Columbia, SC ranks #6 of 8 South Carolina metros on 12-month growth in the metropolitan labour force
the Midlands · Data as of
· ALEX Intelligence
2.9%12-month growth in the metropolitan labour force (August 2026) — Columbia, SC
#
Metro
12-month labour force growth
1
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC
4.7%
2
Spartanburg, SC
4.0%
3
Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC
3.7%
4
Charleston-North Charleston, SC
3.2%
5
Florence, SC
2.9%
6
Columbia, SC
2.9%
7
Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC
1.9%
8
Sumter, SC
0.8%
Read this carefully: Not seasonally adjusted. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.
Methodology
Source:
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics and Current Employment Statistics, August 2026 (seasonally unadjusted, metropolitan)
Measure
12-month labour force growth, ranked highest first across 8 South Carolina metros
(8 ranked in total).
How the headline figure is computed
Within South Carolina: #6 of 8 South Carolina metros. Every rank on this page is computed from the same table named under Source, filtered to the peer set named; units the source reports no value for are left out of every set. No rank is stated against any wider set. Metros are included when BLS returns the series for them; the set fetched is every metropolitan statistical area whose principal city is in Alabama, Colorado, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.
Universe
Ranked only within the peer sets named on this page: South Carolina (8 ranked). Metros with fewer than 100,000 residents are excluded from every set. Units the source reports no value for are left out.
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by ALEX Intelligence. No figure on this page was written by hand or by a
language model. The query is stated so that anyone can re-run it and obtain
the same table.