College Station-Bryan
at the margin.

## Labor Market Conditions — College Station-Bryan

The College Station-Bryan labor market is in equilibrium, holding steady through the end of last year. Employment grew 2.27% over the past year, a modest but consistent pace that reflects a market neither surging nor pulling back. Momentum is holding steady, with no meaningful acceleration or deceleration in the underlying trend.

The modest employment growth is consistent with what you'd expect from a mid-sized university-anchored metro: steady demand from the education and healthcare sectors, offset by limited industrial diversification. Unemployment declined roughly 6% relative to its level a year prior, meaning fewer residents are out of work today than at the same point last year — a quiet but real improvement in labor availability tightening at the margins (Fig. 1).