METRO ATLANTA LABOR STATISTICS

Employment data for metropolitan Atlanta. Total labor force, total employed, and percent unemployed for the Atlanta MSA and individual metropolitan counties.

Preliminary estimates for November, 2012.

	Atlanta MSA	Georgia	United States
Civilian Labor Force	2,747,553	4,805,897	154,953,000
Employed	2,526,899	4,405,995	143,549,000
Unemployed	220,654	399,902	11,404,000
Rate	8.0	8.3	7.4

METRO COUNTY LABOR FORCE ESTIMATES

			UNEMPLOYMENT
	Labor Force	Employment	Number	Rate
Barrow	35,086	32,496	2,590	7.4
Bartow	49,730	45,616	4,114	8.3
Butts	10,433	9,291	1,142	10.9
Carroll	52,948	48,506	4,442	8.4
Cherokee	114,906	107,512	7,394	6.4
Clayton	132,122	118,652	13,470	10.2
Cobb	379,715	352,152	27,563	7.3
Coweta	64,090	59,471	4,619	7.2
Dawson	11,561	10,773	788	6.8
DeKalb	373,131	341,145	31,986	8.6
Douglas	69,551	63,726	5,825	8.4
Fayette	53,789	50,124	3,665	6.8
Forsyth	92,984	87,272	5,712	6.1
Fulton	459,379	418,593	40,786	8.9
Gwinnett	437,810	406,711	31,099	7.1
Haralson	12,967	11,919	1,048	8.1
Heard	5,137	4,691	446	8.7
Henry	107,635	98,501	9,134	8.5
Jasper	6,607	6,044	563	8.5
Lamar	8,790	7,880	910	10.4
Meriwether	9,360	8,446	914	9.8
Newton	48,983	44,391	4,592	9.4
Paulding	73,864	68,292	5,572	7.5
Pickens	14,757	13,644	1,113	7.5
Pike	8,568	7,787	781	9.1
Rockdale	42,525	38,606	3,919	9.2
Spalding	29,622	26,367	3,255	11.0
Walton	41,503	38,290	3,213	7.7

Employment includes nonagricultural wage and salary employment, self-employment, unpaid family and private household workers and agricultural workers. Persons in labor disputes are counted as employed.

SOURCE: Georgia Department of Labor, Workforce Information & Analysis