August 30, 2023

The Baltimore metropolitan space recorded the bottom Jobless price in July, 1.7%, among the many 51 largest US Metro Areas with populations of 1 million or extra, the US Bureau for Labor Statistics reported Aug. 30.

Baltimore additionally registered the most important decline in jobless price amongst all giant metro areas, falling 1.7 proportion factors.

Las Vegas posted the best jobless price amongst giant metros throughout the identical interval at 6.1%. The most important proportion enhance occurred in California’s San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara space, which posted a rise of  0.9 of a proportion level to a 3.6% jobless price.

Amongst metro areas of all sizes, the bottom unemployment price in July was within the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, space at 1.4%. The following-lowest charges had been in Burlington, Vermont, at 1.5%, and Fast Metropolis, South Dakota, at 1.6%.

The metro space with the best jobless price was El Centro, California, at 17.7%.