AL.com: Recession in Alabama in two-thirds of Metropolitan Areas in 2012

Alabama

Per an article in AL.com, only four out of twelve Alabama metropolitan areas achieved growth in 2012.  These metro areas were Birmingham-Hoover, Florence-Muscle Shoals, Auburn-Opelika, and Decatur.

The AL.com article is linked below.

AL.com: Alabama recession in 2012

"GDP also fell in Daphne-Fairhope-Foley (-0.5 percent), Montgomery (-0.6 percent), Dothan (-0.8 percent), Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville (-0.9 percent), Tuscaloosa (-0.9 percent), Mobile (-1.7 percent), and Gadsden (-1.8 percent)."

---Alex Walsh, AL.com