Select area on the map:
Click a state from the map or pick a state from the list:
New Jersey | New York | Puerto Rico | Virgin Islands
![economic summary image](/congress115th/20181203183906im_/https://www.bls.gov/images/regions/economic_summary.gif)
Economic Summaries:
Economic Summaries are specialized products that combine data graphically from subjects such as unemployment, inflation, and wages into a single document for selected metropolitan areas. To view a specific area in this region, use the dropdown list below or click here.
News Releases:
Unemployment in the Philadelphia Area by County – September 2018
In September, Chester County, PA, had the lowest unemployment rate in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metropolitan Statistical Area at 3.0 percent.
Consumer Expenditures for the New York Metropolitan Area: 2016–17
Households in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa., metropolitan area spent an average of $67,782 per year in 2016–17.
Consumer Price Index, Northeast Region – October 2018
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Northeast inched down 0.1 percent in October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Consumer Price Index, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington – October 2018
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington was unchanged from August to October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Consumer Price Index, New York-Newark-Jersey City – October 2018
Prices in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), ticked down 0.1 percent in October, after advancing 0.4 percent in September.