LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas River barge traffic
Tons of freight hauled
May 814,349 April 1,061,940 March 1,198,056 Feb. 896,012 May 2009 522,044
Year 2009 11,657,847(+3%)
Construction contracts
In millions
Arkansas
RESIDENTIAL May $107.7 April $117.2 March $126.8 Feb. $97.6 May 2009 $92.9 NONRESIDENTIAL May $82.9 April $82.5 March $158.2 Feb. $87.5 May 2009 $69.4
Pulaski, Saline, Faulkner Lonoke, Grant and Perry counties
RESIDENTIAL May $35.0 April $40.7 March $45.8 Feb. $31.6 May 2009 $32.1 NONRESIDENTIAL May $42.4 April $9.7 March $58.3 Feb. $31.2 May 2009 $15.5
Consumer price index
U.S., percent change
May –0.2 April –0.1 March +0.1 Feb. Unchanged 2009 CPI 2.7
Gasoline prices
Pump price per gallon for regular gasoline in Little Rock area
June 25 $2.56 June 18 $2.51 June 11 $2.50 June 4 $2.53 One year ago $2.57 TAX PER GALLON Federal: 18.4 cents State: 21.5 cents
Hotel and prepared food tax receipts
LITTLE ROCK April $936,412.68 March $803,594.21 Feb. $772,668.30 Jan. $865,120.87 April ’09 $899,484.24 N. LITTLE ROCK April $484,084.61 March $522,643.14 Feb. $455,157.23 Jan. $426,001.81 April ’09 $457,820.63
Jobless rate
ARKANSAS May 7.7% April 7.8% March 7.8% Feb. 7.7 % May 2009 7.2% UNITED STATES May 9.7% April 9.9% March 9.7% Feb. 9.7% May 2009 9.4%
Manufacturing wages
Statewide
WEEKLY AVERAGE May $576.58 April $578.51 March $569.49 Feb. $547.79 May 2009 $566.40 HOURLY AVERAGE May $13.86 April $13.84 March $13.89 Feb. $14.01 May 2009 $14.16 HOURS PER WEEK May 41.6 April 41.8 March 41.0 Feb. 39.1 May 2009 40.0
Median home list prices
Weekly, for Central Arkansas*
June 21 $163,000 June 22, ’09 $169,900 *Pulaski, Saline, Faulkner, Lonoke, Grant and Perry counties
Weekly, for Northwest Arkansas*
June 21 $159,900 June 22, ’09 $174,900 *Benton and Washington counties
Passenger boardings
Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field
April 93,920 March 94,712 Feb. 72,692 Jan. 78,740 April 2009 91,346 April 2000 102,251
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport
April 46,851 March 47,895 Feb. 37,652 Jan. 35,361 April 2009 41,826 April 2000 29,558
Sales and use tax collections
In millions
May $162.9 April $165.6 March $159.8 Feb. $156.9 May 2009 $162.5
Single-family home sales*
Monthly, for Pulaski County, in millions
May $76.6 April $82.7 March $64.2 Feb. $42.5 May 2009 $74.7 * Pulaski County single-family home sales figures are in whole or in part based on data supplied by CARMLS, which neither guarantees nor is responsible for the information's accuracy.
Unemployment
April, by county
Lowest rates
Sevier 5.1% Madison 5.6% Washington 5.7% Yell 5.9% Miller 6.0%
Highest rates
Arkansas 17.0% Crittenden 12.7% Woodruff 12.5% Dallas 12.4% Mississippi 11.7%
Utilities
Customer usage
ELECTRICITY
In billions of kilowatt hrs. in Entergy’s 63-county service area
Jan.-March 2010 5.4 Jan.-March 2009 5.0 WATER
In billions of gallons in the Central Arkansas Water service area
Jan.March 2010 4.4 Jan.March 2009 4.1
RESEARCH BY: Erin Anthony,
business writer
SOURCES: Beach Abstract and Guaranty Co., U.S. Department of Labor, Memphis Branch of the Federal Reserve of St. Louis, Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau, Little Rock District/Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock National Airport/Adams Field, Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, McGraw Hill Construction, Arkansas Department of Workforce Services, Entergy Arkansas, Central Arkansas Water, AAA (formerly the American Automobile Association), Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, North Little Rock Visitors Bureau, CARMLS Inc., Arkansas Realtors Association. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Business, Pages 21 on 06/28/2010