Localized economic and demographic reports for Kingsport, Johnson City and Bristol Tenn.
January’s preliminary labor market reports show the Tri-Cities had a little more than 4,000 more nonfarm jobs than it did in January last year. The same report shows the seven-county region’s labor market had a nonfarm job gain of 500 last year … [Read more...]
Tri-Cities governments got off to a slow sales tax collection start in January. They were two of the three Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) with negative year-over-year performance for the first month of the year. Here’s how NE Tenn. metro … [Read more...]
The Tri-Cities new home construction sector slogged through some of the wettest weather on record during the fourth quarter of 2018, a softwood shortage during a trade spat with Canada, increasing material costs and a labor shortage with a 5 percent … [Read more...]
“You’re not from around here, are you?” The answer to that question is most local residents are still native Tennesseans, but their share of the total population is slipping and in a couple places the “outsiders” outnumber the natives. And no, … [Read more...]
Don Fenley is semi-retired from a 45-year career as a journalist and editor for both metropolitan and community newspapers. His news blog – Core Data – focuses on localized reports about the core elements of the Northeast Tennessee economy.
