Local Economy

Local Jobs (Unemployment)

Monthly labor force, employed, unemployed and unemployment rate for every US state, metro area, county and city of 25,000 people or more, since January 2010, from official US government labor statistics.

The answer is {total, limit, offset, seasonal, seasonally_adjusted, as_of, rows, about}. Area codes match the other area endpoints: state FIPS 48, county FIPS 48453, metro CBSA 12420.

get/local-jobs

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.dataporium.io
  • URL: https://api.dataporium.io/local-jobs
  • Auth: API key in query parameter apikey

Query parameters

area_typestring

state, metro, county or city

statestring

2-letter code or name, comma-separated

countystring

County name, with or without the word County

county_fipsstring

5-digit county FIPS code

metrostring

Part of a metro area name

metro_codestring

Metro area CBSA code

citystring

City name (add state)

area_codestring

Area code(s): state FIPS, county FIPS, CBSA code or city code (state + place FIPS)

namestring

Part of the area name

seasonalstring

nsa (default, every area) or sa (states only)

date_fromstring

First month: YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD

date_tostring

Last month

latestboolean

true = newest month of each area, with the change from a year earlier

sortstring

month (default), unemployment_rate, labor_force, employed, unemployed or area_name; with latest=true also unemployment_rate_change_1y, employed_change_1y_pct, labor_force_change_1y_pct

orderstring

asc or desc

limitinteger

Rows per page, 1 to 1000 (default 100)

offsetinteger

Rows to skip, for paging

Response

Successful response (JSON).

object required

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.