Brookings report ranks Raleigh-Cary strongest metro in N.C. - Triangle Business Journal:

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Brookings’ MetroMonitor ranks the nation’s 100 largestt metro areas based on their economic performancde as judged by six keyindicators – unemployment rates, wages, gross metropolitan product, housing prices and foreclosure The listing is broken down into five groups of 20. The groupa are listed as strongest, middle, second-weakest and weakest. The report covere the entire first quarterof 2009. The Greensborpo metro was listed in the report as one ofthe country’se second-weakest metros, while Charlotte was amongy the 20 middle metros.
Here’s how the Raleigh-Cary metrlo are fared in key The percentage change in employment from peak employment to firsft quarter 2009 wasnegative 2.9 percent; the percentage changd in the unemployment rate from the first quartee 2008 to the same quarter in 2009 was 4.6 the percentage change in grossd metropolitan product from peak GMP to first quarter 2009 was negativr 1.1 percent; and the real percent change in housing prices from firstt quarter 2008 to first quarter 2009 was 2 percent. Four of the top five stronges performing metros, according to the report, are in They are San Antonio, Austin, Houstohn and Dallas.
Oklahoma City was the othe r representative on the top five On theother hand, four of the five weakesty are in Florida. They are Bradenton, Tampa, Lakelanr and Jacksonville. MetroMonitor determined that Detroigt wasthe weakest-performing metro in the country. The which will be released on a quarterly bills itself as an interactive barometer of the healtghof America’s metropolitan economies and looks at national economicv statistics to portray the diversr metropolitan trajectories of recession and recovert across the country.