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Austin-Round Rock, Texas, has lowest unemployment rate among large metro areas in June 2015
August 04, 2015
Of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census population of 1 million or more, Austin-Round Rock, Texas, had the lowest unemployment rate in June 2015 at 3.3 percent. Salt Lake City, Utah, had the second-lowest unemployment rate at 3.6 percent.
Unemployment rates in large metropolitan areas, not seasonally adjusted, June 2015
4.5%
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Unemployment rates in large metropolitan areas, not seasonally adjusted, June 2015
Metropolitan Area
Rate
Austin-Round Rock, TX
3.3
Salt Lake City, UT
3.6
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
3.8
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
3.8
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
4.0
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
4.1
Columbus, OH
4.2
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA
4.2
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
4.3
Oklahoma City, OK
4.3
Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH
4.5
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX
4.5
Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN
4.5
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
4.5
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN
4.6
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
4.7
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
4.8
San Diego-Carlsbad, CA
5.0
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
5.1
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
5.1
Raleigh, NC
5.1
Rochester, NY
5.1
Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY
5.3
Kansas City, MO-KS
5.3
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
5.3
Richmond, VA
5.3
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
5.3
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT
5.4
Jacksonville, FL
5.4
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
5.4
Pittsburgh, PA
5.4
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
5.4
Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI
5.5
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC
5.5
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
5.6
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
5.6
St. Louis, MO-IL
5.6
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
5.7
Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA
5.7
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
5.9
Birmingham-Hoover, AL
5.9
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
5.9
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
6.0
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
6.0
Cleveland-Elyria, OH
6.4
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
6.5
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
6.6
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
6.6
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
6.7
Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV
7.0
Memphis, TN-MS-AR
7.0
Note: Large metropolitan areas have a population of 1 million or more in the 2010 Census.
Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, Nevada, and Memphis, Tennessee-Mississippi-Arkansas, had the highest jobless rates among the large areas, 7.0 percent each. Fifty large areas had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases and one had no change. The largest rate decline occurred in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, Michigan (-2.3 percentage points).
Among all metropolitan areas, unemployment rates were lower in June than a year earlier in 351 of the 387 metropolitan areas, higher in 28 areas, and unchanged in 8 areas.
These data are from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics program. Data for the most recent month are preliminary and may be revised. The data are not seasonally adjusted. For more information, see “Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment—June 2015” (HTML) (PDF).
United States Department of Labor
