Employment

SEMCOG has produced estimates of place-of-work employment that provide a detailed view of economic change at the community level. The estimates cover March 1999 to March 2002. This time period includes the last year of the 1990s employment boom and the first two years of the current economic downturn. SEMCOG has also made a supplemental estimate of recent job changes at the regional level through August 2003.

Place-of-work employment for communities and subcommunity areas is needed as a basis for SEMCOG's forecast of populations, households, and employment, and for the long range transportation plan. The estimates are based on geographic coding of locations of business-establishment employment as reported for wage and salary workers covered by state and federal unemployment insurance programs.

Employment Change by Community, Southeast Michigan, 1999-2002 (PDF, 1.82 MB)