Business Indicators for Dayton and the Miami Valley
How are Miami Valley businesses doing? This page gathers the public figures that answer it: new business applications, establishments and jobs by industry, wages, small business lending, business bankruptcies and the size of each county’s economy. Each figure updates on its own when its source publishes, and links to its full history, chart, methodology and data.
Two figures we’d add aren’t available: county taxable sales from the Ohio Department of Taxation, and WARN layoff notices from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Both are blocked at source: the state’s sites, and its open-data portal, refuse automated readers, and we don’t work around that. We recheck them every quarter and will add them if the state opens them.
The figures come from the federal and state agencies that collect them: the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Courts and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Each is counted for the Dayton area’s counties where the source publishes county figures, and for the wider area (a court district, the metro, Ohio) where it doesn’t, labeled as such. Each page explains exactly how its number is built.