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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:
  • 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 (2018-2000)

Silver Spring

2.63%

Largest Change: Bachelor Degree Holders

Riverdale - New Carrolton

24.6%

Highest Median Wage

Bethesda

$145,275

Subarea Unemployment Rate (2000) Unemployment Trend Unemployment Rate (2017) Unemployment Rate (2018) Periodic Unemployment Change 2018 - 2000 Change
Bethesda - Chevy Chase 2.09% 2.56% 2.64% 0.55%
Silver Spring 3.26% 6.42% 5.89% 2.63%
International Corridor 6.14% 6.31% 6.13% 0.01%
University of Maryland 7.02% 4.13% 2.93% 4.09%
Riverdale - New Carrolton 7.10% 7.14% 5.99% 1.11%
Total Unemployment Change 5.16% 5.31% 5.29% 0.13%
Denotations: D1 - Year 2000, D2 - Year 2006 to 2010, D3 - Year 2009 to 2013, D4 - Year 2010 to 2014, D5 - Year 2011 to 2015, D6 - Year 2012 to 2016, D7 - 2015 - 2017. 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.