U.S. Cities Gaining And Losing The Most Jobs [GRAPHIC]

The American economy might have not added any jobs in August, but for a handful of cities, the last year has been a period of substantial job growth, as represented in the below infographic by Visual.ly. It's in Ohio, in fact, that two cities have experienced job growth of over 8 percent. The small city of Pascagoula, Mississippi has unfortunately seen the worst percentage drop of any city in the country.

Nationally, the jobs crisis remains as prevalent as it was one year ago. Indeed, the the unemployment rate has only dropped to 9.1 percent from 9.6 percent in the same month of last year. So really, there remains only one number that truly matters right now: 13.9 million -- the number of unemployed people in America today.

The below infographic comes via Visual.ly, a data visualization company:

Comments

[woodheat]

06:23 PM on 09/07/2011

All I know is that there are a lot of apple orchards and agricultural type jobs in Wenatchee, Wa. Low wage, seasonal, and only for the strongest among us.

[StopMakingSense2]

03:35 PM on 09/07/2011

Yes but what kind of jobs? Not that republicans care. They would rather have a minimum wage broom pusher than someone who could demand a living wage..

[PBOHIO]

10:52 AM on 09/07/2011

CNN had a great chart this AM on where the job losses were and where they are coming back. The greatest losses have been to the "middle class". The greatest gain has been to the poor or lower income levels. What's happening here is the "middle class" are taking lower paying jobs just to have one. There has been NO GAIN in middle class jobs, but gains in lower and higher income brackets. I'm sure they have the charts on their website. Take a look, it's very interesting. This is where your "miracle" in Texas kicks in.....think about it!!!!!

[Heather Hackett]

12:16 PM on 09/07/2011

Are you trying to say that Rick Perry is the answer? Born and raised Texan here...trust me he is not your answer! Are figures suck..17% have no health insurance, Texas highest in country uninsured 27.2%, 1 out of 4 Texans have no health insurance, unemployment 9.1% USA, Texas unemployment 8.4%. We cut our fire dept budget from 30m to 7m and now the state is on fire! Do your research on ALL canidates!

[PBOHIO]

01:05 PM on 09/07/2011

NO!!!! What I was saying is all the "middle class" jobs are going down, down, down...Aren't the jobs in Texas mostly minimum wage jobs? That is where the middle class is going. That is the "miracle" in Texas jobs. Low wages and no benefits. I wanted people to think about what it would be like if Perry became Pres...I in NO WAY support Perry. He reminds me of a snake oil salesman who is trying to sell a false cure.

[cay12]

10:16 AM on 09/07/2011

What I would like to see is a study that shows not just how many jobs are lost or gained but the type of jobs that are lost or gained in specific regions. Which cities and states are losing more jobs that pay a living wage and replacing them with jobs that don't?

[ScottV]

10:05 AM on 09/07/2011

Stories without any true context are just a waste of time and space. No explanations, nothing to add any value to this. That's 2 1/2 minutes I'll never get back.

[UtahSlim]

11:49 AM on 09/07/2011

No kidding. Hiring 100 people for the grape harvest would boost the Winatchee, WA employmen by 5%.

[jonathanu]

09:40 AM on 09/07/2011

Some of these cities are pretty tiny, such that a single factory or outlet store opening up could make a huge difference, and there are only ten of these big gainer/big looser cities listed. I don't know what to make of this data. Is there any reason to think that they represent anything other than statistical noise? Are there any common themes, like a particular type of business moving in or out?

[barkingcat]

10:12 AM on 09/07/2011

Agreed -- and there's a name for this sort of attempt to illustrate useless data: "chart junk"...

[Ainsi sera groigne qui]

04:48 AM on 09/07/2011

Don't know about the rest of that "map" but ND has been booming for awhile now and is having a hard time attracting workers. Indeed it was covered on ABC evening news on Monday night.

Between the oil boom and everything else they've go going on people are finding multiple job offers within a day or less of arriving. One man interviewed by ABC news (a middle-aged long term unemployed trucker from Portland OR), found a job in a day and while he was prepared to kip out in his truck was able to find housing as well.

The boom is fueling all sort of shortages of employees from contruction to clerks at the local Walmart. The MacDonald's up there is one of the top grossing franchises in the USA currently.

If Americans continue to refuse to move up there in numbers, open up immigration to the Germans and Scandinavians. Am sure like their fore fathers many would be glad to repopulate the great northwest again.

[PoloniumMan]

10:57 PM on 09/06/2011

How about instead of a few cities showing plus or minus, they do a gradient map with county-level resolution.

[Core-Sample]

10:39 PM on 09/06/2011

all the rest, doing nothing at all?

[realorpretend]

09:58 PM on 09/06/2011

It's false data, those without any stats training get lost in its imagery. The grown ups know that this is fatly.

[sangog]

10:20 PM on 09/06/2011

I agree, no facts, If these are temporary, seasonal jobs all it really indicates is that people now have to be prepared to move wherever they can find a job. Think many have already figured that out by now.

[Elizabeth44]

01:40 AM on 09/07/2011

Wenatchee is probably seasonal agricultural jobs. That is a big agricultural area.

[democrats for life]

09:01 PM on 09/06/2011

look at Texas, they seem to live in red ink

[lrobb]

07:42 AM on 09/07/2011

They also have recently suffered extreme drought and wildfires which have put whole communities temporarily out of jobs. It's like counting the unemployment in New Orleans 10 days after Katrina hit.

[ScottV]

10:07 AM on 09/07/2011

That maybe true but this article does not state any contributing factor's could just as easily been the state shutting down a local office, or laying off teachers.

[democrats for life]

08:33 PM on 09/06/2011

i don't live too far from Grand Forks. not enough housing so people are living in tents. the housing that is there are getting premium prices for rent

[parrotfish]

07:51 PM on 09/06/2011

Except for Grand Forks most of those places I would not like to move to. But If I had to, I would have to move for a job I guess.

[akrazyrunner]

06:36 PM on 09/06/2011

It looks like Thomas Callahan II was right about moving into brake pad production for Sandusky to be doing so well

[jasev01]

05:38 PM on 09/06/2011

where are these places

[Rex Devious]

06:15 PM on 09/06/2011

Uh... did you not see the *map*?

[jasev01]

10:22 PM on 09/06/2011

not physically but as in those are not real "cities" anyone has heard of.

[Rogo99]

06:50 PM on 09/06/2011

Homeschool miss US Geography classes?

[jasev01]

10:22 PM on 09/06/2011

nope