{"id":6336,"date":"2016-02-18T20:06:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T02:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2019-11-30T02:04:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T02:04:20","slug":"areas-of-oklahoma-struggle-to-add-jobs-in-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/areas-of-oklahoma-struggle-to-add-jobs-in-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Areas of Oklahoma Will Struggle to Add Jobs in &#8217;16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The collapse in energy prices (both crude oil and natural gas) will continue to weigh on much of the Oklahoma economy in 2016. <strong>Statewide, our projected job loss is -0.6%<\/strong> on a year-over-year basis.\u00c2\u00a0The weakness should be\u00c2\u00a0widespread\u00c2\u00a0but concentrated in a few regions.<\/p>\n<p>The map of job growth below (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/map-oklahoma-county-job-growth-outlook\/\">see a dynamic version here<\/a>) illustrates the wide range in expected performance across the counties this year.<\/p>\n<style>\n       .errordiv { padding:10px; margin:10px; border: 1px solid #555555;color: #000000;background-color: #f8f8f8; width:500px; }#advanced_iframe {visibility:visible;opacity:1;vertical-align:top;}.ai-info-bottom-iframe { position: fixed; z-index: 10000; bottom:0; left: 0; margin: 0px; text-align: center; width: 100%; background-color: #ff9999; padding-left: 5px;padding-bottom: 5px; border-top: 1px solid #aaa } a.ai-bold {font-weight: bold;}#ai-layer-div-advanced_iframe p {height:100%;margin:0;padding:0}<\/style><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var ai_iframe_width_advanced_iframe = 0;var ai_iframe_height_advanced_iframe = 0;var aiOnloadScrollTop=\"true\";var aiShowDebug=false;\n\t\tif (typeof aiReadyCallbacks === 'undefined') {\n\t\t\tvar aiReadyCallbacks = [];\n\t\t} else if (!(aiReadyCallbacks instanceof Array)) {\n\t\t\tvar aiReadyCallbacks = [];\n\t\t}    function aiShowIframeId(id_iframe) { jQuery(\"#\"+id_iframe).css(\"visibility\", \"visible\");    }    function aiResizeIframeHeight(height) { aiResizeIframeHeight(height,advanced_iframe); }    function aiResizeIframeHeightId(height,width,id) {aiResizeIframeHeightById(id,height);}<\/script><iframe id=\"advanced_iframe\"  name=\"advanced_iframe\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/app\/ok_empgrowth_county.htm\"  width=\"100%\"  height=\"475\"  frameborder=\"0\"  border=\"0\"  allowtransparency=\"true\"  loading=\"lazy\"  style=\";border-width: 0px;;border: none;;width:100%;height:475px;\" ><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var ifrm_advanced_iframe = document.getElementById(\"advanced_iframe\");var hiddenTabsDoneadvanced_iframe = false;\nfunction resizeCallbackadvanced_iframe() {}<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><p style=\"display:block !important; visibility:visible !important;margin: -18px 14px 0 0;padding-left: 3px;padding-top:3px;background: white; overflow: hidden; position: relative; line-height:15px;width: fit-content;\"><small style=\"display:block !important;visibility:visible !important\">powered by Advanced iFrame<\/small><\/p>\n<p>At the local level, our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regiontrack.com\/www\/2016-oklahoma-regional-economic-yearbook\/\">latest outlook<\/a> calls for <strong>36 of Oklahoma&#8217;s 77 counties to post a\u00c2\u00a0job loss this\u00c2\u00a0year<\/strong>. Nearly every county along the\u00c2\u00a0western edge of Oklahoma and in the Panhandle are expected to lose jobs. The <strong>hardest hit are the twelve counties\u00c2\u00a0with a projected loss of\u00c2\u00a0more than 1%<\/strong> (Texas County in the Panhandle; Nowata in the northeast corner; Woodward, Major, Alfalfa, Kingfisher, and Noble in the northwest and north central; Beckham, Washita, Tillman, and Stephens in the south central; and Seminole in the southeast).<\/p>\n<p>Both\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Oklahoma County (-0.5%) and Tulsa County (-0.2%)<\/strong>, the state&#8217;s two largest counties, are <strong>expected to\u00c2\u00a0lose jobs in 2016<\/strong>. These two counties\u00c2\u00a0will largely determine the overall state job growth rate.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the overall weakness, some <strong>areas of the state should perform quite well next year<\/strong>. Our outlook calls for <strong>41 counties to post a job gai<\/strong>n. Most of the counties expected to post <strong>gains<\/strong> are located along a <strong>band stretching from Cotton County in the southwest to Delaware County in the northeast<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A total of\u00c2\u00a0<strong>14 counties are expected to post only moderate jobs gains\u00c2\u00a0of\u00c2\u00a0less than 1%<\/strong>, while <strong>27 counties are projected\u00c2\u00a0to post a job gain exceeding 1%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>strongest outlook<\/strong> is for 6 counties with anticipated job gains of <strong>more than 3%<\/strong>. This group includes Cherokee, Sequoyah, and Haskell along the eastern edge, and McClain, Beaver, and Love in the south central portion, of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collapse in energy prices (both crude oil and natural gas) will continue to weigh on much of the Oklahoma economy in 2016. 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