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Originally Posted by Charlestondata
BTW - different topic - There’s a subscribers-only article in The Greenville News today titled “Black Professionals in Greenville Discuss Impact of Lack of Diversity.” I’m not a subscriber, but the title indicates that perhaps Charleston’s not the only place that could be picked apart on this issue. Why 37,000 net Blacks to metro Greenville since 2000 versus minus 300 in metro Charleston? Cost of living? The opportunity to sell out for high real estate prices? Good questions.
Charleston's up to 438k in the labor force and 425k employed (up 30k and 29k respectively since January's data)
Greenville's up to 457k in the labor force and 445k employed (up 17k and 15k respectively since January)
Spartanburg's up to 177k in the labor force and 166k employed (up 7k and 6k respectively)
Columbia's up to 416k in the labor force and 402k employed (up 16k and 15k respectively)
hmmmm not counting Spartanburg Charleston might actually surpass Greenville sometime next year at this pace seeing as it's growing at nearly double the rate
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Originally Posted by Ledmonkey
July data on BLS is out
Charleston's up to 438k in the labor force and 425k employed (up 30k and 29k respectively since January's data)
Greenville's up to 457k in the labor force and 445k employed (up 17k and 15k respectively since January)
Spartanburg's up to 177k in the labor force and 166k employed (up 7k and 6k respectively)
Columbia's up to 416k in the labor force and 402k employed (up 16k and 15k respectively)
hmmmm not counting Spartanburg Charleston might actually surpass Greenville sometime next year at this pace seeing as it's growing at nearly double the rate
It seems like if you detach Spartanburg from Greenville, you also have to detach N. Charleston from Charleston. Most of the industry in the Charleston metro is in North Charleston.
Charleston's job market seems to be mostly education, hospital and hospitality / tourism.
It seems like if you detach Spartanburg from Greenville, you also have to detach N. Charleston from Charleston. Most of the industry in the Charleston metro is in North Charleston.
Charleston's job market seems to be mostly education, hospital and hospitality / tourism.
That information is based on metropolitan areas (MSAs), not municipalities. Greenville, Spartanburg, and Charleston are individual MSAs, which is why DEW breaks out their statistics separately. North Charleston is part of Charleston's MSA.
It doesn't make sense to link Anderson and Greenville's job market but separate Spartanburg.
It does when you understand the commuting criteria, regional economic geography, and the county-based nature of MSAs. But Spartanburg isn't completely separate as it is part of the larger combined statistical area (CSA).
Delineating the various types of metropolitan-based statistical regions isn't an exact science but it's very much defined statistically and uniformly.
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I assume Greenville's MSA doesn't include Greenwood but many people who work in Greenville live in the Greenville suburbs.
Greenwood is classified as a micropolitan statistical area, which are essentially mini-metro areas that, in most cases, consist of a sole county and have populations under 100-150K. Like Spartanburg, it is part of the larger Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson CSA which demonstrates its economic connectivity with the rest of the region but it also has enough industry within the county such that it doesn't meet the 25% commuter threshold that would make it part of the Greenville-Anderson MSA.
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