Just recently the national unemployment rate dropped down to 8.5%. However the national employment rate is just the nation wide average. Unemployment may be far higher or lower in your city. The unemployment rate is as low as 2.8% in parts of North Dakota and as high as 27% in El Centro California.
The BLS published the unemployment rates for major metropolitian areas as of Nov. 2011. Note that the data is not seasonally adjusted.
Here is a sample of the unemployment rates for various metropolitan areas across the USA.
| 1 | Bismarck, ND | 2.8% |
| 8 | Logan, UT-ID | 3.9 |
| 14 | Rochester, MN | 4.2 |
| 23 | Morgantown, WV | 4.9 |
| 34 | Ann Arbor, MI | 5.2 |
| 52 | Honolulu, HI | 5.7 |
| 72 | Abilene, TX | 6.2 |
| 76 | Fairbanks, AK | 6.3 |
| 96 | Baton Rouge, LA | 6.6 |
| 96 | Topeka, KS | 6.6 |
| 130 | Lewiston, ID-WA | 7 |
| 143 | Warner Robins, GA | 7.2 |
| 176 | Olympia, WA | 7.5 |
| 198 | Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN | 7.8 |
| 219 | Spokane, WA | 8.1 |
| 236 | New Haven, CT | 8.3 |
| 253 | Napa, CA | 8.6 |
| 266 | Winston-Salem, NC | 8.9 |
| 286 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL | 9.4 |
| 307 | Decatur, IL | 9.9 |
| 320 | Waterbury, CT | 10.2 |
| 334 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA | 10.7 |
| 349 | Dalton, GA | 11.8 |
| 366 | Stockton, CA | 15.5 |
| 371 | Yuma, AZ | 23.7 |
The full list on the BLS site has a total of 371 metropolitan areas so you can visit the BLS link to see the full list.
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