Bureau of Labor Statistics

A direct pull of U. S.

When to use it

Showing a 10-year trend of unemployment and labor force around a deal location.
Tracking inflation (CPI) over an underwriting horizon.
Underwriting a market by job mix - which sectors are the dominant employers in a county.
Quantifying recent employment momentum (3-metric YoY panel) to support rent-growth assumptions.

1

Drop a Bureau of Labor Statistics action into an automation (or click the BLS ribbon button for ad-hoc).
2

Pick the category: Employment, Industry Breakout, or Employment Growth (CPI is configured via the BLS form on the ribbon).
3

Bind an Address range (cell with the address) and an Output range.
4

Choose Always use latest year or pin a year; for Employment Growth, set Number of years (the YoY window).
5

Optionally toggle Print charts (Employment Growth only) and Apply formatting.
6

The action geocodes the address, resolves the county/MSA, hits the BLS public API, formats a table, and (for Employment Growth) inserts a line chart.

Use Always use latest year in automations. The latest year provider walks the requested BLS series back until it finds a year with published data, so saved deals keep refreshing without manual updates.
The ad-hoc Employment dialog lets you change Area type (state, MSA, county, etc.), measures, seasonal-adjustment, and yearly vs monthly. The automation form is intentionally simpler - it always pulls all 4 measures, Seasonally Adjusted, Yearly Average.
Industry Breakout uses QCEW CSV (not the JSON BLS series API), so it requires the address to resolve to a U.S. county. International addresses won't work.
Employment Growth charts are line charts with circular markers. The chart name embeds the automation ID so re-runs update the chart in place instead of stacking new ones.