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Employment
By combining the four Northeast Ohio metropolitan areas into a composite region, the NEO region ranks 127 out of 136 metropolitan areas and lies in the bottom quartiles with an annual growth rate of 0.1.
Akron, in 79th place, placing it in the third quartile, while the other three metro areas ranked in the bottom quartile.
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1.3% |
-0.8% |
0.0% |
-0.2% |
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0.7% |
-0.3% |
0.0% |
-0.3% |
Drivers of Employment Growth
Six factors are critical to increased employment. They are business dynamics, racial inclusion and income equality, individual entrepreneurship, urban assimilation, and urban/metro structure.
