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Local economies by the numbers
Official monthly and quarterly numbers for metro economies: unemployment, payrolls, building permits, home prices, listings, wages and regional prices, each dated and linked to its BLS, Census, FHFA or Realtor.com source.
Idaho
Boise economy
Boise City, ID metropolitan statistical area
Unemployment
3.1%
Sep 2026
Payrolls y/y
+0.5%
Sep 2026
House prices y/y
+3.6%
Q2 2026
Median listing
$609,925
Sep 2026
Texas
Austin economy
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan statistical area
Unemployment
3.7%
Sep 2026
Payrolls y/y
+0.9%
Sep 2026
House prices y/y
+0.3%
Q2 2026
Median listing
$446,450
Sep 2026
How these pages are built
Every number is a public statistic from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau, the Federal Housing Finance Agency or Realtor.com, retrieved from the St. Louis Fed's FRED database and linked to its source. MarketIntelLabs computes the year-over-year changes and writes a plain-language fact sheet from the numbers. When our desk adds a short read on a release, it is written from that fact sheet, approved by the Managing Editor, and retired the moment the numbers change.
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