City |
Not Adj |
10.5 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Lancaster |
Not Adj |
10.6 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Pharr City |
Not Adj |
10.9 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Socorro |
Not Adj |
11.2 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Brownsville City |
Not Adj |
12.3 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Baytown City |
Not Adj |
12.6 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
San Juan |
Not Adj |
13.0 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Eagle Pass City |
Not Adj |
14.3 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Port Arthur City |
Not Adj |
16.8 |
Counties in
Texas at or above
10 percent unemployment rate (non-seasonally adjusted)
|
2010 |
Dec |
El Paso County |
Not Adj |
10.0 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Cass County |
Not Adj |
10.9 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Duval County |
Not Adj |
11.1 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Cameron County |
Not Adj |
11.8 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Dickens County |
Not Adj |
13.8 |
Metropolitan
Statistical Areas
(MSAs)
in
Texas at or above
10 percent unemployment rate (non-seasonally adjusted)
|
2010 |
Dec |
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
Metropolitan Statistical Area |
Not Adj |
12.1 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Brownsville-Harlingen, TX Metropolitan
Statistical Area |
Not Adj |
11.8 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX Metropolitan
Statistical Area |
Not Adj |
11.0 |
|
2010 |
Dec |
El Paso, TX Metropolitan Statistical
Area |
Not Adj |
10.0 |
Below
are the official definitions of
seasonal and non-seasonal data. It refers to fluctuations,
such as summer and
holiday hiring, agricultural hiring or school openings and
closings.
A
more thorough explanation is with the
Bureau of Labor Statistics fact sheet. http://www.bls.gov/cps/eetech_seas.pdf
Seasonally
Adjusted (SA) -
Seasonal
adjustment removes the effects of
events
that follow a more or less regular
pattern each year. These adjustments
make
it easier to observe the cyclical and
other non-seasonal movements in
a
data series.
Actual or
Not Seasonally Adjusted - This term is
used to describe data series
not
subject to the seasonal adjustment process.
In other words, the effects of
regular,
or seasonal, patterns have not been removed from these series.
...
Lisa
Givens
Director
of Communications
TWC
Communications Department
Austin,
Texas 78726
9:54 am, Feb. 16, 2011
The attached spreadsheet includes monthly and annual average unemployment rates (not seasonally adjusted) from 2007-2010. This will provide you with a look at Counties in Texas where there have been unemployment rates from 17 percent to as high as high as 20.4 percent (Starr County) in January 2010.
Since 2007, no Counties in Texas have had an average annual unemployment rate higher than 18.0 (not seasonally adjusted).
*Please keep in mind also that TWC’s Labor Market department is conducting annual benchmarking on all data, and these numbers are subject to change with the next labor market press release on March 10.