Unemployment by month, average pay by quarter, new home building permits and household moves for every US state, metro area, county and city, from official US government data.
Unemployment rate
Highest: District of Columbia 5.7%. Lowest: South Dakota 2.0%.
August 2026, seasonally adjusted
Average weekly pay
US $1,654. Highest: District of Columbia $2,725.
Q1 2026, all jobs
New homes permitted
1,418,086 in the last 12 months. Most: Texas.
To August 2026
People moving in
Biggest net gain: Florida +113,945. Biggest loss: California -209,197.
2022 to 2023
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Newest data: -. Seasonally adjusted. Click a row for its history.
See how the local economy behind a housing market is doing: the unemployment rate every month, average weekly pay and jobs every quarter, how many new homes are approved by building permits, and how many people move in and out each year. Search any state, metro area, county or city and click an area for its history.
The same numbers appear in the Stats panel of the real estate map for the area you search, and in the DataPorium API (/local-jobs, /local-wages, /building-permits and /migration) and MCP server. Building permits count homes approved to be built, not homes sold. Moves come from where households filed their tax returns in two years in a row, so people who do not file are not counted.
In August 2026, District of Columbia had the highest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate at 5.7%, and South Dakota the lowest at 2.0%. Every state, metro area, county and city of 25,000 people or more is in the table on this page.
In Q1 2026, average weekly pay was highest in District of Columbia ($2,725) and New York ($2,363). The US average was $1,654 a week across 154,771,941 jobs.
Building permits were issued for 1,418,086 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, 118,333 of them in August 2026. Texas led with 194,150 homes in the last 12 months, followed by Florida (158,370).
From 2022 to 2023, the states with the largest net gain of people from moves were Florida (+113,945), Texas (+111,404), North Carolina (+69,419), South Carolina (+59,037), Tennessee (+42,740). The largest net losses were in California (-209,197), New York (-164,112), Illinois (-55,609), New Jersey (-32,182), Massachusetts (-30,460).
All of it is official US government data. Unemployment is updated every month, pay and jobs every quarter (about five to six months after the quarter ends), building permits every month and moves once a year. Unemployment for states is seasonally adjusted; for metro areas, counties and cities it is not, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier.
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