Tennessee

Is single-family home construction improving? Perhaps, but it depends on where you are. Housing construction activity for Tennessee is trending lower, with lower activity also occurring in the Clarksville, Cleveland, and Nashville MSAs. Knoxville and Memphis MSAs are flat, while the trend is improving in Chattanooga, Jackson, Johnson City, Kingsport-Bristol, and Morristown MSAs.

REPORT: State Sales Tax Collections and Purchasing Power [pdf]

• Single-Family Permits (5/24/12)
• Labor Force since 2000 (5/7/12)
• Unemployment Rate (4/30/12)
• Initial Unemployment Claims (4/12/12)
• Sales Tax Collections (5/14/12)
• Nonfarm Employment (4/30/12)
• Nonfarm Employment Growth (4/30/12)

Summary

• Tennessee Economic Indicators
• Indicator History since January 2004 (.xls, 5/7/12)

Employment

• Employment Growth by Industry Summary Table
• Jobs Heat Chart

Housing

• Tennessee Housing Market (newsletter)
• Housing Price Index (summary table)
• Graph: Tennessee

Area Comparison

• Sales Tax Collections
• Single-Family Housing Permits
• Total Housing Permits
• Labor Force
• Nonfarm Employment
• Total Employment
• Unemployment
• Unemployment Rate

Population

• Tennessee's Business: Census 2010: Detailed maps by county
  
  • population growth
  • race
  • age
  • married / single
• Population Tables

News

[See individual MSAs for area headlines.]

• Tennessee Foreclosure Activity Up in April
  (Tennessean, May 17, 2012)
  
• Scott County, Tennessee, Hospital Set to Close
  (Tennessean, May 17, 2012)
  
• Haslam Signs Cash Grants Plan
  (Tennessean, May 17, 2012)
  
• Tennessee Jobless Rate Drops for 9th Straight Month
  (Tennessean, May 17, 2012)
  
• Tennessee Upgrades Its Job Search Website
  (Tennessean, May 16, 2012)
  
• Businesses Urged to Prepare for New Food Tax Rate
  (News Sentinel, May 14, 2012)
  
• Experts Worry Tenn. Pharmacy Students May Have Trouble Finding Jobs
  (Times News, May 13, 2012)
  
• La-Z-Boy Seeks Help to Expand Dayton, Tennessee, Plant
  (Times Free Press, May 11, 2012)
  
• State Sets July Trade Mission to Mexico City
  (News Sentinel, May 10, 2012)
  
• Daimler Joins Nissan in Decherd, Tennessee
  (Times Free Press, May 10, 2012)
• Tennessee Revenue $190 Million More Than Budgeted
  (Times News, May 9, 2012)
  
• Low Interest Rates Prod Spending
  (Tennessean, May 5, 2012)
• Tennessee Ranked 4th for Business Climate
  (Times Free Press, May 3, 2012)
  
• Tennessee Legislature: A Checklist of Business Policies for 2012
  (Nashville Business Journal, May 2, 2012)
  
• Report: 37,000 Tennessee Businesses Don't Have Broadband
  (Nashville Business Journal, May 2, 2012)
• Tennessee Business Leaders Visit White House
  (Nashville Business Journal, May 2, 2012)
  
• The Impact of Women-Owned Businesses
  (Nashville Business Journal, May 2, 2012)
  
• Milan Arsenal to Lay Off 429 Employees
  (Jackson Sun, April 30, 2012)
  
• Tennessee Construction Contracts Up 71 Percent in March
  (Nashville Business Journal, April 30, 2012)
  

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