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, 2010.

	Atlanta MSA	Georgia	United States
Civilian Labor Force	2,659,105	4,679,515	153,698,000
Employed	2,385,887	4,197,320	139,415,000
Unemployed	273,218	482,195	14,282,000
Rate	10.3	10.3	9.3

METRO COUNTY LABOR FORCE ESTIMATES

			UNEMPLOYMENT
	Labor Force	Employment	Number	Rate
Barrow	33,839	30,403	3,436	10.2
Bartow	45,352	40,037	5,315	11.7
Butts	10,114	8,885	1,229	12.2
Carroll	51,924	46,210	5,714	11.0
Cherokee	107,175	97,801	9,374	8.7
Clayton	132,914	115,946	16,968	12.8
Cobb	366,264	330,930	35,334	9.6
Coweta	58,840	53,180	5,660	9.6
Dawson	10,955	9,833	1,122	10.2
DeKalb	377,604	337,905	39,699	10.5
Douglas	64,283	57,027	7,256	11.3
Fayette	50,757	46,379	4,378	8.6
Forsyth	84,356	77,397	6,959	8.2
Fulton	478,287	427,422	50,865	10.6
Gwinnett	406,762	369,281	37,481	9.2
Haralson	12,574	11,115	1,459	11.6
Heard	4,782	4,213	569	11.9
Henry	95,639	85,672	9,967	10.4
Jasper	6,394	5,575	819	12.8
Lamar	7,740	6,773	967	12.5
Meriwether	9,261	8,123	1,138	12.3
Newton	46,140	40,531	5,609	12.2
Paulding	66,065	59,166	6,899	10.4
Pickens	14,920	13,386	1,534	10.3
Pike	7,973	7,091	882	11.1
Rockdale	39,631	34,919	4,712	11.9
Spalding	28,019	24,359	3,660	13.1
Walton	40,540	36,328	4,212	10.4

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