Oakland County has regained more than three-quarters of the jobs it lost during the recession's nadir, and the average number of days homes spend on the market has been nearly cut in half, falling from 116 to 59 from 2009-2013. Check out the numbers in this
Crain's Detroit story.
Excerpt:
"Oakland County added more than 65,000 jobs in 2011, 2012 and 2013, according to an economic outlook for the county produced in May by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy.
Since 2010, the industries with the greatest growth in Oakland County have been in business support services and engineering services, which grew 56 percent and 49.1 percent, respectively."
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