Labor Market in the Purple Line Corridor
Goal: Workers and employers in the corridor grow in number and are well matched in skill level and location.
Strategies:
Strategies:
- Identify skills needed for future purple line corridor jobs and develop workforce training strategy
- Enhance or launch workforce education, apprenticeship and training programs
Largest Change: Unemployment Rate
International Corridor
2.56%
Largest Change: Bachelor Degree Holders
University of Maryland
8.37%
Largest Wage Change
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| Subarea | Unemployment Rate (2000) | Unemployment Trend | Unemployment Rate (2014) | Periodic Unemployment Change | 2014 - 2000 Change |
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| Bethesda - Chevy Chase | 2.09% | 2.84% | 0.76% |
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| Silver Spring | 3.26% | 6.46% | 3.19% |
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| International Corridor | 6.14% | 9.11% | 2.97% |
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| University of Maryland | 7.02% | 11.80% | 4.77% |
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| Riverdale - New Carrolton | 7.10% | 48.40% | 3.50% |
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| Total Unemployment Change | 5.16% | 8.19% | 3.03% |
Denotations: D1 - Year 2000, D2 - Year 2006 to 2010, D3 - Year 2009 to 2013, D4 - Year 2010 to 2014. If you hover over the sparkline for unemployment trend, you can see the value in each division. Unemployment Change column depicts change in population per division.