Comparing metro area unemployment rates to the national rate of 5.6% in July 2015
September 04, 2015
In July 2015, total of 187 metro areas had unemployment rates below the U.S. figure of 5.6 percent. 185 areas had rates above it, and 15 areas had rates equal to that of the nation.
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Unemployment rates for metropolitan areas, not seasonally adjusted, July 2015 Metropolitan area Rate(p) Below, equal to, or above U.S. July 2015 unemployment rate United States
5.6 Bismarck, ND
2.3 Below Fargo, ND-MN
2.4 Below Lincoln, NE
2.5 Below Sioux Falls, SD
2.6 Below Ames, IA
2.7 Below Iowa City, IA
2.8 Below Burlington-South Burlington, VT
3.0 Below Urban Honolulu, HI
3.0 Below Grand Forks, ND-MN
3.1 Below Portsmouth, NH-ME NECTA
3.1 Below Billings, MT
3.2 Below Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
3.2 Below Mankato-North Mankato, MN
3.2 Below Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA
3.2 Below Portland-South Portland, ME
3.2 Below Rapid City, SD
3.2 Below Boulder, CO
3.3 Below Dubuque, IA
3.3 Below Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI
3.3 Below Madison, WI
3.3 Below Midland, TX
3.3 Below Rochester, MN
3.3 Below Amarillo, TX
3.4 Below Cheyenne, WY
3.4 Below Dover-Durham, NH-ME NECTA
3.4 Below Fort Collins, CO
3.4 Below Idaho Falls, ID
3.4 Below Austin-Round Rock, TX
3.5 Below Logan, UT-ID
3.5 Below Manchester, NH NECTA
3.5 Below Cedar Rapids, IA
3.6 Below Columbus, IN
3.6 Below Provo-Orem, UT
3.6 Below Sheboygan, WI
3.6 Below Sioux City, IA-NE-SD
3.6 Below Boise City, ID
3.7 Below Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
3.7 Below Missoula, MT
3.7 Below Salt Lake City, UT
3.7 Below St. Cloud, MN
3.7 Below Appleton, WI
3.8 Below Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
3.8 Below Lubbock, TX
3.8 Below Elkhart-Goshen, IN
3.9 Below Lewiston-Auburn, ME NECTA
3.9 Below Oklahoma City, OK
3.9 Below San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
3.9 Below Abilene, TX
4.0 Below College Station-Bryan, TX
4.0 Below Great Falls, MT
4.0 Below Green Bay, WI
4.0 Below La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN
4.0 Below Ogden-Clearfield, UT
4.0 Below Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA
4.0 Below Wausau, WI
4.0 Below Bangor, ME NECTA
4.1 Below Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
4.1 Below Eau Claire, WI
4.1 Below Fond du Lac, WI
4.1 Below Greeley, CO
4.1 Below Lewiston, ID-WA
4.1 Below Pocatello, ID
4.1 Below Columbus, OH
4.2 Below Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI
4.2 Below Sherman-Denison, TX
4.2 Below Charlottesville, VA
4.3 Below Coeur d'Alene, ID
4.3 Below Columbia, MO
4.3 Below Evansville, IN-KY
4.3 Below Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO
4.3 Below Lexington-Fayette, KY
4.3 Below Oshkosh-Neenah, WI
4.3 Below San Angelo, TX
4.3 Below San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
4.3 Below Victoria, TX
4.3 Below Casper, WY
4.4 Below Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN
4.4 Below Manhattan, KS
4.4 Below Napa, CA
4.4 Below St. George, UT
4.4 Below Wenatchee, WA
4.4 Below Winchester, VA-WV
4.4 Below Ann Arbor, MI
4.5 Below Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH NECTA
4.5 Below Fort Wayne, IN
4.5 Below Lawton, OK
4.5 Below Odessa, TX
4.5 Below San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA
4.5 Below Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
4.5 Below Staunton-Waynesboro, VA
4.5 Below Tulsa, OK
4.5 Below Waco, TX
4.5 Below Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN
4.6 Below Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL
4.6 Below Danbury, CT NECTA
4.6 Below Santa Rosa, CA
4.6 Below State College, PA
4.6 Below Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
4.6 Below Wichita Falls, TX
4.6 Below Barnstable Town, MA NECTA
4.7 Below Bloomington, IL
4.7 Below Gettysburg, PA
4.7 Below Glens Falls, NY
4.7 Below Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX
4.7 Below Ithaca, NY
4.7 Below Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN
4.7 Below Lancaster, PA
4.7 Below Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
4.8 Below Lawrence, KS
4.8 Below Roanoke, VA
4.8 Below Tyler, TX
4.8 Below Akron, OH
4.9 Below Colorado Springs, CO
4.9 Below Dayton, OH
4.9 Below Fairbanks, AK
4.9 Below Grand Island, NE
4.9 Below Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA
4.9 Below Killeen-Temple, TX
4.9 Below Kokomo, IN
4.9 Below Lima, OH
4.9 Below Owensboro, KY
4.9 Below San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande, CA
4.9 Below Springfield, IL
4.9 Below Champaign-Urbana, IL
5.0 Below Gainesville, FL
5.0 Below Harrisonburg, VA
5.0 Below Laredo, TX
5.0 Below Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA
5.0 Below Toledo, OH
5.0 Below Topeka, KS
5.0 Below Asheville, NC
5.1 Below Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA
5.1 Below Corpus Christi, TX
5.1 Below Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL
5.1 Below Duluth, MN-WI
5.1 Below Janesville-Beloit, WI
5.1 Below Lansing-East Lansing, MI
5.1 Below Lebanon, PA
5.1 Below Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR
5.1 Below Longview, TX
5.1 Below Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
5.1 Below Richmond, VA
5.1 Below South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI
5.1 Below Springfield, MO
5.1 Below Springfield, OH
5.1 Below Bowling Green, KY
5.2 Below Canton-Massillon, OH
5.2 Below Jefferson City, MO
5.2 Below Jonesboro, AR
5.2 Below Kalamazoo-Portage, MI
5.2 Below Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
5.2 Below Midland, MI
5.2 Below Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI
5.2 Below Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
5.2 Below Pittsfield, MA NECTA
5.2 Below Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC
5.2 Below Anchorage, AK
5.3 Below Joplin, MO
5.3 Below Kingston, NY
5.3 Below Lynchburg, VA
5.3 Below Mansfield, OH
5.3 Below Monroe, MI
5.3 Below North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL
5.3 Below Panama City, FL
5.3 Below Raleigh, NC
5.3 Below Salisbury, MD-DE
5.3 Below Worcester, MA-CT NECTA
5.3 Below Bloomington, IN
5.4 Below Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT NECTA
5.4 Below Chambersburg-Waynesboro, PA
5.4 Below Rochester, NY
5.4 Below San Diego-Carlsbad, CA
5.4 Below Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
5.4 Below Texarkana, TX-AR
5.4 Below York-Hanover, PA
5.4 Below Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
5.5 Below Corvallis, OR
5.5 Below El Paso, TX
5.5 Below Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY
5.5 Below Gainesville, GA
5.5 Below Kansas City, MO-KS
5.5 Below Lake Charles, LA
5.5 Below Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL
5.5 Below Reading, PA
5.5 Below St. Joseph, MO-KS
5.5 Below Tallahassee, FL
5.5 Below Utica-Rome, NY
5.5 Below Altoona, PA
5.6 Equal Bremerton-Silverdale, WA
5.6 Equal California-Lexington Park, MD
5.6 Equal Charleston-North Charleston, SC
5.6 Equal Cleveland-Elyria, OH
5.6 Equal Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL
5.6 Equal Dover, DE
5.6 Equal Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
5.6 Equal Houma-Thibodaux, LA
5.6 Equal Jackson, MS
5.6 Equal Jacksonville, FL
5.6 Equal New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
5.6 Equal Niles-Benton Harbor, MI
5.6 Equal Syracuse, NY
5.6 Equal Walla Walla, WA
5.6 Equal Baton Rouge, LA
5.7 Above Battle Creek, MI
5.7 Above Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, SC
5.7 Above Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV
5.7 Above Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA
5.7 Above Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
5.7 Above Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
5.7 Above St. Louis, MO-IL1
5.7 Above Trenton, NJ
5.7 Above Wichita, KS
5.7 Above Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
5.8 Above Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY
5.8 Above Cape Girardeau, MO-IL
5.8 Above Michigan City-La Porte, IN
5.8 Above Muncie, IN
5.8 Above New Haven, CT NECTA
5.8 Above Pittsburgh, PA
5.8 Above Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
5.8 Above Providence-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA
5.8 Above Auburn-Opelika, AL
5.9 Above Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA
5.9 Above Burlington, NC
5.9 Above Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
5.9 Above Erie, PA
5.9 Above Fort Smith, AR-OK
5.9 Above Grand Junction, CO
5.9 Above Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort, SC
5.9 Above Knoxville, TN
5.9 Above Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, FL
5.9 Above Norwich-New London-Westerly, CT-RI NECTA
5.9 Above Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA
5.9 Above Santa Fe, NM
5.9 Above Wilmington, NC
5.9 Above Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
6.0 Above Bay City, MI
6.0 Above Bellingham, WA
6.0 Above Binghamton, NY
6.0 Above Birmingham-Hoover, AL
6.0 Above Carbondale-Marion, IL
6.0 Above Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
6.0 Above Hot Springs, AR
6.0 Above Jackson, MI
6.0 Above Olympia-Tumwater, WA
6.0 Above Prescott, AZ
6.0 Above Pueblo, CO
6.0 Above Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA
6.0 Above Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
6.1 Above Columbia, SC
6.1 Above Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL
6.1 Above Elmira, NY
6.1 Above Huntsville, AL
6.1 Above Leominster-Gardner, MA NECTA
6.1 Above Morgantown, WV
6.1 Above Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL
6.1 Above Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
6.1 Above Savannah, GA
6.1 Above Springfield, MA-CT NECTA
6.1 Above Winston-Salem, NC
6.1 Above Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA
6.1 Above Bend-Redmond, OR
6.2 Above Hattiesburg, MS
6.2 Above Kankakee, IL
6.2 Above Peoria, IL
6.2 Above Punta Gorda, FL
6.2 Above Saginaw, MI
6.2 Above Tucson, AZ
6.2 Above Vallejo-Fairfield, CA
6.2 Above Watertown-Fort Drum, NY
6.2 Above Athens-Clarke County, GA
6.3 Above Chattanooga, TN-GA
6.3 Above Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
6.3 Above Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA
6.3 Above Muskegon, MI
6.3 Above Racine, WI
6.3 Above Reno, NV
6.3 Above Terre Haute, IN
6.3 Above Jacksonville, NC
6.4 Above Lafayette, LA
6.4 Above New Orleans-Metairie, LA
6.4 Above Salinas, CA
6.4 Above Williamsport, PA
6.4 Above Cleveland, TN
6.5 Above Greensboro-High Point, NC
6.5 Above Kennewick-Richland, WA
6.5 Above Port St. Lucie, FL
6.5 Above Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA
6.5 Above Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX
6.6 Above Clarksville, TN-KY
6.6 Above Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL
6.6 Above Montgomery, AL
6.6 Above Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA
6.6 Above Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC
6.6 Above New Bern, NC
6.6 Above Ocala, FL
6.6 Above Spartanburg, SC
6.6 Above Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA
6.6 Above Albuquerque, NM
6.7 Above Danville, IL
6.7 Above Gadsden, AL
6.7 Above Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS
6.7 Above Jackson, TN
6.7 Above Salem, OR
6.7 Above Tuscaloosa, AL
6.7 Above Alexandria, LA
6.8 Above Brunswick, GA
6.8 Above Decatur, AL
6.8 Above Eugene, OR
6.8 Above Flint, MI
6.8 Above Goldsboro, NC
6.8 Above Johnson City, TN
6.8 Above Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
6.8 Above Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton, PA
6.8 Above Yakima, WA
6.8 Above Dothan, AL
6.9 Above Hinesville, GA
6.9 Above Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH
6.9 Above Monroe, LA
6.9 Above Morristown, TN
6.9 Above Valdosta, GA
6.9 Above Warner Robins, GA
6.9 Above Waterbury, CT NECTA
6.9 Above Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
7.0 Above East Stroudsburg, PA
7.0 Above Greenville, NC
7.0 Above Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV
7.0 Above Macon, GA
7.0 Above Memphis, TN-MS-AR
7.0 Above Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC
7.1 Above Brownsville-Harlingen, TX
7.1 Above Charleston, WV
7.1 Above Cumberland, MD-WV
7.1 Above Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
7.1 Above Rockford, IL
7.1 Above Carson City, NV
7.2 Above Decatur, IL
7.2 Above Flagstaff, AZ
7.2 Above New Bedford, MA NECTA
7.2 Above Parkersburg-Vienna, WV
7.2 Above Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
7.2 Above Wheeling, WV-OH
7.2 Above Ocean City, NJ
7.3 Above Dalton, GA
7.4 Above Hammond, LA
7.4 Above The Villages, FL
7.4 Above Chico, CA
7.5 Above Columbus, GA-AL
7.5 Above Florence, SC
7.5 Above Johnstown, PA
7.5 Above Sumter, SC
7.5 Above Albany, OR
7.6 Above Rome, GA
7.6 Above Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL
7.7 Above Medford, OR
7.7 Above Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL
7.7 Above Longview, WA
7.8 Above Redding, CA
7.8 Above Farmington, NM
7.9 Above Mobile, AL
7.9 Above Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ
7.9 Above Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH
7.9 Above Albany, GA
8.0 Above Homosassa Springs, FL
8.0 Above Las Cruces, NM
8.0 Above Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL
8.1 Above McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
8.1 Above Fayetteville, NC
8.2 Above Pine Bluff, AR
8.3 Above Sebring, FL
8.3 Above Beckley, WV
8.4 Above Grants Pass, OR
8.6 Above Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ
8.7 Above Stockton-Lodi, CA
8.9 Above Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ
9.1 Above Rocky Mount, NC
9.1 Above Vineland-Bridgeton, NJ
9.3 Above Modesto, CA
9.4 Above Yuba City, CA
9.5 Above Fresno, CA
9.6 Above Hanford-Corcoran, CA
9.8 Above Madera, CA
9.9 Above Bakersfield, CA
10.0 Above Merced, CA
10.8 Above Visalia-Porterville, CA
11.7 Above El Centro, CA
24.2 Above Yuma, AZ
26.6 Above
Bismarck, North Dakota, had the lowest unemployment rate in July, 2.3 percent. Yuma, Arizona (26.6 percent), and El Centro, California (24.2 percent), had the highest unemployment rates.
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 July (3.5 percent). Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, California, had the highest jobless rate among the large areas (7.1 percent).
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 — July 2015” (HTML ) ( PDF ).
United States Department of Labor
