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Thursday, May 17, 2018 Contact: Jeannine Aversa, (301) 278-9003 Real Personal Income for Metropolitan Areas, 2016 The percent change in real metropolitan area personal income ranged from 6.6 percent in Jacksonville, NC to -8.1 percent in Midland, TX and Odessa, TX. • Large metropolitan areas — those with population greater than two million — with the fastest growth in real personal income were Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA (3.4 percent), OrlandoKissimmee-Sanford, FL (3.3 percent), and Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC (3.2 percent). • The three large metropolitan areas with declining real personal income were Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX (-3.3 percent), Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO (-0.7 percent), and Pittsburgh, PA (-0.4 percent). • Large metropolitan areas with the highest all items RPPs were San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA (124.7), New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA (122.0), and Washington-ArlingtonAlexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, (119.1). • Large metropolitan areas with the lowest RPPs were Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN (89.6), Cleveland-Elyria, OH (90.2), and St. Louis, MO-IL (90.8). • Across large metropolitan areas, San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA had the highest rents RPP (190.9) and Cleveland-Elyria, OH had the lowest (77.9). BEA data—including GDP, personal income, the balance of payments, foreign direct investment, the input-output accounts, and economic data for states, local areas, and industries—are available on the BEA Web site: www.bea.gov. E-mail alerts are also available. NOTE: The next release of Real Personal Income for States and Metropolitan Areas for 2017 will be in May 2019.