The Economic Indicators project provides continually updated information on poverty, earnings, and the economy in all Ohio counties and communities, with related demographics. In Ohio, Economic Indicators data include annual  income trends for all 612 Ohio school districts. Detailed data are also available on job growth and payroll earnings in all Ohio counties covering years between 1979-1990-2008, including measures of the very large job losses suffered by Cleveland and Ohio during the 2000s recession that has lingered longer in Ohio than it did elsewhere in the United States. In Cleveland the recession has been horribly catastrophic, with Cuyahoga County losing a staggering 16.5% of all its jobs, a job loss of 132,712 jobs.  The most recent income measures in Ohio show that thedamage from this recession has been severe among both low income communities and affluent communities on a statewide basis. All Economic Indicators information is available free upon inquiry by phone, e-mail, snail mail, and this web site. These analyses include a wide variety of research on the impact of economic trends on the well being of Ohio residents.

The Economic Indicators project closely follows trends in the business cycle within the Cleveland-Akron-Lorain-Elyria region. Current data show that the Ohio labor market never recovered from the 2000s recession, which has been over since 2002 in the United States, but which lingers in Ohio to this day, and which has been made much worse by the 2007-2010 United States national recession.

The project operates through the generous support of the Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners.

AVAILABLE DATA

Current Update to New Claims for Unemployment in Ohio and in Cleveland-Akron-Lorain-Elyria (weekly)

Ohio's Record Breaking Streak of Consecutive Months of Job Growth Below the USA National Average Stopped at 171 Consecutive Months; 14 Years and three months; New Preliminary Below Average Job Streak of 11 Consecutive Months now Active; Ohio Job Loss since December 2007 Rises to -282,500; Large Downward Revisions Correct former Ohio Job Overestimates (monthly)

Third Quarter 2009 Update to Job and Earnings Trends in all 88 Ohio Counties; Ohio loses 587,743 Jobs During 2000s Recession; 10.9% of Ohio Jobs Gone (quarterly)

Second Quarter 2008 Update to Job and Earnings Trends in All 88 Ohio Counties; Ohio Loses 262,383 Jobs During 2000s Recession (quarterly)

Depth of Recent Recessions: 16 Ohio Counties Lose More Jobs During 2000s Recession than They Lost During Brutal 1979-1983 Recession

Income Trends and Income Inequality in Ohio Communities (annual)

Median Income Trend in Cuyahoga County Communities (annual)

Cuyahoga County Job Losses 2002-2010 Drastically Different in the City of Cleveland and in the Suburbs; $3.1 Billion in Earnings Vanish in only Eight Years; 2007-2009 Recession Hits Suburbs Hard (annual)

Current Update to Cuyahoga County Sales Tax Trend (monthly)

Poverty reports from the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies, The State of Poverty in Ohio: 2002 and 2003  and 2004 and 2005 and 2006 are still available from OACAA.

Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies