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Large metropolitan area unemployment rates, March 2015
May 06, 2015
Of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census population of 1 million or more, Austin-Round Rock, Texas, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, had the lowest unemployment rates in March 2015, at 3.3 percent each. Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, Nevada, had the highest jobless rate among the large areas, 7.2 percent.
Unemployment rates for metropolitan areas with populations of 1 million or more, March 2015
Unemployment rates for metropolitan areas with populations of 1 million or more, March 2015
Area
Percent
Austin-Round Rock, TX
3.3
Oklahoma City, OK
3.3
Salt Lake City, UT
3.5
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
3.7
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
4.0
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
4.0
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX
4.2
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA
4.2
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
4.2
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
4.3
Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH NECTA
4.4
Columbus, OH
4.4
Raleigh, NC
4.5
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
4.6
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
4.6
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
4.7
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN
4.8
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
4.8
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
4.9
Birmingham-Hoover, AL
5.1
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
5.1
San Diego-Carlsbad, CA
5.1
Richmond, VA
5.2
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
5.3
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
5.3
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
5.3
Jacksonville, FL
5.4
Kansas City, MO-KS
5.4
Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN
5.5
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
5.5
Pittsburgh, PA
5.5
Rochester, NY
5.5
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC
5.5
Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI
5.6
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
5.6
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
5.7
Cleveland-Elyria, OH
5.7
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
5.9
Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY
5.9
St. Louis, MO-IL
5.9
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
6.0
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
6.0
Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA
6.0
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
6.2
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
6.4
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA
6.5
Memphis, TN-MS-AR
6.5
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
6.5
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
6.6
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA
6.8
Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV
7.2
Fifty of the large areas had unemployment rate decreases from March 2014 to March 2015, the largest of which occurred in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, Michigan (-3.4 percentage points). New Orleans-Metairie, Louisiana, had the only over-the-year unemployment rate increase (+0.7 percentage point).
These data are from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics program and are not seasonally adjusted. Data for the most recent month are preliminary and subject to revision. To learn more, see "Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — March 2015" (HTML) (PDF).