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US Econ Dashboard
Interactive dashboard of state and county labor, cost-of-living, and education metrics from BLS, MIT, and NCES.
Click any state to see its labor, cost-of-living, and education metrics, then drill to county-level data. Sourced from BLS LAUS, state QCEW filings, MIT Living Wage Calculator, and NCES.
Data coverage
All 50 states and 3,000 plus counties. Click any state on the map to see unemployment rate (BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics, LAUS), median hourly living wage (MIT Living Wage Calculator, single adult, no children), bachelor's degree attainment (NCES Common Core of Data, ACS 5-year), and an industry employment mix from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW).
Sample state snapshots
- Colorado: unemployment 3.2%, living wage $25.02/hr, bachelor's attainment 44%
- California: unemployment 5.1%, living wage $27.81/hr, bachelor's attainment 36%
- Texas: unemployment 4.0%, living wage $20.95/hr, bachelor's attainment 32%
- New York: unemployment 4.3%, living wage $26.48/hr, bachelor's attainment 39%
- Florida: unemployment 3.6%, living wage $22.10/hr, bachelor's attainment 33%
- Mississippi: unemployment 5.8%, living wage $18.34/hr, bachelor's attainment 22%
- Massachusetts: unemployment 3.8%, living wage $26.40/hr, bachelor's attainment 47%
- Ohio: unemployment 4.2%, living wage $19.78/hr, bachelor's attainment 30%
- Georgia: unemployment 3.7%, living wage $20.42/hr, bachelor's attainment 33%
- Washington: unemployment 4.1%, living wage $25.93/hr, bachelor's attainment 38%
Primary data sources
- BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), series prefix LASST
- BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW)
- MIT Living Wage Calculator, annualized, single adult, no children
- NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), educational attainment by state
- Census ACS 5-year estimates for cross-validation
How to use
- Click a state on the choropleth map to load its dashboard.
- Switch the visible metric (unemployment, wage, education).
- Drill into county-level data with the search box.
- Export the underlying CSV from the data panel.
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