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S.D. County Construction Sector Adds 1,100 Jobs in July

While unemployment in San Diego has risen slightly since May, the construction sector is bucking the trend.

The sector added 1,100 jobs in July, according to data from the state’s Employment Development Department, for a total of 72,900 construction jobs. That’s up about 2 percent from a year ago.

There haven’t been that many construction jobs in San Diego since late 2008, according to the latest data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

However, data from the Construction Industry Research Board shed light on what the workers are building — and reveal a year-over-year slowdown in construction.

Single-Family Units

In July, CIRB said San Diego had 182 single-family residential units under construction, valued at about $76.4 million. Statewide, only Orange and Los Angeles counties had higher numbers of homes being built.

A total of 267 new multifamily units broke ground last month in San Diego; only Los Angeles recorded more. The valuation of those units was about $41.2 million, CIRB said.

In total, those 449 residential units, plus about $30.7 million of work being done in alterations and additions, brought the value of residential construction in San Diego underway last month to about $148.4 million.

Commercial construction valued at about $48.9 million was underway, while new industrial building totaled about $39.8 million. Plus alterations and additions and other nonresidential construction, the value of that building activity totaled about $98.8 million.

Altogether, San Diego construction valuations were about $247.3 million in July, CIRB said.

Nearly $2.4 Billion

In the first seven months of 2016, the total of all building valuations in the county was about $2.4 billion, the data from CIRB show.

That’s about 10 percent lower than in the first seven months of 2015, according to CIRB.

Nonresidential construction valuations in San Diego dropped by about 9 percent when compared with the first seven months of 2015, while residential valuations slipped about 11 percent.

The number of total housing units was down nearly 7 percent, from 6,013 countywide to 5,620 units, pulled down by a 27 percent reduction in the number of single-family homes built.

Multifamily Gains

Four percent more multifamily units, however, were built in the first seven months of this year than in the same time last year, the CIRB data show.

Statewide, annual growth in housing units was down nearly 29 percent between June and July, and about 6 percent in the first seven months of the year compared with the same time in 2015, according to data from the CIRB.

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