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METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT -- OCTOBER 2009 [2 December 2009]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/metro.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/metro.pdf

[full-text, 21 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/metro.supp.toc.htm

 

 

Unemployment rates were higher in October than a year earlier in all

372 metropolitan areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported

today. Fifteen areas recorded jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent,

while 13 areas registered rates below 5.0 percent. The national unem-

ployment rate in October was 9.5 percent, not seasonally adjusted, up

from 6.1 percent a year earlier. Among the 369 metropolitan areas for

which nonfarm payroll employment were available, 361 areas reported

over-the-year decreases in employment and 8 reported increases.

 

Metropolitan Area Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)

 

In October, 124 metropolitan areas reported jobless rates of at least

10.0 percent, up from 13 areas a year earlier, while 75 areas posted

rates below 7.0 percent, down from 280 areas in October 2008. El Centro,

Calif., and neighboring Yuma, Ariz., continued to record the highest

unemployment rates, 30.0 and 23.5 percent, respectively. Among the 15

areas with jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent, 9 were located in

California and 3 were in Michigan. Bismarck, N.D., registered the low-

est unemployment rate in October, 2.8 percent, followed by Fargo, N.D.-

Minn., and Grand Forks, N.D.-Minn., 3.5 percent each. Overall, 138

areas recorded unemployment rates above the U.S. figure of 9.5 percent,

229 areas reported rates below it, and 5 areas had the same rate.

(See table 1.)

 

Detroit-Warren-Livonia, Mich., recorded the largest jobless rate in-

crease from October 2008 (+7.3 percentage points), followed by Rock-

ford, Ill. (+6.2 points). An additional 3 areas registered unemploy-

ment rate increases of 6.0 percentage points or more, and another 26

areas had increases of 5.0 to 5.9 points. While no metropolitan area

posted an unemployment rate decrease, five areas reported rate in-

creases of less than a full percentage point, the smallest of which

was in Manhattan, Kan. (+0.5 point).

 

Of the 49 metropolitan areas with a Census 2000 population of 1 million

or more, Detroit-Warren-Livonia, Mich., reported the highest unemploy-

ment rate in October, 16.7 percent. The large areas with the next high-

est rates were Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif., 14.6 percent,

and Las Vegas-Paradise, Nev., 13.0 percent. Fifteen additional large

areas posted rates of 10.0 percent or more. The large areas with the

lowest jobless rates in October were Washington-Arlington-Alexandria,

D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va., 6.2 percent, and Oklahoma City, Okla., and Virginia

Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, Va.-N.C., 6.5 percent each. All 49 large

areas registered over-the-year unemployment rate increases of at least

1.5 percentage points. Detroit-Warren-Livonia, Mich., had the largest

jobless rate increase from a year earlier (+7.3 percentage points). The

next largest rate increases occurred in Las Vegas-Paradise, Nev., and

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. (+5.2 percentage points each),

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif. (+5.1 points), and Birmingham-

Hoover, Ala. (+5.0 points).

 

AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....

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