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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 a growth rate of 0.4.
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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3.9% |
-2.7% |
0.1% |
-0.6% |
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7.2% |
-3.2% |
0.2% |
-2.8% |
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.
