Today’s Daily Data Discussion post is a follow up to yesterday’s post; today we’ll look at the markets with the lowest growth rates in the Education and Heath Services supersector. 

While several of the eleven BLS supersectors have shown contraction or actual loss in employment during the nation’s current economic struggles over the past several months, this supersector for the most part has performed at a very steady level given the nature of the jobs contained therein.  There are, however, markets that have shown a loss in the supersector, an issue which should demand further exploration if you have an interest in the following markets.

As noted previously, the September issue of The Emerging Market Report will feature a very broad discussion of employment in this supersector and further expanded market rankings in several other pertinent categories.

Here are the markets in our database as of today with the lowest (worst) growth rates in the Education and Health Services supersector –

1)  Lexington, KY -2.3%
2)  Cedar Rapids, IA -1.1%
3)  Flint, MI  -0.8%
4)  Yuma, AZ  -0.5%
5)  Odessa, TX  -0.3%

Database Average: 2.8%
Database Median:  2.6%

Tomorrow we’ll start a look at markets around the country which have the highest rankings in our Multifamily Market Fundamental Scoring algorithm. 

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