Three of New York’s top 10 fastest-growing cities were in the Capital Region in 2017. Even more, on a year-over-year basis, the eight-county region also housed the state’s second and third fastest-growing towns and fastest-growing village, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data. Out of the Capital
The area’s homeownership rate last year rose for the first time since 2010. The uptick in this rate may provide clues to the area’s coinciding increase in its unemployment rate for the first time in six years, though economists remain divided over whether there is not only correlative but also a causal relationship between these
Residents of the Capital Region and its outlying counties are increasingly crossing county and state lines – and traveling longer – to get to work. At the same time, greater shares of workers in the region’s neighboring counties in Massachusetts and Vermont are likewise commuting across state lines. Taken together, these commuting trends support a
What is the Capital Region? The answer largely depends on who is asking and why. Are its boundaries being drawn to serve the purpose of a commercial market, community planning, tourism, standardized statistical reporting or economic development? With so many regional definitions circulating, it is easy to confuse them and the purposes they serve. Adding
Women working full-time in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy metropolitan statistical area (MSA) face the smallest pay gap in upstate New York and the fourth smallest in the Northeast. Even more, those working in the local management, utilities and manufacturing sectors are closest to earning as much – if not more – than their male counterparts, according to
