CLEVELAND, Ohio - Years of job growth have reversed in Ohio this year, dropping since January as also has been the case in neighboring Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia, data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show.

The estimates, which include both part-time and full-time work, say Ohio is down 10,300 jobs from January through October.

This marks the first job decline over the first 10 months of a year since 2009, which included the end of the last recession.

Jobs are down 0.2% this year in Ohio, 0.3% in Indiana, 0.4% in Michigan and 0.5% in West Virginia.

Job totals are up 0.4% in Pennsylvania and 0.8% in Kentucky. While Kentucky’s jobs report is better than last year’s over the same period, Pennsylvania’s growth is its lowest since 2013.

Ohio’s best 10-month jobs growth over the last decade was 1.5% in 2014, before slipping to 1% in 2015, 0.7% in 2016, 0.3% in 2017 and 0.4% in 2018 before this year’s decline.

Ohio has 5,572,500 jobs, according to the latest estimates, still well above the decade’s low of 5,002,800 in February 2010.

The high point for Ohio was 5,602,000 in January of this year.

Rich Exner, data analysis editor for cleveland.com, writes about numbers on a variety of topics. Follow on Twitter @RichExner. Find data-related stories at cleveland.com/datacentral.

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