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All large metro areas had over-the-year decreases in unemployment rates, August 2022
October 05, 2022
In August 2022, of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census population of 1 million or more, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minneapolis-Wisconsin, and Salt Lake City, Utah, had the lowest jobless rates, at 2.1 percent each. Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, Nevada, had the highest rate, at 5.7 percent.
Unemployment rates for large metropolitan areas, August 2022
Unemployment rates for large metropolitan areas, August 2022
Metropolitan area
Rate
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
2.1%
Salt Lake City, UT
2.1
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
2.4
Birmingham-Hoover, AL
2.6
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
2.6
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
2.7
Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN
2.8
Jacksonville, FL
2.8
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
2.8
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA
2.8
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
2.9
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
3.0
Austin-Round Rock, TX
3.0
Kansas City, MO-KS
3.1
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
3.1
Oklahoma City, OK
3.1
Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH
3.2
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
3.3
Raleigh, NC
3.3
St. Louis, MO-IL
3.3
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
3.4
San Diego-Carlsbad, CA
3.4
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
3.5
Richmond, VA
3.5
Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA
3.5
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
3.5
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
3.6
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC
3.6
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
3.6
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
3.7
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN
3.8
Columbus, OH
3.8
Rochester, NY
3.8
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
3.8
Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI
3.9
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
3.9
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
4.0
Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY
4.1
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
4.2
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
4.2
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
4.3
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT
4.4
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
4.5
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
4.5
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX
4.6
Cleveland-Elyria, OH
4.7
Memphis, TN-MS-AR
4.7
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
4.8
Pittsburgh, PA
4.8
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
4.9
Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV
5.7
All 51 large areas had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases, the largest of which was in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California, (−3.7 percentage points). The smallest rate decreases occurred in Indianapolis Carmel-Anderson, Indiana, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (−0.3 percentage point each).
United States Department of Labor
