{"id":54505,"date":"2025-07-10T16:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54505\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:05:14","slug":"houston-area-loses-jobs-through-start-of-2025-growth-still-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54505\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston area loses jobs through start of 2025, growth still expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston\u2019s May employment level was at its lowest mark since 2016, according to data from the Greater Houston Partnership.<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2014 As job growth in Houston appears to slow, immigration will play a key role in the ultimate employment numbers, one local economist says.<\/p>\n<p>Houston\u2019s May employment level was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2025\/06\/24\/may-employment-growth-lowest-level-since-2016.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at its lowest mark since 2016<\/a>, according to data from the Greater Houston Partnership. The metropolitan area added just 3,600 jobs between April and May and increased just 0.86% annually compared with May 2024. The historical average employment growth in Houston is 1.8%.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the Houston region has lost jobs through the first five months of the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houston.org\/houston-data\/economy-glance-july-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" id=\"isPasted\">according to recent data analyzed by the GHP<\/a>. As of May, employment stands at 3.471 million, down from a record high of 3.479 million at the end of December 2024. In total, Houston has lost 7,900 jobs so far this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2025\/07\/09\/houston-region-job-growth-slows-loses-jobs.html?utm_source=st&amp;utm_medium=en&amp;utm_campaign=ae&amp;utm_content=HO&amp;j=40619046&amp;senddate=2025-07-09&amp;utm_term=ep4&amp;empos=p4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong id=\"isPasted\">Continue reading this story<\/strong><\/a><strong id=\"isPasted\"> on the Houston Business Journal&#8217;s website.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This story came to us through our partnership with the Houston Business Journal. Keep up with the\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>latest Houston business headlines here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                    &#13;\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston\u2019s May employment level was at its lowest mark since 2016, according to data from the Greater Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,420,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-54505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114829795214034241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}