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Douglas County · county seat Roseburg

Douglas

Every economic-indicator report SOWIB has published covering this county, oldest to newest, with each change of publication marked where it happened.

Reports
72
Published under
3 different titles
Seams
1
Months with no report
38
Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators
July 2017 to January 2022
Economic Indicators for Coos, Curry and Douglas Counties
July 2020 to December 2020
Douglas County Economic Indicators
February 2022 to July 2026

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  1. July 2026

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - July 2026

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County’s nonfarm employment declined by 2% (-560 jobs) over the year to June.

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  2. June 2026

    Douglas Economic Indicators - June 2026

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Total employment declined slightly in Douglas County over the last year, by about 270 jobs (-1%).

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  3. May 2026

    Douglas Economic Indicators - May 2026

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • The April unemployment rate was 6.2% in Douglas, 0.5 percentage points higher than in April 2025.
    • Manufacturing employment grew in Douglas and Oregon throughout the 2010s, and peaked for both around 2019, with a 20-25% increase over the decade.
    • Since late 2022, however, manufacturing jobs have declined consistently in Oregon and Douglas.

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  4. April 2026

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - April 2026

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • February’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.3% in Douglas County.
    • Over the year to February, Douglas County employment was essentially unchanged, adding 50 jobs.

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  5. March 2026

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - March 2026

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    This report names no figure specific to Douglas County. Its figures cover douglas reported on its own.

    • Top Occupations Oregon Employers Were Hiring in 2025 Job Vacancies on Quality Info

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  6. February 2026

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - February 2026

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Over the year to December, Douglas County employment was essentially flat, adding 80 jobs.

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  7. January 2026

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - January 2026

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Over the year to November, Douglas County employment was essentially flat, adding 80 jobs.

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  8. December 2025

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - December 2025

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Over the year to September, Douglas County employment was basically flat (-100).

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  9. November 2025

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - November 2025

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    This report names no figure specific to Douglas County. Its figures cover douglas reported on its own.

    • After being delayed by the federal shutdown, Oregon’s local monthly employment reports for September will be released on Tuesday, December 16th.
    • Job Vacancies: The number of private job vacancies declined in Oregon over the year to the summer of 2025, with a smaller decline taking place in Southwestern Oregon.

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  10. October 2025

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - October 2025

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    This report names no figure specific to Douglas County. Its figures cover douglas reported on its own.

    • Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) suspended the monthly employment and unemployment reports for the nation, states, and metropolitan areas as of Oct. 1, 2025.

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  11. September 2025

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - September 2025

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County total nonfarm employment increased by 90 over the year to August.
    • Douglas’s job growth in the sector has lagged the state, and during recessions has dipped below 2001 levels.

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  12. August 2025

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - August 2025

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County total nonfarm employment increased by 260 over the year to July.

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  13. July 2025

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - July 2025

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Over the year to June, Douglas County total nonfarm employment declined by 240.
    • While forestry employment has declined over 25 years, Douglas County punches far above its weight in terms of job share.
    • Douglas County has 12% of the state’s jobs in forestry and logging, compared to 2% of jobs overall.

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  14. June 2025

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - June 2025

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Over the year, Douglas County total nonfarm employment declined by 390 jobs.

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  15. May 2025

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - May 2025

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Over the year, Douglas County employment declined by 480.

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  16. April 2025

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - April 2025

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Over the year, Douglas County employment declined by 100.

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  17. March 2025

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - March 2025

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Over the year, Douglas County lost 70 jobs – essentially, employment was unchanged.

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  18. February 2025

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - February 2025

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

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    • Seasonally adjusted unemployment was 5.2% in January 2025, 0.3 percentage points higher than the year before.
    • As one of the most heavily affected industries and last to reopen fully in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, employment levels declined substantially in 2020 and 2021.

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  19. January 2025

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - January 2025

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Over the course of 2024, Douglas County added 290 jobs, growth of about 1%.
    • Using the most recent (2022) data for Douglas County, I looked at where workers crossed county lines.
    • Of the 37,500 workers employed in Douglas by this measure, 27% came in from outside the county.

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  20. December 2024

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - December 2024

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • From November of last year, Douglas County added 180 jobs.

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  21. November 2024

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - November

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County added 140 jobs from October 2023 to October 2024.
    • Relative to 2001, Douglas has 70% more health care employment, versus about 90% more in the state.
    • Recovery has been strong however, and Douglas and state employment in health care are well above their historic peaks from late 2019.

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  22. October 2024

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - October

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment grew by 260 jobs over the year to September 2024.

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  23. 1 month with no report published

  24. August 2024

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - August 2024

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment declined by 150 jobs from July 2023 to July 2024.

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  25. July 2024

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - July 2024

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment was essentially unchanged over the last year, declining by about 70 jobs from June 2023 to June 2024.
    • The graph this month looks a bit closer at Douglas County workers aged 55 and older, who make up much more of the workforce in the county, state, and nation than in decades past.
    • Statewide about 24% of workers are older than 55 and 8% older than 65, versus about 27% and 9% in Douglas respectively.

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  26. June 2024

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - June 2024

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County farm and forestry jobs make up more of our local job mix – about 8% of local jobs, versus about 5% statewide.
    • From winter to summer, agriculture jobs varied 17% and forestry jobs 25% in Douglas County.

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  27. May 2024

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - May 2024

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Over the year to April 2024, Douglas County added 60 net jobs.
    • Seasonally adjusted unemployment ticked up to 5.0% over the year, which is still lower than the historical average in Douglas County.

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  28. April 2024

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - April 2024

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • From March 2023 to March 2024, employment grew by 330 (1%) in Douglas County.

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  29. March 2024

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - March 2024

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • From February 2023 to 2024 Douglas saw very little change in jobs.
    • Douglas still has fewer construction jobs than in 2006, its recent high-water mark.
    • The state is at an all-time high for construction jobs, although indexed job growth since 2001 in Douglas has nearly matched the state’s (35% growth versus 45%).

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  30. February 2024

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - February 2024

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • From January 2023 to 2024 Douglas saw very little change in jobs.

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  31. January 2024

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - January 2024

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • This month’s data release marks the last of 2023, a good occasion to look back on the last year of job changes in Douglas.
    • Douglas has recovered nearly all the jobs lost in 2020 on a seasonally adjusted basis.

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  32. December 2023

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - December 2023

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

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    • Job growth was slow but positive over the 12 months to November 2023.
    • The unemployment rate was 4.5%, a 1.5 percentage point decrease from the year before.

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  33. November 2023

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - November 2023

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Adjusting for the seasonal change in jobs, Douglas County is only 530 jobs below its pre-pandemic peak (-1%) and the unemployment rate has fallen one and a half percentage points over the last twelve months.
    • Thankfully, the 2020 recession didn’t cause large manufacturing employment declines in most areas in Oregon, which is the case in Douglas as well.

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  34. October 2023

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - October 2023

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Although Oregon has regained the number of jobs lost in 2020, Douglas County still lags that level slightly.
    • Douglas has about 1% fewer jobs than early 2020 on a seasonally adjusted basis.

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  35. September 2023

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - September 2023

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Adjusting for the seasonal change in jobs, Douglas County is only 530 jobs below its pre-pandemic peak (-1%) and the unemployment rate has fallen one percentage point over the last twelve months.
    • Douglas County has more people who have graduated high school than the nation – 11 % of the U.S. population didn’t complete high school, whereas only 9% of the Douglas County population did not.
    • Douglas has a significantly higher percentage who had some college or an associate’s degree, and a significantly lower percentage who have a bachelor’s degree or more. 18% of Douglas County residents have a four year degree or more, whereas 34% of the U.S. population does.

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  36. August 2023

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - August 2023

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

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    • By total job counts, we remain about 2% below the pre-pandemic peak, but the gap varies by industry.
    • Unemployment stood at 4.6%, near the all-time record low of 4.3% set in November 2019.

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  37. July 2023

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - July 2023

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

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    • The unemployment rate was 4.8% in June, very low in historical context but not at quite the record low level set in late 2019.

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  38. June 2023

    Report with no title on the current site

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    This report is listed in SOWIB’s archive but did not return content when the site was read on 4 August 2026. Nothing is shown for it here, because nothing was published to show.

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  39. May 2023

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - May 2023

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment declined by 340 jobs, or 1%, over the last year.
    • Tepid job growth in the last 18-24 months has meant that even though initial job losses were muted in comparison with the state Douglas County jobs are down about 3% from where they were in early 2020.

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  40. April 2023

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - April 2023

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Summer jobs for young workers in Douglas and Oregon are less common than they used to be, although a wave of hiring and tight 2021 labor market made for the highest level of teens working since 2007.

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  41. March 2023

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - March 2023

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County job growth was essentially flat year-to-year in February 2023.
    • The special graph this month focuses in on difficult-to-fill jobs in Southwestern Oregon (Coos, Curry and Douglas county). 76% of job vacancies were considered difficult to fill by employers in 2022, a bit higher than the state’s rate of 72% and a record annual level since we began the survey in 2013.

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  42. February 2023

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - February 2023

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County job growth continued from January 2022 to January 2023.
    • Douglas County employment grew by 1%, led by job gains in health care, education, and other services.

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  43. January 2023

    Report with no title on the current site

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    This report is listed in SOWIB’s archive but did not return content when the site was read on 4 August 2026. Nothing is shown for it here, because nothing was published to show.

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  44. December 2022

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - December 2022

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment grew by 1%, or 270 jobs, from November 2021 to November 2022, led by growth in health care and tribal government.

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  45. November 2022

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - November 2022

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment grew by 1%, or 580 jobs, from October 2021 to October 2022.
    • The graph this month looks at 12 years of retail jobs in Oregon and Douglas County, with each indexed to the number of jobs in January 2010.
    • Douglas County retail job growth lagged the state slightly during the 2010s.

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  46. October 2022

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - October 2022

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment grew by 2%, or 580 jobs, from September 2021 to September 2022.

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  47. September 2022

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - September 2022

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment grew by 2%, or 580 jobs, from August 2021 to August 2022.
    • Douglas County has a higher concentration of manufacturing jobs than the state - 12 percent of jobs, compared to the state’s 10 percent.

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  48. August 2022

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - August 2022

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment was essentially unchanged from July 2021 to July of this year.

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  49. July 2022

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - July 2022

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment was essentially the same in June 2022 as in the year before.
    • In terms of the total number of working people, there are more in Douglas County’s labor force than pre-pandemic and essentially the same as there were in 2010.
    • The growth for Douglas County hasn’t nearly matched the state, however, which has been grown by about 12% since 2010.

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  50. June 2022

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - June 2022

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment has increased by 100 jobs over the year from May 2021.
    • May 2022 Douglas County leisure and hospitality employment (the purple line) is higher than it was in May 2019.

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  51. May 2022

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - May 2022

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment has increased by 60 jobs (+0.2%) over the year from April 2021.

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  52. April 2022

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - April 2022

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Douglas County employment increased by 180 on a seasonally adjusted basis in March.

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  53. March 2022

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - March 2022

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    This report names no figure specific to Douglas County. Its figures cover douglas reported on its own.

    • Employment saw a slight decrease in February 2022 of 40 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis.
    • The unemployment rate declined slightly to 4.7%, which is remarkably low in the historical perspective.

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  54. February 2022

    Douglas County Economic Indicators - February 2022

    Published as Douglas County Economic Indicators · Douglas reported on its own

    • Employment decreased by 180 jobs in January in Douglas County on a seasonally adjusted basis, after gains of 200 and 140 in the previous two months.

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  55. Renamed · February 2022

    From February 2022, Douglas County's indicators moved from Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators to Douglas County Economic Indicators. The two publications cover different geographies, so figures either side of this line are not comparable.

  56. January 2022

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators for January 2022 (Douglas data)

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

    • Employment increased by 70 jobs in December in Douglas County on a seasonally adjusted basis, and the unemployment rate declined to 4.9%.
    • In Douglas County the spread between industries is quite large – workers 65 and older make up more than 10% of workers in transportation and warehousing, agriculture and forestry, and other services (this industry includes repair services, personal care such as nail salons, and religious organizations).

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  57. December 2021

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators for December 2021 (Douglas data)

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

    • Douglas County employment grew slightly from November of last year, adding 130 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis.

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  58. 2 months with no report published

  59. September 2021

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators for September 2021

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

    • Coos County has the most percentage of jobs to regain since the beginning of the pandemic at 5.0%, Douglas County follows at 4.3%.

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  60. 2 months with no report published

  61. June 2021

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators for June 2021

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

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  62. May 2021

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators May 2021 (April 2021 Data)

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

    • Douglas County lost 160 jobs in April.

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  63. April 2021

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators April 2021 (March 2021 Data)

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

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  64. March 2021

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators March 2021 (February 2021 Data)

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

    • Douglas County payroll fell by 1,480 jobs as a loss of 3.8% over the year.

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  65. February 2021

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators February 2021 (January 2021 Data)

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

    • Local education is still seeing jobs lost due do the COVID-19 pandemic that showed the biggest losses in Coos and Douglas Counties.

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  66. January 2021

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators January 2021 (December 2020 Data)

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

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  67. December 2020

    One-off edition

    Coos, Curry and Douglas County Indicators for December 2020 (November 2020 data)

    Published as Economic Indicators for Coos, Curry and Douglas Counties · All three counties named in one post

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  68. 1 month with no report published

  69. October 2020

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators (October 2020 Data)

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

    This report names no figure specific to Douglas County. Its figures cover coos, curry and douglas counties reported as one region.

    • Private health care and social assistance is projected to add 1,410 jobs in the three county area.
    • Construction and Financial activities are still trending downward from their peak employments found in 2006.

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  70. 1 month with no report published

  71. August 2020

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

    This post carries a title and no readable text on the current site.

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  72. July 2020

    One-off edition

    Economic Indicators for Douglas, Coos and Curry Counties August 2020

    Published as Economic Indicators for Coos, Curry and Douglas Counties · All three counties named in one post

    • Brian Rooney the Regional Economist mentioned in this Employment Press Release that in Douglas County only 31 percent of the jobs lost have been added back.

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  73. 10 months with no report published

  74. August 2019

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

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  75. 9 months with no report published

  76. October 2018

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

    This post carries a title and no readable text on the current site.

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  77. 10 months with no report published

  78. November 2017

    November 2017 Economic Indicators

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

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  79. October 2017

    October 2017 Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

    This report names no figure specific to Douglas County. Its figures cover coos, curry and douglas counties reported as one region.

    • Featured is the chart detailing the permits issued by unit-type from 2006 to 2015 and the relationship to employment in the construction industry.

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  80. 2 months with no report published

  81. July 2017

    Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators July 2017

    Published as Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region

    • Douglas County remains at 4.7% unemployment.

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  82. Date not stated

    One-off edition

    Economic Indicators for Coos, Curry and Douglas Counties

    Published as Economic Indicators for Coos, Curry and Douglas Counties · All three counties named in one post

    • Douglas County added 160 jobs in September showing some signs of recovery.

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