{"id":1004189174,"date":"2017-08-31T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004189174"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:54:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:54:31","slug":"economy-watch-most-metros-enjoy-low-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-most-metros-enjoy-low-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy Watch: Most Metros Enjoy Low Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By D.C. Stribling, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004189184\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-9.40.49-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004189184\" data-attachment-id=\"1004189184\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-most-metros-enjoy-low-unemployment\/screen-shot-2017-08-31-at-9-40-49-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-9.40.49-AM.png\" data-orig-size=\"752,560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BLS 0717\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-9.40.49-AM.png?w=752\" class=\"wp-image-1004189184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-9.40.49-AM.png\" alt=\"Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics\" width=\"400\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-9.40.49-AM.png 752w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-9.40.49-AM.png?resize=300,223 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004189184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ahead of the monthly employment numbers on Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a separate report on Wednesday revealing that unemployment rates were lower in July than a year earlier in 340 of the 388 U.S. metropolitan areas, higher in 39 areas, and unchanged in nine areas.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-one metros had jobless rates of less than 3 percent and three had rates of 10 percent or higher. Payroll employment increased over the year in 336 metropolitan areas, decreased in 46 areas, and was unchanged in six areas.<\/p>\n<h2>Market Matters<\/h2>\n<p>In July, Bismarck, N.D., had the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/economy-watch-weekly-july-marks-good-month-for-job-growth\/\">lowest unemployment rate<\/a> at 1.9 percent, closely followed by Fargo, N.D., at 2 percent. Of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census population of 1 million or more, Denver-Aurora-Lakewood had the lowest unemployment rate in July, 2.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>El Centro, Calif., and Yuma, Ariz., suffered the highest unemployment rates in July, 24.2 percent and 23.8 percent, respectively. Cleveland-Elyria, Ohio, had the highest jobless rate among the large areas, at 6.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-three large areas had year-over-year unemployment rate decreases and eight had increases. The largest rate decrease occurred in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, Mich. (down 1.9 percentage points). The largest annual rate increase was suffered by Cleveland-Elyria, Ohio (up 1 percentage point).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 388 U.S. metro areas, 340 had unemployment rates that were lower in July than a year earlier, according to a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"featured_media":1004189184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23891,21742],"tags":[32766,32767],"class_list":["post-1004189174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-latest","tag-bureau-of-labor-statistics","tag-unemployment-rate"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Economy Watch: Most Metros Enjoy Low Unemployment - 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