Southwest Information Office

Shreveport

Title	BLS Subject	Product Type	Date Published
	AllEmploymentUnemploymentConsumer price indexesConsumer spendingBenefitsPayWorkplace fatalitiesIndustry price indexes
Southwest - Labor Force Statistics	Employment, Unemployment	Table	May 2023
Shreveport Area Economic Summary (PDF)	Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment	Economic Summary	Oct 2019
Occupational Employment and Wages in Shreveport–Bossier City – May 2018	Employment, Pay	News Release	Jul 2019
Fatal Occupational Injuries in Louisiana	Workplace fatalities	Table	Dec 2018
Consumer Price Index, South Region – October 2019	Consumer price indexes	News Release	Nov 2019
Parish Employment and Wages in Louisiana – First Quarter 2019	Employment, Pay	News Release	Sep 2019

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA Economy at a Glance:

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA

Data Series	Back Data	Aug 2022	Sept 2022	Oct 2022	Nov 2022	Dec 2022	Jan 2023
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force(1)		186.2	186.7	186.0	187.6	(p)186.5	(p)184.4
Employment(1)		179.0	179.9	180.2	181.9	(p)180.1	(p)177.5
Unemployment(1)		7.1	6.7	5.8	5.7	(p)6.4	(p)6.9
Unemployment Rate(2)		3.8	3.6	3.1	3.0	(p)3.4	(p)3.7
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm(3)		175.0	175.5	176.5	177.6	(p)178.0
12-month % change		2.3	2.6	1.9	1.3	(p)1.8
Mining and Logging(3)		4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	(p)4.7
12-month % change		9.5	7.0	7.0	7.0	(p)6.8
Construction(3)		8.2	8.2	8.2	8.3	(p)8.5
12-month % change		0.0	-1.2	-3.5	0.0	(p)0.0
Manufacturing(3)		10.1	10.0	10.1	10.1	(p)10.2
12-month % change		4.1	3.1	4.1	4.1	(p)5.2
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)		36.3	36.2	36.6	36.9	(p)37.3
12-month % change		3.4	2.3	2.5	0.3	(p)0.0
Information(3)		1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8	(p)1.8
12-month % change		12.5	20.0	0.0	0.0	(p)0.0
Financial Activities(3)		7.4	7.4	7.4	7.4	(p)7.4
12-month % change		0.0	0.0	0.0	-2.6	(p)-1.3
Professional and Business Services(3)		17.5	17.3	17.4	17.2	(p)16.9
12-month % change		-4.4	-4.4	-5.4	-7.0	(p)-7.7
Education and Health Services(3)		33.4	33.6	33.9	34.2	(p)34.2
12-month % change		5.7	7.0	5.6	6.9	(p)8.9
Leisure and Hospitality(3)		21.1	21.0	20.9	21.0	(p)21.1
12-month % change		5.5	8.2	6.6	4.0	(p)4.5
Other Services(3)		6.6	6.6	6.6	6.6	(p)6.6
12-month % change		4.8	4.8	4.8	1.5	(p)3.1
Government(3)		28.0	28.8	29.0	29.5	(p)29.3
12-month % change		-2.1	-1.4	-1.4	-0.7	(p)-0.3
Footnotes (1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. (2) In percent, not seasonally adjusted. (3) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data. (p) Preliminary