1994-2005 West Piedmont Planning District Labor Force, Employment, Unemployment, and Unemployment Rates
Civilian Labor Force
	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Franklin County	23,035	22,940	22,298	22,538	24,474	25,783	25,019	24,906	24,502	24,747	24,544	25,497
Henry County	30,491	30,451	28,978	27,604	27,942	27,738	26,707	26,711	25,981	26,098	25,915	25,476
Patrick County	9,020	9,285	8,973	8,725	8,988	8,980	8,552	8,769	8,596	8,491	9,035	8,849
Pittsylvania County	31,274	32,181	30,492	30,202	31,399	31,535	31,200	32,203	33,911	33,808	31,545	31,725
Danville City	27,177	27,387	26,404	26,107	25,011	25,077	25,090	25,689	23,669	24,089	21,055	21,020
Martinsville City	7,739	7,625	7,306	6,953	7,060	7,156	6,701	6,539	6,331	6,121	6,034	5,951
West Piedmont	128,736	129,869	124,451	122,129	124,874	126,269	123,269	124,817	122,990	123,354	118,128	118,518
Virginia	3,416,661	3,482,244	3,385,457	3,405,470	3,488,094	3,521,965	3,609,703	3,675,345	3,735,394	3,773,263	3,814,793	3,933,949
United States	131,056,000	132,304,000	133,943,000	136,297,000	137,673,000	139,368,000	140,863,000	141,815,000	144,863,000	146,510,000	147,401,000	149,320,000
Employment
	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Franklin County	21,939	21,705	21,172	21,682	23,797	24,738	24,112	23,734	23,057	23,560	23,624	24,626
Henry County	28,095	27,879	26,913	26,487	26,849	25,951	24,727	24,419	22,528	22,448	23,515	23,802
Patrick County	8,617	8,684	8,523	8,388	8,593	8,493	8,130	8,028	7,554	7,513	8,350	8,280
Pittsylvania County	29,077	29,435	28,405	28,408	29,788	29,693	29,853	29,485	31,234	31,220	29,602	29,741
Danville City	24,838	25,143	24,260	24,264	23,483	23,424	23,775	23,482	21,426	21,379	19,114	18,912
Martinsville City	6,985	6,931	6,691	6,585	6,690	6,458	5,888	5,814	5,314	5,272	5,304	5,352
West Piedmont	119,551	119,777	115,964	115,814	119,200	118,757	116,485	114,962	111,113	111,392	109,509	110,713
Virginia	3,250,202	3,325,234	3,236,182	3,270,655	3,386,333	3,424,001	3,529,902	3,548,047	3,583,240	3,619,741	3,674,434	3,797,730
United States	123,060,000	124,900,000	126,708,000	129,558,000	131,463,000	133,488,000	135,208,000	135,073,000	136,485,000	137,736,000	139,252,000	141,730,000
Unemployment
	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Franklin County	1,096	1,235	1,126	856	677	1,045	907	1,172	1,445	1,187	920	871
Henry County	2,396	2,572	2,065	1,117	1,093	1,787	1,980	2,292	3,453	3,650	2,400	1,674
Patrick County	403	601	450	337	395	487	422	741	1,042	978	685	569
Pittsylvania County	2,197	2,746	2,087	1,794	1,611	1,842	1,347	2,718	2,677	2,588	1,943	1,984
Danville City	2,339	2,244	2,144	1,843	1,528	1,653	1,315	2,207	2,243	2,710	1,941	2,108
Martinsville City	754	694	615	368	370	698	813	725	1,017	849	730	599
West Piedmont	9,185	10,092	8,487	6,315	5,674	7,512	6,784	9,855	11,877	11,962	8,619	7,805
Virginia	166,459	157,010	149,275	134,815	101,761	97,964	79,801	127,298	152,154	153,522	140,359	136,219
United States	7,996,000	7,404,000	7,235,000	6,739,000	6,210,000	5,880,000	5,655,000	6,742,000	8,378,000	8,774,000	8,149,000	7,590,000
Annual Average Unemployment Rate
	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Franklin County	4.8%	5.4%	5.0%	3.8%	2.8%	4.1%	3.6%	4.7%	5.9%	4.8%	3.7%	3.4%
Henry County	7.9%	8.4%	7.1%	4.0%	3.9%	6.4%	7.4%	8.6%	13.3%	14.0%	9.3%	6.6%
Patrick County	4.5%	6.5%	5.0%	3.9%	4.4%	5.4%	4.9%	8.5%	12.1%	11.5%	7.6%	6.4%
Pittsylvania County	7.0%	8.5%	6.8%	5.9%	5.1%	5.8%	4.3%	8.4%	7.9%	7.7%	6.2%	6.3%
Danville City	8.6%	8.2%	8.1%	7.1%	6.1%	6.6%	5.2%	8.6%	9.5%	11.2%	9.2%	10.0%
Martinsville City	9.7%	9.1%	8.4%	5.3%	5.2%	9.8%	12.1%	11.1%	16.1%	13.9%	12.1%	10.1%
West Piedmont	7.1%	7.8%	6.8%	5.2%	4.5%	5.9%	5.5%	7.9%	9.7%	9.7%	7.3%	6.6%
Virginia	4.9%	4.5%	4.4%	4.0%	2.9%	2.8%	2.2%	3.5%	4.1%	4.1%	3.7%	3.5%
United States	6.1%	5.6%	5.4%	4.9%	4.5%	4.2%	4.0%	4.8%	5.8%	6.0%	5.5%	5.1%
Source:  Labor Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), Historical Report on Labor & Unemployment, Virginia Employment Commission, May 2006.