In order to rank the
metro areas with the highest share of profitable firms, researchers compared the total number of firms with employees in a
metro area to the number of firms in a
metro area reporting profits.
The
metro areas seeing the largest increase in construction jobs between March 2018 and March 2019 included the Phoenix area, which gained 13,800 construction jobs in the past year for an 11 percent increase; the Atlanta area, which added 7,600 jobs for a rise of 6 percent; and the Dallas area, which added 7,400 jobs for a 5 percent increase.
"To say that if we adopted Florida's tax structure, both downstate and
metro areas would suddenly turn around -- it's much more complicated than that," he said.
Of the 54
metro areas surveyed inJanuary 2019, the overall average number of home sales was down 26.1% compared toDecember 2018, and down 11.0% compared toJanuary 2018.
Since 2007, Rochester's real GDP has declined by 0.8 percentranking 89th among the 100 largest
metro areas. In contrast, Buffalo's 9.2 percent gain ranked 60th and Albany's 10.8 percent increase was 50th.
Because of the higher number of workers' comp doctors practicing in large
metro areas, the physician to patient ratio is generally lower than in smaller
metro areas.
An analysis of the nation's 50 largest
metro areas reveals a distinction in apartment market performance between business-friendly Sunbelt regions that gained the most people, and older
metro areas that gained the fewest people between 2010 and 2017, whether in total population, domestic migration, or immigration.
map of highest and lowest well-being communities generally reflects the pattern found across states, with the lowest well-being
metro areas found primarily in the South and then winding north up through the industrial Midwest.
At the same time, middle market companies offer a critical foundation for
metro areas looking to maintain or strengthen their economy.
Job growth has varied widely among the state's
metro areas since the recession, he said.
But the share of people living in poverty in half of the state's 25
metro areas surpassed the state figure, and roughly half of the state's
metro areas saw increased poverty rates in 2016.