{
  "edition": "2026-11",
  "publication_date": "2026-11-03",
  "geography": "Adams County, Mississippi; economic context for Natchez",
  "geography_code": "28001",
  "audience": "Lenders, property owners and commercial real estate colleagues",
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics",
      "url": "https://www.bls.gov/lau/",
      "api": "https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/",
      "sha256": "5af6a178f8efc21b89038a00e881406737f28ff2cc845214250d02c6b227dbbe",
      "observed_at": "2026-11-03T09:51:13.216318+00:00",
      "series_ids": [
        "LAUCN280010000000003",
        "LAUCN280010000000004",
        "LAUCN280010000000005",
        "LAUCN280010000000006"
      ]
    },
    {
      "url": "https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/1/area/28001.csv",
      "sha256": "92105ed7e2f22090b8aff42f5e124f489a657c05495c47d8baa109b11bc82826",
      "observed_at": "2026-11-03T11:12:04.767362+00:00",
      "rows": 905
    },
    {
      "url": "https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2026/1/area/28001.csv",
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      "observed_at": "2026-11-03T11:12:04.809088+00:00",
      "rows": 890
    }
  ],
  "resident_reference": "September2025 versus September2026; current September preliminary; not seasonally adjusted",
  "resident": {
    "rate": {
      "prior": "5.6",
      "current": "4.9",
      "difference": "-0.7",
      "percent_change_full_precision": "-12.500",
      "percent_change_display": "-12.50",
      "difference_unit": "percentage points"
    },
    "unemployed": {
      "prior": "560",
      "current": "475",
      "difference": "-85",
      "percent_change_full_precision": "-15.17857142857142857142857143",
      "percent_change_display": "-15.18"
    },
    "employed": {
      "prior": "9445",
      "current": "9255",
      "difference": "-190",
      "percent_change_full_precision": "-2.011646373742721016410799360",
      "percent_change_display": "-2.01"
    },
    "labor_force": {
      "prior": "10005",
      "current": "9730",
      "difference": "-275",
      "percent_change_full_precision": "-2.748625687156421789105447280",
      "percent_change_display": "-2.75"
    }
  },
  "resident_employment_trend": [
    {
      "period": "2025-09",
      "employed_residents": 9445,
      "source_value": "9445",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {}
      ],
      "preliminary": false
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-10",
      "employed_residents": null,
      "source_value": "-",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {
          "code": "X",
          "text": "Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations."
        }
      ],
      "preliminary": false
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-11",
      "employed_residents": 9350,
      "source_value": "9350",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {}
      ],
      "preliminary": false
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-12",
      "employed_residents": 9410,
      "source_value": "9410",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {}
      ],
      "preliminary": false
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-01",
      "employed_residents": 9060,
      "source_value": "9060",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {}
      ],
      "preliminary": false
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-02",
      "employed_residents": 9102,
      "source_value": "9102",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {}
      ],
      "preliminary": false
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-03",
      "employed_residents": 9149,
      "source_value": "9149",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {}
      ],
      "preliminary": false
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-04",
      "employed_residents": 9356,
      "source_value": "9356",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {}
      ],
      "preliminary": false
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-05",
      "employed_residents": 9456,
      "source_value": "9456",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {}
      ],
      "preliminary": false
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-06",
      "employed_residents": 9286,
      "source_value": "9286",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {}
      ],
      "preliminary": false
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-07",
      "employed_residents": 9238,
      "source_value": "9238",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {}
      ],
      "preliminary": false
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-08",
      "employed_residents": 9195,
      "source_value": "9195",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {}
      ],
      "preliminary": false
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-09",
      "employed_residents": 9255,
      "source_value": "9255",
      "source_footnotes": [
        {
          "code": "P",
          "text": "Preliminary."
        }
      ],
      "preliminary": true
    }
  ],
  "matched_march_resident_employment": {
    "prior": "9293",
    "current": "9149",
    "difference": "-144",
    "percent_change_full_precision": "-1.549553427310879156354245130",
    "percent_change_display": "-1.55"
  },
  "workplace_reference": "March2025 versus March2026 covered payroll jobs; first-quarter wages and establishments; current2026 preliminary",
  "workplace": {
    "total_covered": {
      "march_jobs": {
        "prior": "9740",
        "current": "9869",
        "difference": "129",
        "percent_change_full_precision": "1.324435318275154004106776200",
        "percent_change_display": "1.32"
      },
      "covered_establishments": {
        "prior": "775",
        "current": "773",
        "difference": "-2",
        "percent_change_full_precision": "-0.2580645161290322580645161300",
        "percent_change_display": "-0.26"
      },
      "average_weekly_wage": {
        "prior": "830",
        "current": "857",
        "difference": "27",
        "percent_change_full_precision": "3.253012048192771084337349400",
        "percent_change_display": "3.25"
      },
      "q1_monthly_jobs": {
        "2025": [
          9740,
          9760,
          9740
        ],
        "2026": [
          9825,
          9844,
          9869
        ]
      }
    },
    "private": {
      "march_jobs": {
        "prior": "8329",
        "current": "8456",
        "difference": "127",
        "percent_change_full_precision": "1.524792892303998079001080600",
        "percent_change_display": "1.52"
      },
      "covered_establishments": {
        "prior": "726",
        "current": "724",
        "difference": "-2",
        "percent_change_full_precision": "-0.2754820936639118457300275500",
        "percent_change_display": "-0.28"
      },
      "average_weekly_wage": {
        "prior": "839",
        "current": "868",
        "difference": "29",
        "percent_change_full_precision": "3.456495828367103694874851000",
        "percent_change_display": "3.46"
      },
      "q1_monthly_jobs": {
        "2025": [
          8320,
          8347,
          8329
        ],
        "2026": [
          8414,
          8429,
          8456
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "methods": {
    "percent_change": "100 \u00d7 (current/prior \u2212 1)",
    "rate_difference": "Current published unemployment rate minus prior published rate, in percentage points",
    "comparison": "Same calendar month or quarter across years; LAUS and QCEW periods/populations not subtracted or joined as a commuting or trend estimate",
    "precision": "Unrounded Decimal ratios retained. Displayed dollars/percentages use two decimals. Source unemployment rates are published to one decimal and wages to whole dollars; trailing zeros do not add source precision.",
    "missing_month": "October2025 LAUS is unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations (source footnoteX). It remains null; the chart does not connect across or interpolate that gap.",
    "qcew_selectors": {
      "area_fips": "28001",
      "industry_code": "10",
      "own_code": [
        "0",
        "5"
      ],
      "size_code": "0",
      "quarter": "1"
    },
    "disclosure": "Only published total/private aggregate rows with blank disclosure flags are used; suppressed values are not interpreted as zero."
  },
  "limits": [
    "County measures are not Natchez municipal statistics or a specific property trade area.",
    "LAUS describes employed residents once per person; QCEW describes covered jobs at workplaces. Periods differ.",
    "These comparisons do not identify commuting, migration, retirement, hiring at a specific tenant or causes of participation changes.",
    "Wages are nominal averages affected by workforce mix and bonuses, not same-worker raises or inflation-adjusted purchasing power.",
    "No rents, vacancy, absorption, commercial sale prices, property value conclusion or numerical adjustment is established.",
    "November is the issue date, not a claim of October or November employment observations."
  ],
  "mls_inputs_used": false,
  "confidential_assignment_inputs_used": false
}