Cartersville-Bartow County
Economic Development

P.O. Box 2224
Cartersville, GA 30120
Phone: 770.607.1199

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Labor Force

The labor force available to companies doing business in Bartow County extends beyond our borders into the northern arc of the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) as well as into our neighboring counties in northwestern Georgia. The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) definition of Bartow County's Labor Draw Area (LDA) includes Bartow and its seven contiguous counties.

 

 

 

UNEMPLOYMENT RATES (GDOL not seasonally adjusted)

Bartow's LDA labor force (based on place of residence and persons 16 years and older) is 857,937 as of June 2024, of those 30,663 are unemployed and actively seeking employment.

June 2024

May 2024

June 2023

 

Labor Force

Employment

Unemployed

Unemp. Rate

Unemp. Rate

Unemp. Rate

Bartow County

54,097

52,026 2,071 3.8 3.3

3.2

Bartow LDA

857,937 827,544 30,663 3.7 3.2

3.2

NWGA Region

448,795 431,499 17,296 3.9 3.3 3.3

Atlanta MSA

3,300,120 3,171,567 128,553 3.9 3.4 3.4

Georgia

5,422,227

5,205,129

217,098

4.0 3.4 3.5

United States

169,007,000

161,774,000

7,233,000

4.3 3.7 3.8
             
(Data from GDOL released August 2024)

 

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*Disclaimer: Unemployment figures above may be slighty delayed from GDOL data shown at the top of the page

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Melinda Lemmon,  770.607.1197
Matthew Thomas,  770.607.1198
Connor Nicholson, 770.607.1199