Tri-Cities metro areas turned in some strong seasonally adjusted retail sales tax collections numbers in August. The three-county Johnson City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) comprising Washington, Sullivan and Unicoi counties led Northeast Tennessee led the three other NE Tenn. metro… Read More ›
July was another lackluster month for Tri-Cities retail sales tax collection. Kingsport-Bristol collections have lagged the four-county area’s 2018 market share benchmark every month this year. The three-county Johnson City metro area came off a good second quarter with collections… Read More ›
The Johnson City metro area had the third-best year-over-year sales tax collections in Tennessee in June while Kingsport-Bristol’s month-over-month collections were the best in the state. June was a good month for Tri-Cities collections, but it didn’t do much to… Read More ›
Looking at the Tri-Cities region as a single marketplace is the only way to have a handle of the local economic big picture. But there’s also benefit into a deep dive into the differences of house consumers in each of… Read More ›
The number of entrepreneurs is increasing in the Tri-Cities. So are their gross receipts. According to the Census Bureau’s latest count, there were 31,009 nonemployer businesses in the seven-county Tri-Cities region in 2017. That’s a 1.8% increase from the previous… Read More ›
May was another lackluster month for Northeast Tennessee sales tax collections. The three-county Johnson City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) almost reached the year-to-date collections growth rate for Northeast Tennessee, and its year-over-year collections were better than the state year-over-year rate… Read More ›
The Census Bureau is developing and expanding a data tool that’s intended to help businesspeople or those aspiring to start a business. Version 2.5 of a suite of service intended to provide selected demographic and economic data from the Census… Read More ›
