Illinois and Nevada have largest declines in unemployment rate, September 2013 to September 2014
October 23, 2014
From September 2013 to September 2014, 26 states had statistically significant unemployment rate changes, all of which were decreases. The largest of these occurred in Illinois (where the unemployment rate decreased from 9.1 percent to 6.6 percent, a change of −2.5 percentage points) and Nevada (which had a decrease from 9.6 percent to 7.3 percent, a change of −2.3 points).
| State | Unemployment rate, September 2014 |
Over-the-year change, September 2013 to September 2014 |
Number of unemployed, September 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Illinois |
6.6% | -2.5 | 427,600 |
|
Nevada |
7.3 | -2.3 | 100,100 |
|
Colorado |
4.7 | -1.9 | 131,300 |
|
Rhode Island |
7.6 | -1.9 | 42,300 |
|
Ohio |
5.6 | -1.8 | 318,600 |
|
Indiana |
5.7 | -1.6 | 184,600 |
|
Kentucky |
6.7 | -1.6 | 134,100 |
|
Michigan |
7.2 | -1.6 | 342,500 |
|
Pennsylvania |
5.7 | -1.6 | 360,400 |
|
Arkansas |
6.2 | -1.5 | 81,000 |
|
California |
7.3 | -1.5 | 1,361,200 |
|
Idaho |
4.5 | -1.5 | 34,700 |
|
New Jersey |
6.5 | -1.4 | 294,400 |
|
Connecticut |
6.4 | -1.3 | 119,800 |
|
New York |
6.2 | -1.3 | 586,500 |
|
Massachusetts |
6.0 | -1.2 | 213,200 |
|
Washington |
5.7 | -1.2 | 198,300 |
|
Texas |
5.2 | -1.1 | 679,600 |
|
Wisconsin |
5.5 | -1.1 | 169,400 |
|
Montana |
4.6 | -1.0 | 23,900 |
|
North Carolina |
6.7 | -1.0 | 310,300 |
|
New Hampshire |
4.3 | -0.9 | 32,100 |
|
Florida |
6.1 | -0.8 | 589,600 |
|
Maine |
5.8 | -0.8 | 40,700 |
|
Minnesota |
4.1 | -0.8 | 122,100 |
|
Utah |
3.5 | -0.8 | 50,600 |
|
Note: Data are preliminary. |
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Both Colorado (where the unemployment rate declined from 6.6 percent to 4.7 percent) and Rhode Island (9.5 percent to 7.6 percent) had over-the-year changes of −1.9 percentage points. In Ohio, the unemployment rate changed by −1.8 percentage points from September 2013 to September 2014.
Georgia's unemployment rate in September 2014 was the highest among all of the states, 7.9 percent. Mississippi and the District of Columbia each had unemployment rates of 7.7 percent. The Dakotas had the lowest jobless rates, 2.8 percent in North Dakota and 3.4 percent in South Dakota. These rates were not appreciably different from those of a year earlier.
These data are from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics program. Data for the most recent month are preliminary. To learn more, see "Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — September 2014" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-14-1963.
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