For release 10:00 a.m. (EST) Tuesday, February 6, 2018 USDL-18-0205 

Technical information: 

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Media contact: (202) 691-5902 • PressOffice@bls.gov 

METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT — DECEMBER 2017

Unemployment rates were lower in December than a year earlier in 314 of the 388 metropolitan areas, 

higher in 61 areas, and unchanged in 13 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. 

Seventy-one areas had jobless rates of less than 3.0 percent and four areas had rates of at least 10.0 

percent. Nonfarm payroll employment increased over the year in 316 metropolitan areas, decreased in 

60 areas, and was unchanged in 12 areas. The national unemployment rate in December was 3.9 percent, 

not seasonally adjusted, down from 4.5 percent a year earlier. 

Metropolitan Area Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)

In December, Ames, IA, had the lowest unemployment rate, 1.5 percent, followed by Urban Honolulu, 

HI, 1.7 percent. El Centro, CA, and Yuma, AZ, had the highest unemployment rates, 17.9 percent and 

15.7 percent, respectively. A total of 190 areas had December jobless rates below the U.S. rate of 3.9 

percent, 183 areas had rates above it, and 15 areas had rates equal to that of the nation. (See table 1 and 

map 1.) 

El Centro, CA, had the largest over-the-year unemployment rate decrease in December (-3.0 percentage 

points). An additional 120 areas had rate declines of at least 1.0 percentage point. The largest over-theyear rate increase occurred in Fairbanks, AK (+0.9 percentage point).

Of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census population of 1 million or more, Nashville-Davidson—

Murfreesboro—Franklin, TN, had the lowest unemployment rate in December, 2.4 percent. BuffaloCheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY, had the highest jobless rate among the large areas, 5.5 percent. Fortyfour large areas had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases, six had increases, and one had no 

change. The largest rate decrease occurred in Birmingham-Hoover, AL (-2.4 percentage points). The 

largest over-the-year rate increase was in Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY (+0.4 percentage 

point). 

Metropolitan Division Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

Eleven of the most populous metropolitan areas are made up of 38 metropolitan divisions, which are 

essentially separately identifiable employment centers. In December, San Francisco-Redwood CitySouth San Francisco, CA, had the lowest unemployment rate among the divisions, 2.2 percent, closely 
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followed by San Rafael, CA, 2.3 percent. Tacoma-Lakewood, WA, had the highest division rate, 5.4 

percent. (See table 2.)

In December, 22 metropolitan divisions had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases, 12 had 

increases, and 4 had no change. The largest rate declines occurred in Elgin, IL; Gary, IN; and Lake 

County-Kenosha County, IL-WI (-1.1 percentage points each). The largest over-the-year jobless rate 

increase occurred in Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem, MA-NH (+0.4 percentage point). 

Metropolitan Area Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In December, 316 metropolitan areas had over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment, 60 

had decreases, and 12 had no change. The largest over-the-year employment increases occurred in 

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (+91,700), New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA (+83,600), and 

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (+78,300). The largest over-the-year percentage gains in 

employment occurred in St. George, UT (+5.8 percent), Elkhart-Goshen, IN (+5.7 percent), and AthensClarke County, GA (+5.4 percent). (See table 3 and map 2.) 

The largest over-the-year decrease in employment occurred in Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, 

VA-NC (-7,100), followed by Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY (-4,600), and Rochester, NY 

(-3,500). The largest over-the-year percentage decrease in employment occurred in Cape Girardeau, 

MO-IL (-5.4 percent), followed by Grand Forks, ND-MN (-3.2 percent), and Elmira, NY, and Michigan 

City-La Porte, IN (-2.6 percent each).

Over the year, nonfarm employment rose in 47 of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census 

population of 1 million or more and fell in 4. The largest over-the-year percentage increases in 

employment in these large metropolitan areas occurred in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL (+3.8 

percent), Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (+3.4 percent), and San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX 

(+3.2 percent). The over-the-year percentage decreases occurred in Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport 

News, VA-NC (-0.9 percent), Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY (-0.8 percent), Rochester, NY 

(-0.6 percent), and New Orleans-Metairie, LA (-0.4 percent). 

Metropolitan Division Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In December, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 36 of the 38 metropolitan divisions over the 

year and fell in 2. The largest over-the-year increase in employment among the metropolitan divisions 

occurred in New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ (+84,200), followed by Dallas-Plano-Irving, 

TX (+61,800), and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA (+54,700). The over-the-year decreases 

occurred in Newark, NJ-PA (-9,300), and Gary, IN (-7,100). (See table 4.) 

The largest over-the-year percentage increases occurred in Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town, 

MA-NH, and Tacoma-Lakewood, WA (+3.6 percent each), followed by Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, 

FL (+3.0 percent). The over-the-year percentage decreases occurred in Gary, IN (-2.5 percent), and 

Newark, NJ-PA (-0.8 percent). 

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The Regional and State Unemployment 2017 Annual Averages news release is scheduled to be 

released on Tuesday, February 27, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. (EST). The State Employment and 

Unemployment news release for January 2018 is scheduled to be released on Monday, March 12, 
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2018, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT). The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment news release 

for January 2018 is scheduled to be released on Friday, March 16, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT). 

Upcoming Changes to Local Area Unemployment Statistics Data 

Effective with the release of Regional and State Unemployment 2017 Annual Averages on Tuesday, 

February 27, 2018, the civilian labor force and unemployment data for census regions and divisions and 

all states, the District of Columbia, and the modeled substate areas presented in tables 1 and 2 of this 

news release will be revised from 2013 to 2017 to incorporate updated inputs, new population controls, 

and reestimation of models. Civilian labor force and unemployment estimates for all other metropolitan 

areas and metropolitan divisions subsequently will be revised to reflect updated inputs and adjustment to 

the new statewide estimates. These revised estimates will be published in conjunction with the March 

2018 State Employment and Unemployment news release on Friday, April 20, 2018. 

Upcoming Changes to Current Employment Statistics Data

Effective with the release of January 2018 estimates on March 12, 2018, all nonfarm payroll 

employment estimates for states and areas presented in tables 3 and 4 of this news release will be 

adjusted to 2017 benchmark levels. 

Also effective with the release of January 2018 estimates, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) 

program will convert to concurrent seasonal adjustment, which uses all available estimates, including 

those for the current month, in developing seasonal factors. Currently, the CES program develops 

seasonal factors once a year during the annual benchmark process. For more information on concurrent 

seasonal adjustment in the CES State and Area program, see www.bls.gov/sae/saeconcurrent.htm. 

Not seasonally adjusted data beginning with April 2016 and seasonally adjusted data beginning with 

January 2013 are subject to revision. Some seasonally adjusted series may be revised back to 1990. 

Conversion to the 2017 North American Industry Classification System 

With the release of January 2018 data on March 12, 2018, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) 

survey will revise the basis for industry classification from the 2012 North American Industry 

Classification System (NAICS) to the 2017 NAICS for all states and metropolitan areas. 

The conversion to the 2017 NAICS will result in minor revisions reflecting content and coding changes 

within the retail trade and information sectors. Several industry titles and descriptions also will be 

updated. Details of new, discontinued, and combined industries due to the 2017 NAICS updates, as well 

as changes due to the annual benchmarking process, will be available on March 12, 2018. 

For more information on the 2017 NAICS, see www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/. 
Technical Note

This release presents civilian labor force and unemployment 

data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) 

program (tables 1 and 2) for 388 metropolitan statistical areas 

and metropolitan New England City and Town Areas 

(NECTAs), plus 7 areas in Puerto Rico. Estimates for 38 

metropolitan and NECTA divisions also are presented. 

Nonfarm payroll employment estimates from the Current 

Employment Statistics (CES) program (tables 3 and 4) are 

provided for the same areas. State estimates were previously 

published in the news release State Employment and 

Unemployment, and are republished in this release for ease of 

reference. The LAUS and CES programs are both federal-state 

cooperative endeavors.

Civilian labor force and unemployment—from the 

LAUS program 

Definitions. The civilian labor force and unemployment 

data are based on the same concepts and definitions as those 

used for the official national estimates obtained from the 

Current Population Survey (CPS), a sample survey of 

households that is conducted for the Bureau of Labor Statistics 

(BLS) by the U.S. Census Bureau. The LAUS program 

measures employed persons and unemployed persons on a 

place-of-residence basis. The universe for each is the civilian 

noninstitutional population 16 years of age and older. 

Employed persons are those who did any work at all for pay or 

profit in the reference week (typically the week including the 

12th of the month) or worked 15 hours or more without pay in 

a family business or farm, plus those not working who had a 

job from which they were temporarily absent, whether or not 

paid, for such reasons as labor-management dispute, illness, or 

vacation. Unemployed persons are those who were not 

employed during the reference week (based on the definition 

above), had actively looked for a job sometime in the 4-week 

period ending with the reference week, and were currently 

available for work; persons on layoff expecting recall need not 

be looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The civilian

labor force is the sum of employed and unemployed persons. 

The unemployment rate is the number of unemployed as a 

percent of the civilian labor force. 

Method of estimation. Estimates for states, the District 

of Columbia, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale 

metropolitan division, and New York City are produced using 

time-series models with real-time benchmarking to national 

CPS totals. Model-based estimates are also produced for the

following areas and their respective balances: the ChicagoNaperville-Arlington Heights, IL Metropolitan Division; 

Cleveland-Elyria, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area; DetroitWarren-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area; MiamiMiami Beach-Kendall, FL Metropolitan Division; and SeattleBellevue-Everett, WA Metropolitan Division. Modeling 

improves the statistical basis of the estimation for these areas 

and provides important tools for analysis, such as measures of 

errors and seasonally adjusted series. For all other substate 

areas in this release, estimates are prepared through indirect 

estimation procedures using a building-block approach. 

Estimates of employed persons, which are based largely on 

“place of work” estimates from the CES program, are adjusted 

to refer to place of residence as used in the CPS. 

Unemployment estimates are aggregates of persons previously 

employed in industries covered by state unemployment 

insurance (UI) laws and entrants to the labor force from the 

CPS. The substate estimates of employment and 

unemployment, which geographically exhaust the entire state, 

are adjusted proportionally to ensure that they add to the 

independently estimated model-based area totals. A detailed 

description of the estimation procedures is available from BLS 

upon request.

Annual revisions. Civilian labor force and 

unemployment data shown for the prior year reflect 

adjustments made at the beginning of each year, usually 

implemented with the issuance of January estimates. The 

adjusted model-based estimates typically reflect updated 

population data from the U.S. Census Bureau, any revisions in 

other input data sources, and model re-estimation. All substate 

estimates then are re-estimated using updated inputs and 

adjusted to add to the revised model-based totals. In early 

2015, a new generation of time-series models was

implemented, resulting in the replacement of data back to the 

series beginnings. At the same time, enhancements were made

to the substate estimation methodology, and more timely inputs 

from the American Community Survey were incorporated.

Employment—from the CES program 

Definitions. Employment data refer to persons on 

establishment payrolls who receive pay for any part of the pay 

period that includes the 12th of the month. Persons are counted 

at their place of work rather than at their place of residence; 

those appearing on more than one payroll are counted on each 

payroll. Industries are classified on the basis of their principal 

activity in accordance with the 2012 version of the North 

American Industry Classification System. 

Method of estimation. CES State and Area employment 

data are produced using several estimation procedures. Where 

possible these data are produced using a "weighted link 

relative" estimation technique in which a ratio of current-month 

weighted employment to that of the previous-month weighted 

employment is computed from a sample of establishments 

reporting for both months. The estimates of employment for the 

current month are then obtained by multiplying these ratios by 

the previous month’s employment estimates. The weighted link 

relative technique is utilized for data series where the sample 

size meets certain statistical criteria.

For some employment series, the sample of 

establishments is very small or highly variable. In these cases, 
a model-based approach is used in estimation. These models 

use the direct sample estimates (described above), combined 

with forecasts of historical (benchmarked) data to decrease 

volatility in estimation. Two different models (Fay-Herriot 

Model and Small Domain Model) are used depending on the 

industry level being estimated. For more detailed information 

about each model, refer to the BLS Handbook of Methods.

Annual revisions. Employment estimates are adjusted 

annually to a complete count of jobs, called benchmarks, 

derived principally from tax reports that are submitted by 

employers who are covered under state unemployment 

insurance (UI) laws. The benchmark information is used to 

adjust the monthly estimates between the new benchmark and 

the preceding one and also to establish the level of employment 

for the new benchmark month. Thus, the benchmarking process 

establishes the level of employment, and the sample is used to 

measure the month-to-month changes in the level for the 

subsequent months. 

Seasonal adjustment. Payroll employment data are 

seasonally adjusted for states, metropolitan areas, and 

metropolitan divisions at the total nonfarm level. For states, 

data are seasonally adjusted at the supersector level as well. 

Revisions to historical data for the most recent 5 years are made 

once a year, coincident with annual benchmark adjustments.

Reliability of the estimates

The estimates presented in this release are based on 

sample surveys, administrative data, and modeling and, thus, 

are subject to sampling and other types of errors. Sampling 

error is a measure of sampling variability—that is, variation 

that occurs by chance because a sample rather than the entire 

population is surveyed. Survey data also are subject to 

nonsampling errors, such as those which can be introduced into 

the data collection and processing operations. Estimates not 

directly derived from sample surveys are subject to additional 

errors resulting from the specific estimation processes used. 

The sums of individual items may not always equal the totals 

shown in the same tables because of rounding. 

Civilian labor force and unemployment estimates.

Measures of sampling error are not available for metropolitan 

areas or metropolitan divisions. Model-based error measures 

for states are available on the BLS website at 

www.bls.gov/lau/lastderr.htm. Measures of nonsampling error 

are not available for the areas contained in this release. 

Information on recent data revisions for states and local areas 

is available online at www.bls.gov/lau/launews1.htm.

Employment estimates. Measures of sampling error for 

the total private employment series are available for 

metropolitan areas and metropolitan divisions at 

www.bls.gov/sae/790stderr.htm. Measures of sampling error 

for more detailed series at the area and division level are 

available upon request. Measures of sampling error for states 

down to the supersector level are available on the BLS website 

at www.bls.gov/sae/790stderr.htm. Measures of nonsampling 

error are not available for the areas contained in this release.

Information on recent benchmark revisions is available online

at www.bls.gov/sae/benchmark2017.pdf. 

Area definitions

The substate area data published in this release reflect the 

delineations issued by the U.S. Office of Management and 

Budget on July 15, 2015. Data reflect New England City and 

Town Area (NECTA) definitions, rather than county-based 

definitions, in the six New England States. A detailed list of the 

geographic definitions is available online at 

www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. 

Additional information

Estimates of unadjusted and seasonally adjusted civilian

labor force and unemployment data for states and seven 

substate areas are available in the news release State 

Employment and Unemployment. Estimates of civilian labor 

force and unemployment for all states, metropolitan areas, 

counties, cities with a population of 25,000 or more, and other 

areas used in the administration of various federal economic 

assistance programs are available on the Internet at 

www.bls.gov/lau/. Employment data from the CES program 

are available on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/sae/. 

Information in this release will be made available to 

sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 

691-5200; Federal Relay Service: (800) 877-8339.

 
LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area

State and area

Civilian labor force Unemployed

November December Number Percent of labor force

2016 2017 2016 2017p

November December November December

2016 2017 2016 2017p 2016 2017 2016 2017p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,184,641 2,173,135 2,180,260 2,160,961 123,834 77,187 129,295 73,598 5.7 3.6 5.9 3.4

Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . 45,659 45,446 45,697 45,223 2,893 1,836 3,060 1,749 6.3 4.0 6.7 3.9

Auburn-Opelika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,066 75,968 74,173 75,399 3,575 2,349 3,787 2,186 4.8 3.1 5.1 2.9

Birmingham-Hoover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539,676 532,569 539,602 530,959 28,519 17,276 29,510 16,247 5.3 3.2 5.5 3.1

Daphne-Fairhope-Foley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,507 91,565 88,991 90,680 4,690 3,012 5,005 2,968 5.2 3.3 5.6 3.3

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,962 69,297 68,926 68,927 3,817 2,330 3,946 2,235 5.5 3.4 5.7 3.2

Dothan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,866 62,148 62,734 61,332 3,539 2,292 3,715 2,188 5.6 3.7 5.9 3.6

Florence-Muscle Shoals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,385 66,330 67,008 65,830 4,129 2,491 4,358 2,461 6.1 3.8 6.5 3.7

Gadsden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,153 44,134 44,184 44,114 2,500 1,592 2,579 1,513 5.7 3.6 5.8 3.4

Huntsville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217,325 219,896 216,854 218,915 10,723 6,789 11,090 6,359 4.9 3.1 5.1 2.9

Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186,597 182,477 186,248 182,216 12,541 7,836 13,169 7,627 6.7 4.3 7.1 4.2

Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171,965 170,309 171,896 170,194 9,264 5,953 9,675 5,674 5.4 3.5 5.6 3.3

Tuscaloosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,225 114,782 113,924 113,487 6,313 3,900 6,677 3,618 5.5 3.4 5.9 3.2

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356,778 359,189 355,793 358,213 23,006 25,504 23,311 26,146 6.4 7.1 6.6 7.3

Anchorage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204,644 206,119 205,097 206,295 11,731 13,056 11,788 13,246 5.7 6.3 5.7 6.4

Fairbanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,537 46,681 46,043 46,442 2,612 2,952 2,642 3,063 5.6 6.3 5.7 6.6

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,265,507 3,332,881 3,261,413 3,338,531 155,867 143,337 152,384 152,125 4.8 4.3 4.7 4.6

Flagstaff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,746 75,047 73,675 74,381 4,096 3,269 4,423 3,720 5.5 4.4 6.0 5.0

Lake Havasu City-Kingman. . . . . . . . . . . . 80,851 82,137 79,723 81,829 4,705 4,194 4,691 4,624 5.8 5.1 5.9 5.7

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,266,099 2,323,379 2,267,300 2,325,098 93,871 86,543 91,917 91,701 4.1 3.7 4.1 3.9

Prescott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,061 101,054 99,101 100,289 4,441 4,049 4,336 4,260 4.4 4.0 4.4 4.2

Sierra Vista-Douglas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,916 51,112 49,990 51,129 2,709 2,503 2,668 2,644 5.4 4.9 5.3 5.2

Tucson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475,587 474,627 471,747 476,914 21,019 19,069 20,577 20,140 4.4 4.0 4.4 4.2

Yuma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,811 97,009 92,947 99,001 15,383 15,163 14,063 15,510 16.8 15.6 15.1 15.7

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,334,504 1,359,008 1,327,109 1,341,053 45,836 45,158 50,559 48,860 3.4 3.3 3.8 3.6

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers. . . . . . . . . 266,181 275,724 262,250 269,533 6,613 6,966 6,952 7,296 2.5 2.5 2.7 2.7

Fort Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,573 121,636 119,853 119,998 5,001 4,691 5,159 4,894 4.1 3.9 4.3 4.1

Hot Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,108 39,937 39,037 39,467 1,556 1,446 1,711 1,556 4.0 3.6 4.4 3.9

Jonesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,303 63,966 61,919 62,890 1,796 1,808 1,981 1,909 2.9 2.8 3.2 3.0

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway. . . . 346,511 353,921 345,345 350,792 10,773 10,668 11,532 11,822 3.1 3.0 3.3 3.4

Pine Bluff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,730 35,717 35,564 35,130 1,613 1,614 1,812 1,726 4.5 4.5 5.1 4.9

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,157,621 19,344,853 19,098,452 19,286,476 963,869 776,409 957,110 804,575 5.0 4.0 5.0 4.2

Bakersfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385,809 384,286 382,246 380,034 35,968 27,679 38,829 32,645 9.3 7.2 10.2 8.6

Chico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,513 103,365 102,988 102,808 6,020 4,779 6,323 5,246 5.8 4.6 6.1 5.1

El Centro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,747 75,096 75,157 73,366 17,495 15,310 15,694 13,105 22.8 20.4 20.9 17.9

Fresno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443,188 442,559 440,850 446,333 40,921 33,243 41,467 36,171 9.2 7.5 9.4 8.1

Hanford-Corcoran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,023 56,136 55,927 56,021 5,313 4,207 5,728 4,731 9.5 7.5 10.2 8.4

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . 6,673,583 6,765,132 6,647,478 6,736,770 303,397 261,014 293,940 259,723 4.5 3.9 4.4 3.9

Madera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,689 60,074 61,015 62,067 5,301 4,056 5,701 4,686 8.9 6.8 9.3 7.5

Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,188 113,309 114,574 113,324 10,698 8,689 12,301 10,482 9.4 7.7 10.7 9.2

Modesto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243,972 245,257 243,650 244,346 19,077 15,098 19,949 16,601 7.8 6.2 8.2 6.8

Napa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,397 73,286 70,914 71,761 3,134 2,393 3,292 2,587 4.3 3.3 4.6 3.6

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. . . . . . . 429,666 432,820 429,340 431,380 21,526 16,495 20,671 16,603 5.0 3.8 4.8 3.8

Redding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,927 76,182 74,380 75,690 4,692 3,525 4,868 3,857 6.3 4.6 6.5 5.1

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. . . . . . 2,010,402 2,044,553 2,009,477 2,046,920 109,081 84,712 103,319 83,984 5.4 4.1 5.1 4.1

Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade. . . 1,075,379 1,083,999 1,071,834 1,083,992 52,279 39,858 51,644 41,327 4.9 3.7 4.8 3.8

Salinas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219,341 217,364 210,220 207,480 14,315 11,653 20,758 18,243 6.5 5.4 9.9 8.8

San Diego-Carlsbad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,576,122 1,584,622 1,569,145 1,576,942 68,236 52,123 64,919 51,507 4.3 3.3 4.1 3.3

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . 2,555,634 2,584,222 2,557,905 2,580,414 90,096 68,645 85,906 69,209 3.5 2.7 3.4 2.7

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. . . . . . . 1,061,907 1,072,042 1,060,493 1,074,980 38,023 28,803 36,221 29,013 3.6 2.7 3.4 2.7

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo

Grande. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,751 141,135 137,288 138,228 5,461 4,091 5,396 4,220 3.9 2.9 3.9 3.1

Santa Cruz-Watsonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,630 143,629 142,466 142,193 8,810 7,396 10,710 9,264 6.1 5.1 7.5 6.5

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . 216,027 218,283 214,659 215,360 10,264 8,093 11,587 9,472 4.8 3.7 5.4 4.4

Santa Rosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257,996 260,142 259,109 259,267 9,528 7,337 9,412 7,359 3.7 2.8 3.6 2.8

Stockton-Lodi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317,983 317,014 317,457 317,858 24,296 19,397 24,858 20,993 7.6 6.1 7.8 6.6

Vallejo-Fairfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208,843 209,498 208,152 208,691 10,690 8,217 10,612 8,462 5.1 3.9 5.1 4.1

Visalia-Porterville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201,086 201,582 203,316 201,920 21,481 17,872 23,200 20,462 10.7 8.9 11.4 10.1

Yuba City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,322 72,580 73,578 72,602 6,264 5,019 6,950 5,850 8.5 6.9 9.4 8.1

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,899,265 3,028,874 2,892,195 3,038,542 78,408 87,732 78,247 92,411 2.7 2.9 2.7 3.0

Boulder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182,598 191,601 181,547 191,515 3,903 4,733 3,896 4,967 2.1 2.5 2.1 2.6

Colorado Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328,697 341,105 326,501 340,637 10,041 11,376 10,071 12,025 3.1 3.3 3.1 3.5

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,546,763 1,609,608 1,541,096 1,613,027 39,627 44,963 39,728 47,422 2.6 2.8 2.6 2.9

Fort Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190,044 199,959 188,247 199,128 4,239 4,906 4,299 5,047 2.2 2.5 2.3 2.5

Grand Junction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,942 73,096 70,993 73,036 3,027 2,727 3,157 3,151 4.2 3.7 4.4 4.3

Greeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,979 159,312 149,679 159,463 3,968 4,177 3,990 4,379 2.6 2.6 2.7 2.7

Pueblo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,428 75,719 73,107 75,631 3,083 3,352 2,958 3,570 4.2 4.4 4.0 4.7

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,882,158 1,898,288 1,875,808 1,883,974 73,411 81,972 73,548 74,080 3.9 4.3 3.9 3.9

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk. . . . . . . . . . . 462,836 468,192 462,999 463,697 18,024 20,003 18,020 17,832 3.9 4.3 3.9 3.8

Danbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,784 107,660 107,401 107,608 3,304 3,600 3,476 3,319 3.1 3.3 3.2 3.1

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. . . . 614,128 618,049 610,370 614,333 23,735 27,007 23,881 24,507 3.9 4.4 3.9 4.0

New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323,426 326,668 320,742 323,041 12,605 14,095 12,317 12,540 3.9 4.3 3.8 3.9

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area — Continued

State and area

Civilian labor force Unemployed

November December Number Percent of labor force

2016 2017 2016 2017p

November December November December

2016 2017 2016 2017p 2016 2017 2016 2017p

Connecticut - Continued

Norwich-New London-Westerly. . . . . . . . . 141,445 140,649 141,064 140,161 5,740 6,014 5,753 5,626 4.1 4.3 4.1 4.0

Waterbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,239 111,454 109,752 110,440 5,423 6,026 5,349 5,515 4.9 5.4 4.9 5.0

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470,281 474,126 470,318 473,668 18,029 19,531 18,141 19,378 3.8 4.1 3.9 4.1

Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,655 77,630 77,345 77,671 3,113 3,344 3,128 3,261 4.0 4.3 4.0 4.2

Salisbury1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180,278 182,507 179,060 182,711 10,097 10,291 11,075 11,611 5.6 5.6 6.2 6.4

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394,454 401,650 392,765 400,550 22,343 23,177 21,456 20,987 5.7 5.8 5.5 5.2

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. . . . . . . 3,333,272 3,382,566 3,322,087 3,364,877 119,213 122,321 115,190 111,207 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.3

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,927,342 10,082,256 9,909,607 10,062,570 473,563 387,633 467,212 368,312 4.8 3.8 4.7 3.7

Cape Coral-Fort Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331,020 328,280 331,666 330,332 15,057 11,882 14,585 11,127 4.5 3.6 4.4 3.4

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. . . . 121,209 123,206 119,508 121,416 4,928 3,857 4,892 3,681 4.1 3.1 4.1 3.0

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292,027 295,842 289,551 295,621 15,183 11,964 14,815 11,326 5.2 4.0 5.1 3.8

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,947 143,597 139,882 142,149 5,938 4,992 5,775 4,558 4.2 3.5 4.1 3.2

Homosassa Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,511 46,951 47,266 46,592 3,166 2,504 3,142 2,502 6.7 5.3 6.6 5.4

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736,685 752,173 736,680 749,415 34,457 27,153 33,268 25,492 4.7 3.6 4.5 3.4

Lakeland-Winter Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287,885 293,234 287,843 292,941 16,060 12,692 15,541 11,930 5.6 4.3 5.4 4.1

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,096,237 3,144,052 3,089,811 3,143,864 148,763 128,173 150,855 123,806 4.8 4.1 4.9 3.9

Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island. . . . . . . . 168,151 170,756 169,079 171,663 8,021 6,624 7,615 6,109 4.8 3.9 4.5 3.6

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton. . . . . . . . . 354,410 365,109 354,821 364,464 15,979 12,627 15,495 11,843 4.5 3.5 4.4 3.2

Ocala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134,337 135,079 134,249 134,108 7,727 6,023 7,534 5,738 5.8 4.5 5.6 4.3

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford. . . . . . . . . . . 1,264,681 1,296,801 1,262,321 1,298,492 55,813 44,962 54,572 42,223 4.4 3.5 4.3 3.3

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. . . . . . . . . 263,879 265,926 263,029 263,184 13,278 10,305 12,815 9,674 5.0 3.9 4.9 3.7

Panama City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,473 93,396 91,788 92,475 4,526 3,549 4,735 3,610 4.9 3.8 5.2 3.9

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. . . . . . . . . . . 217,172 219,449 215,477 217,169 10,332 8,243 10,086 7,679 4.8 3.8 4.7 3.5

Port St. Lucie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208,128 208,979 207,678 208,136 10,944 9,029 10,628 8,633 5.3 4.3 5.1 4.1

Punta Gorda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,057 71,923 70,317 71,976 3,638 2,900 3,529 2,769 5.2 4.0 5.0 3.8

Sebastian-Vero Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,463 64,010 63,610 63,597 3,766 2,904 3,647 2,760 5.9 4.5 5.7 4.3

Sebring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,766 37,108 37,265 37,241 2,395 1,905 2,309 1,800 6.5 5.1 6.2 4.8

Tallahassee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191,250 192,278 189,659 190,859 8,741 6,979 8,549 6,419 4.6 3.6 4.5 3.4

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. . . . . . 1,488,266 1,514,628 1,486,311 1,507,046 67,925 54,690 66,335 51,740 4.6 3.6 4.5 3.4

The Villages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,498 29,979 29,433 30,019 2,067 1,567 1,998 1,512 7.0 5.2 6.8 5.0

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,975,427 5,075,713 4,981,511 5,082,349 251,828 220,442 258,411 219,844 5.1 4.3 5.2 4.3

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,020 67,804 67,860 67,982 3,960 3,507 4,085 3,439 5.8 5.2 6.0 5.1

Athens-Clarke County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,786 102,327 96,572 101,583 5,278 4,212 4,844 4,072 5.3 4.1 5.0 4.0

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell. . . . . . . . . 2,974,539 3,049,275 2,985,227 3,053,437 143,823 126,902 147,899 126,163 4.8 4.2 5.0 4.1

Augusta-Richmond County. . . . . . . . . . . . . 263,998 269,743 264,851 272,422 13,294 12,195 13,584 12,530 5.0 4.5 5.1 4.6

Brunswick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,371 52,649 52,247 52,948 2,709 2,310 2,762 2,316 5.2 4.4 5.3 4.4

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,200 125,093 124,769 125,214 7,588 6,340 7,810 6,372 6.1 5.1 6.3 5.1

Dalton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,340 63,036 62,172 63,134 3,643 3,352 3,703 3,492 5.8 5.3 6.0 5.5

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,618 100,115 97,646 100,529 4,005 3,619 4,083 3,535 4.1 3.6 4.2 3.5

Hinesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,911 33,339 32,917 33,297 1,803 1,601 1,933 1,613 5.5 4.8 5.9 4.8

Macon-Bibb County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104,982 105,192 104,860 105,441 5,746 5,118 5,956 5,076 5.5 4.9 5.7 4.8

Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,846 43,989 43,811 43,954 2,406 2,049 2,466 2,023 5.5 4.7 5.6 4.6

Savannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181,868 184,978 181,529 185,031 8,803 7,489 9,003 7,407 4.8 4.0 5.0 4.0

Valdosta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,042 65,744 64,297 65,247 3,204 2,782 3,247 2,743 4.9 4.2 5.1 4.2

Warner Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,614 84,744 83,581 84,869 4,375 3,790 4,516 3,819 5.2 4.5 5.4 4.5

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692,102 683,687 691,469 680,357 19,950 13,852 17,691 11,816 2.9 2.0 2.6 1.7

Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,347 84,702 85,541 84,488 2,617 1,811 2,288 1,502 3.1 2.1 2.7 1.8

Urban Honolulu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480,395 476,076 480,972 474,060 13,018 9,235 11,666 7,951 2.7 1.9 2.4 1.7

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818,262 838,445 816,378 839,228 30,103 25,579 28,961 24,882 3.7 3.1 3.5 3.0

Boise City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339,326 350,592 339,816 351,332 12,322 10,428 11,241 9,706 3.6 3.0 3.3 2.8

Coeur d’Alene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,174 74,722 73,230 74,794 3,303 2,856 3,470 3,025 4.5 3.8 4.7 4.0

Idaho Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,330 67,619 66,170 67,773 2,032 1,797 1,912 1,643 3.1 2.7 2.9 2.4

Lewiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,353 32,219 31,412 31,920 1,145 1,003 1,124 1,002 3.7 3.1 3.6 3.1

Pocatello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,619 42,264 42,369 42,450 1,456 1,244 1,377 1,197 3.4 2.9 3.3 2.8

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,493,487 6,468,408 6,481,471 6,448,635 340,691 302,387 363,140 303,789 5.2 4.7 5.6 4.7

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,955 96,583 96,819 95,699 4,545 3,723 4,787 3,623 4.6 3.9 4.9 3.8

Carbondale-Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,152 60,576 60,773 60,005 3,163 2,724 3,397 2,642 5.2 4.5 5.6 4.4

Champaign-Urbana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,897 118,805 120,058 117,674 5,757 4,996 5,951 4,622 4.7 4.2 5.0 3.9

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,881,550 4,884,272 4,877,097 4,868,875 252,176 228,176 266,695 229,523 5.2 4.7 5.5 4.7

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,723 33,555 34,608 33,443 2,317 2,024 2,524 1,991 6.7 6.0 7.3 6.0

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island1. . . . . . . . . 190,291 188,243 190,675 187,213 9,160 7,392 10,198 7,847 4.8 3.9 5.3 4.2

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,883 48,760 49,837 48,406 2,976 2,578 3,127 2,571 6.0 5.3 6.3 5.3

Kankakee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,452 55,456 55,506 55,616 3,189 2,790 3,619 2,946 5.8 5.0 6.5 5.3

Peoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182,151 178,582 181,587 178,119 10,700 8,579 11,832 8,775 5.9 4.8 6.5 4.9

Rockford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166,878 163,505 168,157 164,368 10,014 8,351 10,968 8,363 6.0 5.1 6.5 5.1

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,693 111,031 113,340 111,000 4,984 4,428 5,394 4,382 4.4 4.0 4.8 3.9

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,316,013 3,289,184 3,287,532 3,268,341 127,730 110,345 131,025 100,457 3.9 3.4 4.0 3.1

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,788 78,258 77,192 76,690 3,096 2,854 3,000 2,315 3.9 3.6 3.9 3.0

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,236 45,069 44,078 44,821 1,306 1,145 1,306 1,019 3.0 2.5 3.0 2.3

Elkhart-Goshen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,395 110,430 106,695 110,698 3,363 2,780 3,203 2,360 3.1 2.5 3.0 2.1

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area — Continued

State and area

Civilian labor force Unemployed

November December Number Percent of labor force

2016 2017 2016 2017p

November December November December

2016 2017 2016 2017p 2016 2017 2016 2017p

Indiana - Continued

Evansville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159,656 159,773 157,773 158,223 6,011 4,964 6,083 4,384 3.8 3.1 3.9 2.8

Fort Wayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210,847 208,235 209,988 206,782 7,656 6,408 7,836 5,699 3.6 3.1 3.7 2.8

Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson. . . . . . . . . . 1,037,505 1,034,935 1,030,266 1,031,094 37,011 32,216 36,986 29,040 3.6 3.1 3.6 2.8

Kokomo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,163 38,389 38,077 38,198 1,514 1,293 1,610 1,150 4.0 3.4 4.2 3.0

Lafayette-West Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,570 112,022 108,008 108,848 3,870 3,498 3,797 2,937 3.5 3.1 3.5 2.7

Michigan City-La Porte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,893 45,569 47,509 45,410 2,387 1,934 2,691 1,924 5.0 4.2 5.7 4.2

Muncie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,916 54,364 54,673 53,853 2,478 2,316 2,596 2,004 4.5 4.3 4.7 3.7

South Bend-Mishawaka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159,376 156,355 158,119 155,894 6,497 5,767 6,584 5,423 4.1 3.7 4.2 3.5

Terre Haute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,461 76,983 76,951 77,047 3,522 3,140 3,755 2,931 4.5 4.1 4.9 3.8

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,691,617 1,679,905 1,684,529 1,669,980 50,922 42,644 60,330 47,555 3.0 2.5 3.6 2.8

Ames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,556 58,803 57,731 57,517 978 875 1,235 886 1.7 1.5 2.1 1.5

Cedar Rapids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,729 142,199 143,022 141,979 4,371 4,133 5,156 4,510 3.1 2.9 3.6 3.2

Des Moines-West Des Moines. . . . . . . . . 344,714 347,138 344,010 344,465 9,664 8,455 10,993 8,807 2.8 2.4 3.2 2.6

Dubuque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,050 53,991 55,314 53,864 1,466 1,274 1,943 1,597 2.7 2.4 3.5 3.0

Iowa City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,185 99,077 97,116 97,565 2,039 1,997 2,382 2,028 2.1 2.0 2.5 2.1

Sioux City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,739 90,540 91,652 90,064 2,984 2,521 3,581 2,708 3.3 2.8 3.9 3.0

Waterloo-Cedar Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,321 88,102 90,049 87,474 3,390 2,527 3,896 2,813 3.8 2.9 4.3 3.2

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,482,627 1,490,364 1,474,815 1,470,841 56,378 47,960 56,522 43,994 3.8 3.2 3.8 3.0

Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,849 67,136 66,183 65,642 2,175 1,876 2,119 1,635 3.3 2.8 3.2 2.5

Manhattan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,681 50,023 49,756 48,478 1,608 1,318 1,532 1,151 3.2 2.6 3.1 2.4

Topeka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,116 121,699 120,021 119,659 4,440 3,839 4,529 3,560 3.7 3.2 3.8 3.0

Wichita. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307,403 310,711 306,704 307,987 13,348 11,350 13,455 10,466 4.3 3.7 4.4 3.4

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,002,931 2,054,851 2,009,243 2,049,387 84,844 83,501 90,832 76,436 4.2 4.1 4.5 3.7

Bowling Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,270 83,381 80,263 83,189 2,710 2,920 2,837 2,617 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.1

Elizabethtown-Fort Knox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,435 67,487 65,342 67,092 2,583 2,607 2,816 2,355 3.9 3.9 4.3 3.5

Lexington-Fayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266,298 272,019 265,666 270,829 8,297 8,618 8,599 7,725 3.1 3.2 3.2 2.9

Louisville/Jefferson County. . . . . . . . . . . . . 645,263 665,785 651,026 666,851 23,716 23,362 24,674 21,202 3.7 3.5 3.8 3.2

Owensboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,541 55,189 53,625 54,989 2,111 2,230 2,335 2,052 3.9 4.0 4.4 3.7

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,104,428 2,109,342 2,084,212 2,117,381 114,387 89,006 112,436 84,275 5.4 4.2 5.4 4.0

Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,205 64,668 64,748 65,236 3,734 2,970 3,777 2,915 5.7 4.6 5.8 4.5

Baton Rouge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417,556 426,105 411,311 426,598 19,751 15,532 19,192 14,544 4.7 3.6 4.7 3.4

Hammond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,162 54,523 53,774 54,873 3,176 2,488 3,216 2,423 5.9 4.6 6.0 4.4

Houma-Thibodaux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,697 87,973 88,869 88,382 5,461 3,866 5,423 3,660 6.1 4.4 6.1 4.1

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211,088 210,274 209,308 210,675 13,310 9,427 13,052 8,882 6.3 4.5 6.2 4.2

Lake Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,142 113,784 107,195 113,433 4,576 3,824 4,484 3,577 4.2 3.4 4.2 3.2

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,925 81,571 80,407 81,895 4,502 3,521 4,421 3,358 5.6 4.3 5.5 4.1

New Orleans-Metairie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596,610 597,334 592,397 600,205 29,289 23,742 28,277 22,206 4.9 4.0 4.8 3.7

Shreveport-Bossier City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188,574 185,898 186,966 187,416 11,080 8,582 10,680 8,068 5.9 4.6 5.7 4.3

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691,090 696,831 688,709 693,026 25,518 21,040 24,167 17,307 3.7 3.0 3.5 2.5

Bangor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,272 70,900 70,865 70,586 2,508 2,077 2,373 1,741 3.5 2.9 3.3 2.5

Lewiston-Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,577 56,969 56,057 56,667 1,908 1,546 1,689 1,204 3.4 2.7 3.0 2.1

Portland-South Portland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203,395 206,537 202,240 205,329 6,076 5,026 5,303 3,786 3.0 2.4 2.6 1.8

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,180,574 3,230,586 3,172,633 3,202,685 126,573 129,352 122,921 122,956 4.0 4.0 3.9 3.8

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. . . . . . . . . . . 1,490,402 1,508,815 1,485,434 1,493,798 60,909 61,264 58,863 57,903 4.1 4.1 4.0 3.9

California-Lexington Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,353 55,312 54,264 54,902 1,955 2,136 1,849 1,984 3.6 3.9 3.4 3.6

Cumberland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,172 44,045 44,074 43,920 2,189 2,299 2,448 2,444 5.0 5.2 5.6 5.6

Hagerstown-Martinsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,719 132,994 133,039 132,945 5,157 5,186 5,180 5,222 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,583,688 3,623,587 3,575,041 3,621,182 98,720 118,848 98,949 111,662 2.8 3.3 2.8 3.1

Barnstable Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,673 120,465 116,330 119,012 3,967 4,798 4,363 4,998 3.4 4.0 3.8 4.2

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,654,514 2,683,039 2,649,807 2,681,518 68,243 80,511 66,868 74,068 2.6 3.0 2.5 2.8

Leominster-Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,768 76,249 75,591 76,503 2,391 2,887 2,441 2,747 3.2 3.8 3.2 3.6

New Bedford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,674 85,189 83,261 84,970 3,301 4,134 3,401 3,918 4.0 4.9 4.1 4.6

Pittsfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,252 42,232 42,357 42,638 1,393 1,684 1,503 1,704 3.3 4.0 3.5 4.0

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364,086 369,436 363,584 367,293 12,295 14,560 12,456 13,633 3.4 3.9 3.4 3.7

Worcester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345,799 347,740 343,909 348,061 10,416 12,134 10,438 11,406 3.0 3.5 3.0 3.3

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,845,978 4,869,779 4,830,685 4,851,699 203,410 192,624 215,298 215,738 4.2 4.0 4.5 4.4

Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195,715 196,917 193,594 194,173 5,706 6,133 5,269 5,823 2.9 3.1 2.7 3.0

Battle Creek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,793 64,446 64,496 64,090 2,485 2,819 2,697 3,074 3.8 4.4 4.2 4.8

Bay City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,063 51,283 51,969 50,861 2,174 2,317 2,565 2,720 4.2 4.5 4.9 5.3

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,067,175 2,094,729 2,068,225 2,090,833 97,931 77,667 99,229 87,481 4.7 3.7 4.8 4.2

Flint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183,947 182,125 182,667 181,097 8,130 9,209 9,085 10,287 4.4 5.1 5.0 5.7

Grand Rapids-Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573,025 576,490 568,628 574,847 16,812 18,646 17,091 19,722 2.9 3.2 3.0 3.4

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,749 74,611 73,654 73,856 2,900 3,075 3,092 3,245 3.9 4.1 4.2 4.4

Kalamazoo-Portage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169,471 170,320 168,978 169,500 6,109 6,687 6,618 7,372 3.6 3.9 3.9 4.3

Lansing-East Lansing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251,568 249,416 247,361 246,215 8,013 9,207 8,238 9,539 3.2 3.7 3.3 3.9

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,129 40,486 40,856 40,011 1,589 1,650 1,718 1,827 3.9 4.1 4.2 4.6

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,072 77,041 76,163 76,001 2,710 3,003 2,659 3,082 3.5 3.9 3.5 4.1

Muskegon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,570 76,771 75,929 76,382 3,407 3,779 3,592 4,014 4.4 4.9 4.7 5.3

Niles-Benton Harbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,586 73,152 72,942 72,678 3,027 3,260 3,385 3,659 4.1 4.5 4.6 5.0

Saginaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,147 89,384 88,758 88,674 3,731 4,208 4,107 4,580 4.2 4.7 4.6 5.2

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,997,906 3,067,812 2,994,599 3,066,881 102,107 81,490 121,941 101,985 3.4 2.7 4.1 3.3

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area — Continued

State and area

Civilian labor force Unemployed

November December Number Percent of labor force

2016 2017 2016 2017p

November December November December

2016 2017 2016 2017p 2016 2017 2016 2017p

Minnesota - Continued

Duluth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,896 144,506 141,000 144,118 7,105 5,415 7,784 6,233 5.0 3.7 5.5 4.3

Mankato-North Mankato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,354 61,517 59,848 61,052 1,519 1,173 1,856 1,528 2.5 1.9 3.1 2.5

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. . . . . . 1,935,389 1,994,774 1,931,869 1,990,904 61,274 48,275 69,700 57,608 3.2 2.4 3.6 2.9

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118,592 119,463 118,462 119,391 3,306 2,623 3,942 3,399 2.8 2.2 3.3 2.8

St. Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,702 111,839 110,029 111,726 3,641 2,958 4,656 3,975 3.3 2.6 4.2 3.6

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,281,867 1,276,858 1,289,299 1,270,970 64,314 57,316 73,153 56,982 5.0 4.5 5.7 4.5

Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . 164,812 164,690 165,121 163,752 8,663 7,661 9,725 7,639 5.3 4.7 5.9 4.7

Hattiesburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,825 69,294 68,644 69,137 3,101 2,623 3,463 2,618 4.5 3.8 5.0 3.8

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271,565 271,702 274,229 270,011 11,575 10,620 13,148 10,301 4.3 3.9 4.8 3.8

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,091,875 3,021,468 3,081,307 2,985,425 114,870 95,470 121,063 100,406 3.7 3.2 3.9 3.4

Cape Girardeau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,670 44,821 48,835 44,534 1,880 1,502 2,088 1,596 3.9 3.4 4.3 3.6

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,198 99,378 99,871 98,016 2,601 2,231 2,676 2,191 2.6 2.2 2.7 2.2

Jefferson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,047 73,547 75,254 72,046 2,251 1,936 2,388 2,008 3.0 2.6 3.2 2.8

Joplin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86,043 85,121 85,824 84,236 3,115 2,420 3,298 2,421 3.6 2.8 3.8 2.9

Kansas City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,122,617 1,117,448 1,126,141 1,106,777 41,840 36,057 42,629 36,354 3.7 3.2 3.8 3.3

St. Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,933 63,416 65,807 63,006 2,268 1,825 2,459 1,865 3.4 2.9 3.7 3.0

St. Louis2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,476,306 1,451,637 1,467,304 1,436,378 56,532 48,714 58,933 49,327 3.8 3.4 4.0 3.4

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232,249 229,786 233,914 228,639 7,666 6,273 8,118 6,347 3.3 2.7 3.5 2.8

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524,923 523,614 522,823 522,053 19,879 21,302 22,261 22,166 3.8 4.1 4.3 4.2

Billings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,027 88,078 88,314 87,801 2,803 3,054 3,274 3,139 3.2 3.5 3.7 3.6

Great Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,532 38,146 38,679 37,979 1,336 1,499 1,574 1,512 3.5 3.9 4.1 4.0

Missoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,451 62,443 61,880 61,736 2,118 2,171 2,371 2,466 3.4 3.5 3.8 4.0

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,010,228 1,008,567 1,007,426 1,004,603 27,976 23,909 31,903 27,983 2.8 2.4 3.2 2.8

Grand Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,243 42,681 43,203 42,621 1,261 1,087 1,520 1,330 2.9 2.5 3.5 3.1

Lincoln. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179,952 180,480 179,085 179,791 4,341 3,793 4,998 4,354 2.4 2.1 2.8 2.4

Omaha-Council Bluffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481,335 483,822 481,060 481,096 13,843 11,863 15,613 13,573 2.9 2.5 3.2 2.8

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,433,620 1,472,939 1,429,013 1,474,324 71,570 72,108 70,178 69,115 5.0 4.9 4.9 4.7

Carson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,564 25,112 24,460 24,989 1,292 1,242 1,294 1,217 5.3 4.9 5.3 4.9

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise. . . . . . . . 1,053,392 1,086,947 1,051,568 1,086,856 54,278 55,710 53,111 53,431 5.2 5.1 5.1 4.9

Reno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236,065 239,590 234,596 240,512 9,930 9,482 9,762 8,987 4.2 4.0 4.2 3.7

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749,293 743,344 747,463 737,581 19,573 18,538 18,907 16,829 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.3

Dover-Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,755 84,836 85,203 84,181 1,977 1,888 1,890 1,659 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.0

Manchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,232 116,734 116,747 115,665 2,980 2,779 2,846 2,467 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.1

Portsmouth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,702 74,854 74,941 74,030 1,833 1,709 1,728 1,531 2.4 2.3 2.3 2.1

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,492,794 4,484,899 4,491,251 4,434,963 186,915 217,045 187,578 180,924 4.2 4.8 4.2 4.1

Atlantic City-Hammonton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,403 123,916 121,697 122,171 8,498 8,977 8,740 7,909 6.9 7.2 7.2 6.5

Ocean City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,776 44,785 42,657 43,989 4,571 5,418 5,040 5,189 10.7 12.1 11.8 11.8

Trenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,704 198,314 200,030 195,827 7,049 8,426 7,039 6,962 3.5 4.2 3.5 3.6

Vineland-Bridgeton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,221 69,308 67,910 69,046 4,067 4,939 4,395 4,537 6.1 7.1 6.5 6.6

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935,046 938,880 934,596 941,340 60,388 53,902 58,415 51,342 6.5 5.7 6.3 5.5

Albuquerque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428,308 432,209 427,698 433,285 25,177 23,278 23,858 21,901 5.9 5.4 5.6 5.1

Farmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,516 52,878 53,445 52,846 4,486 3,369 4,575 3,291 8.4 6.4 8.6 6.2

Las Cruces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,380 95,849 96,701 96,459 6,431 5,993 6,310 5,896 6.7 6.3 6.5 6.1

Santa Fe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,666 73,767 73,261 73,752 3,774 3,592 3,546 3,349 5.1 4.9 4.8 4.5

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,496,305 9,644,018 9,437,309 9,550,946 428,310 431,485 420,764 419,359 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.4

Albany-Schenectady-Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443,907 447,864 439,841 443,909 16,864 19,189 17,229 18,691 3.8 4.3 3.9 4.2

Binghamton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,131 108,658 106,981 107,733 5,304 5,823 5,582 5,876 4.9 5.4 5.2 5.5

Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls. . . . . 541,316 543,928 541,376 538,720 26,319 29,073 27,729 29,525 4.9 5.3 5.1 5.5

Elmira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,934 35,384 35,790 35,164 1,866 1,930 1,877 1,917 5.2 5.5 5.2 5.5

Glens Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,273 59,895 58,663 59,386 2,922 3,136 3,209 3,410 4.9 5.2 5.5 5.7

Ithaca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,401 52,015 49,620 51,109 1,932 2,255 1,887 1,972 3.8 4.3 3.8 3.9

Kingston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,402 88,943 86,490 87,843 3,622 4,039 3,713 3,900 4.1 4.5 4.3 4.4

New York-Newark-Jersey City. . . . . . . . . . 9,929,152 10,029,250 9,888,806 9,929,504 426,470 434,801 410,419 394,762 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.0

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516,232 518,016 512,607 512,699 23,117 26,173 24,075 25,723 4.5 5.1 4.7 5.0

Syracuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303,396 308,805 301,594 306,008 14,081 15,700 14,973 15,695 4.6 5.1 5.0 5.1

Utica-Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,136 129,530 126,623 128,459 5,962 6,878 6,483 6,974 4.7 5.3 5.1 5.4

Watertown-Fort Drum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,814 45,856 44,552 45,368 2,835 3,093 3,162 3,260 6.3 6.7 7.1 7.2

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,921,006 4,943,636 4,888,173 4,900,294 241,445 221,839 238,340 215,792 4.9 4.5 4.9 4.4

Asheville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228,145 228,956 224,685 226,596 9,106 8,303 8,951 8,147 4.0 3.6 4.0 3.6

Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,809 80,490 79,633 79,995 3,600 3,352 3,564 3,228 4.5 4.2 4.5 4.0

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,302,803 1,311,802 1,297,593 1,306,178 59,397 55,658 58,721 54,321 4.6 4.2 4.5 4.2

Durham-Chapel Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291,666 297,461 291,497 293,754 12,642 11,617 12,392 11,236 4.3 3.9 4.3 3.8

Fayetteville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148,509 148,757 147,903 148,440 9,327 8,431 9,064 8,208 6.3 5.7 6.1 5.5

Goldsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,354 52,308 52,942 52,097 3,134 2,683 3,046 2,603 5.9 5.1 5.8 5.0

Greensboro-High Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371,436 370,589 369,169 366,015 18,527 17,453 18,324 16,889 5.0 4.7 5.0 4.6

Greenville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,910 87,813 88,603 87,122 4,639 4,273 4,619 4,103 5.2 4.9 5.2 4.7

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. . . . . . . . . . . . . 171,920 171,656 171,119 170,022 8,068 7,286 7,984 7,065 4.7 4.2 4.7 4.2

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,123 64,638 63,593 63,844 3,548 3,319 3,472 3,199 5.5 5.1 5.5 5.0

New Bern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,954 51,809 51,573 51,190 2,743 2,475 2,663 2,414 5.3 4.8 5.2 4.7

Raleigh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689,659 704,795 686,729 697,032 28,889 27,360 28,608 26,389 4.2 3.9 4.2 3.8

Rocky Mount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,227 66,677 67,725 65,980 4,719 4,303 4,653 4,153 6.9 6.5 6.9 6.3

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area — Continued

State and area

Civilian labor force Unemployed

November December Number Percent of labor force

2016 2017 2016 2017p

November December November December

2016 2017 2016 2017p 2016 2017 2016 2017p

North Carolina - Continued

Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,649 147,388 142,077 145,654 6,653 6,330 6,657 6,213 4.6 4.3 4.7 4.3

Winston-Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323,424 323,723 322,262 321,219 15,033 13,956 14,922 13,546 4.6 4.3 4.6 4.2

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413,729 413,798 412,466 409,589 10,765 9,378 12,674 10,789 2.6 2.3 3.1 2.6

Bismarck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,220 69,377 69,377 69,167 1,707 1,651 2,131 1,963 2.5 2.4 3.1 2.8

Fargo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137,395 139,890 137,685 139,151 2,934 2,775 3,747 3,386 2.1 2.0 2.7 2.4

Grand Forks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,950 56,740 57,749 56,310 1,412 1,280 1,694 1,544 2.4 2.3 2.9 2.7

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,692,448 5,766,217 5,663,487 5,724,031 256,301 243,994 269,865 257,647 4.5 4.2 4.8 4.5

Akron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358,748 359,637 356,569 357,821 16,492 15,889 17,765 17,164 4.6 4.4 5.0 4.8

Canton-Massillon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196,919 198,507 196,662 197,927 9,858 9,128 10,453 9,920 5.0 4.6 5.3 5.0

Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,081,903 1,110,074 1,084,242 1,101,507 42,407 41,384 43,594 41,627 3.9 3.7 4.0 3.8

Cleveland-Elyria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,020,042 1,025,431 1,012,466 1,010,359 48,683 46,889 53,394 47,296 4.8 4.6 5.3 4.7

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,058,936 1,075,080 1,054,994 1,075,670 39,687 38,109 41,069 39,759 3.7 3.5 3.9 3.7

Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380,832 392,243 381,043 393,503 16,454 15,888 17,023 16,641 4.3 4.1 4.5 4.2

Lima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,754 48,195 47,609 47,967 2,227 2,027 2,370 2,149 4.7 4.2 5.0 4.5

Mansfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,867 53,045 52,731 52,879 2,672 2,590 2,874 2,793 5.1 4.9 5.5 5.3

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,685 63,591 62,301 63,190 3,025 2,700 3,042 2,828 4.8 4.2 4.9 4.5

Toledo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303,801 306,581 302,824 305,739 13,648 13,499 14,104 14,433 4.5 4.4 4.7 4.7

Weirton-Steubenville1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,379 50,295 50,014 50,271 3,296 3,068 3,247 3,250 6.5 6.1 6.5 6.5

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman. . . . . . . . 247,130 245,457 244,782 243,181 14,128 13,219 14,491 13,976 5.7 5.4 5.9 5.7

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,837,205 1,856,179 1,821,171 1,846,462 84,586 69,346 83,463 71,473 4.6 3.7 4.6 3.9

Enid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,087 30,690 29,983 30,610 1,213 948 1,216 945 4.0 3.1 4.1 3.1

Lawton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,716 52,992 52,317 52,706 2,327 2,151 2,297 2,170 4.4 4.1 4.4 4.1

Oklahoma City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669,656 679,741 665,547 677,860 27,070 22,663 26,242 23,318 4.0 3.3 3.9 3.4

Tulsa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479,159 484,616 472,881 482,323 22,906 19,023 22,688 19,530 4.8 3.9 4.8 4.0

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,070,415 2,147,040 2,052,822 2,134,356 89,684 82,712 85,717 80,639 4.3 3.9 4.2 3.8

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,692 59,722 57,121 59,311 2,905 2,586 2,750 2,539 5.0 4.3 4.8 4.3

Bend-Redmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,552 94,910 89,684 94,136 3,962 3,838 4,037 3,963 4.4 4.0 4.5 4.2

Corvallis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,634 49,104 47,338 48,799 1,573 1,389 1,489 1,312 3.3 2.8 3.1 2.7

Eugene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181,911 188,882 180,260 188,474 8,426 7,758 7,992 7,481 4.6 4.1 4.4 4.0

Grants Pass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,745 35,983 34,486 35,581 1,978 1,787 1,918 1,831 5.7 5.0 5.6 5.1

Medford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,173 106,528 102,143 105,583 5,077 4,459 4,815 4,358 4.9 4.2 4.7 4.1

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. . . . . . . . . . 1,289,464 1,337,536 1,282,972 1,332,337 53,935 48,601 51,561 47,813 4.2 3.6 4.0 3.6

Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198,906 206,893 197,119 205,180 8,895 8,155 8,558 7,879 4.5 3.9 4.3 3.8

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,439,865 6,380,459 6,395,720 6,340,056 312,670 273,914 306,757 279,210 4.9 4.3 4.8 4.4

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . 429,581 424,897 427,239 419,318 20,260 18,843 19,551 18,409 4.7 4.4 4.6 4.4

Altoona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,892 58,274 59,417 58,021 2,862 2,430 2,919 2,529 4.8 4.2 4.9 4.4

Bloomsburg-Berwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,723 42,333 42,278 42,031 1,879 1,775 2,072 1,970 4.4 4.2 4.9 4.7

Chambersburg-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . 76,683 75,713 76,129 76,009 3,596 2,804 3,458 2,869 4.7 3.7 4.5 3.8

East Stroudsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,065 80,027 80,865 79,694 4,651 4,286 4,639 4,335 5.7 5.4 5.7 5.4

Erie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,816 131,452 131,552 129,392 7,828 6,403 7,989 6,630 5.9 4.9 6.1 5.1

Gettysburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,947 55,229 54,111 55,027 1,925 1,703 1,932 1,772 3.5 3.1 3.6 3.2

Harrisburg-Carlisle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294,200 294,575 292,716 292,829 11,903 10,722 11,358 10,988 4.0 3.6 3.9 3.8

Johnstown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,889 59,882 60,309 59,458 3,646 2,968 3,779 3,138 6.0 5.0 6.3 5.3

Lancaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276,685 276,017 274,433 275,704 10,175 9,081 9,815 9,124 3.7 3.3 3.6 3.3

Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,883 69,180 69,256 69,004 2,828 2,649 2,610 2,630 4.0 3.8 3.8 3.8

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. . . . . . . 3,102,050 3,094,001 3,089,962 3,070,315 139,731 136,466 133,141 128,439 4.5 4.4 4.3 4.2

Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,211,503 1,201,660 1,202,393 1,194,138 61,411 51,822 61,253 53,768 5.1 4.3 5.1 4.5

Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213,065 211,555 211,393 210,491 9,637 8,563 9,319 8,392 4.5 4.0 4.4 4.0

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton. . . . . . . 279,368 278,025 277,954 275,972 14,832 13,311 15,030 13,889 5.3 4.8 5.4 5.0

State College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,940 79,401 78,983 77,514 2,827 2,501 2,957 2,559 3.5 3.1 3.7 3.3

Williamsport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,108 56,587 57,750 56,236 3,274 2,767 3,472 3,067 5.6 4.9 6.0 5.5

York-Hanover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233,267 230,886 232,281 229,574 9,614 8,771 9,280 8,702 4.1 3.8 4.0 3.8

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553,212 557,282 550,196 555,753 25,413 23,887 24,653 23,580 4.6 4.3 4.5 4.2

Providence-Warwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679,142 683,910 675,250 681,598 28,995 28,507 28,387 28,101 4.3 4.2 4.2 4.1

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,285,900 2,302,036 2,283,712 2,301,587 91,905 91,343 95,277 98,279 4.0 4.0 4.2 4.3

Charleston-North Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . 373,388 377,102 373,158 374,937 12,594 12,448 13,032 13,160 3.4 3.3 3.5 3.5

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400,549 400,087 399,479 398,296 15,314 16,009 15,506 16,851 3.8 4.0 3.9 4.2

Florence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,100 95,153 94,906 95,619 4,245 4,245 4,363 4,608 4.5 4.5 4.6 4.8

Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin. . . . . . . . . . . 421,840 421,795 421,460 422,981 15,169 14,889 15,514 15,862 3.6 3.5 3.7 3.8

Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort. . . . 83,217 83,554 82,653 83,288 3,165 3,129 3,276 3,328 3.8 3.7 4.0 4.0

Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183,803 187,172 180,543 184,533 9,799 9,310 10,757 10,706 5.3 5.0 6.0 5.8

Spartanburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154,089 155,745 154,450 155,673 5,915 5,887 6,027 6,268 3.8 3.8 3.9 4.0

Sumter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,796 43,359 43,797 43,489 2,144 2,149 2,183 2,275 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.2

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454,040 458,649 450,700 456,865 12,215 15,310 13,748 16,610 2.7 3.3 3.1 3.6

Rapid City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,672 73,754 71,225 72,926 2,129 2,661 2,306 2,795 3.0 3.6 3.2 3.8

Sioux Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149,457 150,282 147,687 148,898 3,363 4,302 3,750 4,561 2.3 2.9 2.5 3.1

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,157,185 3,206,188 3,156,140 3,207,374 148,866 106,917 155,435 99,454 4.7 3.3 4.9 3.1

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261,668 269,419 261,419 268,776 12,565 9,450 12,876 9,022 4.8 3.5 4.9 3.4

Clarksville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,172 111,092 110,018 110,565 5,663 4,525 5,862 4,089 5.1 4.1 5.3 3.7

Cleveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,823 62,217 62,022 62,934 2,676 1,947 2,767 1,805 4.3 3.1 4.5 2.9

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,426 64,068 63,306 64,467 3,066 2,387 3,251 2,205 4.8 3.7 5.1 3.4

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area — Continued

State and area

Civilian labor force Unemployed

November December Number Percent of labor force

2016 2017 2016 2017p

November December November December

2016 2017 2016 2017p 2016 2017 2016 2017p

Tennessee - Continued

Johnson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,797 90,669 89,600 90,667 4,717 3,323 5,011 3,124 5.3 3.7 5.6 3.4

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137,498 137,191 137,667 137,215 6,890 5,104 7,099 4,717 5.0 3.7 5.2 3.4

Knoxville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415,365 417,666 411,185 415,292 18,704 13,138 19,259 12,074 4.5 3.1 4.7 2.9

Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628,951 634,828 631,117 632,641 32,096 24,826 33,686 23,434 5.1 3.9 5.3 3.7

Morristown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,013 52,103 50,875 51,724 2,567 1,883 2,695 1,712 5.0 3.6 5.3 3.3

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--

Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982,219 1,011,648 983,699 1,014,533 36,626 26,672 37,361 24,185 3.7 2.6 3.8 2.4

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,371,089 13,500,872 13,353,321 13,545,282 599,870 499,280 605,992 501,323 4.5 3.7 4.5 3.7

Abilene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,017 74,900 74,368 74,968 2,856 2,423 2,827 2,374 3.8 3.2 3.8 3.2

Amarillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,042 132,651 131,723 132,958 4,159 3,388 4,103 3,291 3.1 2.6 3.1 2.5

Austin-Round Rock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,124,627 1,147,438 1,120,142 1,150,367 35,932 31,321 35,526 30,801 3.2 2.7 3.2 2.7

Beaumont-Port Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173,843 172,109 173,738 172,794 12,042 11,132 12,974 11,606 6.9 6.5 7.5 6.7

Brownsville-Harlingen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166,597 164,014 166,542 164,860 11,703 9,515 12,244 9,832 7.0 5.8 7.4 6.0

College Station-Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,453 131,628 126,576 130,472 4,320 3,600 4,284 3,527 3.4 2.7 3.4 2.7

Corpus Christi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205,885 209,301 206,001 209,697 12,431 11,057 12,774 10,934 6.0 5.3 6.2 5.2

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . 3,738,873 3,809,917 3,732,597 3,816,293 138,210 120,359 137,964 120,121 3.7 3.2 3.7 3.1

El Paso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355,604 359,883 354,344 360,241 16,969 14,355 17,026 14,466 4.8 4.0 4.8 4.0

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land. . . 3,295,413 3,313,265 3,299,559 3,328,011 172,105 142,454 174,603 143,787 5.2 4.3 5.3 4.3

Killeen-Temple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177,703 179,598 177,130 179,457 7,625 6,509 7,531 6,360 4.3 3.6 4.3 3.5

Laredo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,770 114,687 114,627 115,037 5,073 3,923 5,223 3,922 4.4 3.4 4.6 3.4

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,197 97,466 97,745 97,405 5,878 4,073 5,789 4,037 6.0 4.2 5.9 4.1

Lubbock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159,184 159,592 158,103 159,482 5,054 4,365 5,014 4,328 3.2 2.7 3.2 2.7

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . 335,661 337,136 339,921 341,294 25,365 21,028 28,011 22,914 7.6 6.2 8.2 6.7

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86,732 87,297 86,198 87,499 3,496 2,234 3,431 2,151 4.0 2.6 4.0 2.5

Odessa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,864 74,592 74,904 74,809 4,398 2,513 4,232 2,440 5.9 3.4 5.6 3.3

San Angelo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,665 54,224 54,353 54,359 2,323 1,676 2,283 1,625 4.2 3.1 4.2 3.0

San Antonio-New Braunfels. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,145,061 1,167,221 1,143,133 1,174,107 41,854 35,568 41,609 34,989 3.7 3.0 3.6 3.0

Sherman-Denison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,353 61,356 61,016 61,487 2,241 1,883 2,197 1,841 3.7 3.1 3.6 3.0

Texarkana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,003 64,973 64,581 64,849 2,881 2,607 2,968 2,637 4.4 4.0 4.6 4.1

Tyler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,772 107,225 106,795 107,996 4,645 3,711 4,629 3,708 4.4 3.5 4.3 3.4

Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,327 46,778 47,122 46,848 2,545 1,911 2,472 1,813 5.4 4.1 5.2 3.9

Waco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,809 120,961 122,273 121,320 4,745 4,247 4,676 4,102 3.9 3.5 3.8 3.4

Wichita Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,408 63,261 63,225 63,377 2,632 2,081 2,634 2,027 4.2 3.3 4.2 3.2

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,526,692 1,574,171 1,527,220 1,574,792 40,660 42,620 44,456 44,678 2.7 2.7 2.9 2.8

Logan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,609 70,940 68,750 70,668 1,631 1,584 1,784 1,603 2.4 2.2 2.6 2.3

Ogden-Clearfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317,656 325,462 316,355 324,257 8,602 9,476 9,185 9,629 2.7 2.9 2.9 3.0

Provo-Orem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289,808 300,745 289,563 301,046 6,731 7,109 7,241 7,385 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.5

St. George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,712 72,679 67,892 72,055 1,943 2,058 2,219 2,269 2.8 2.8 3.3 3.1

Salt Lake City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646,104 663,892 644,938 663,135 16,099 17,187 17,388 17,929 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.7

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344,383 344,807 343,751 343,761 10,072 9,146 9,760 8,518 2.9 2.7 2.8 2.5

Burlington-South Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . 124,690 125,905 123,549 124,680 2,978 2,733 2,739 2,331 2.4 2.2 2.2 1.9

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,249,068 4,270,619 4,237,986 4,257,390 159,490 154,815 160,026 142,728 3.8 3.6 3.8 3.4

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford. . . . . 91,396 92,467 91,673 92,192 3,733 3,507 3,731 3,040 4.1 3.8 4.1 3.3

Charlottesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,881 119,250 116,805 118,434 3,812 3,816 3,804 3,376 3.2 3.2 3.3 2.9

Harrisonburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,490 66,561 65,563 66,510 2,261 2,355 2,263 2,012 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.0

Lynchburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,877 121,963 121,752 122,031 5,088 5,084 5,213 4,656 4.2 4.2 4.3 3.8

Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665,307 674,571 662,447 672,476 25,892 25,778 25,914 24,005 3.9 3.8 3.9 3.6

Roanoke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157,627 159,311 158,103 158,698 5,885 5,726 5,951 5,259 3.7 3.6 3.8 3.3

Staunton-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,284 59,841 59,184 59,754 2,134 2,029 2,205 1,868 3.6 3.4 3.7 3.1

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News. . . 829,437 822,834 826,801 817,588 35,666 33,937 35,678 31,639 4.3 4.1 4.3 3.9

Winchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,335 70,552 69,008 69,749 2,297 2,252 2,351 2,101 3.3 3.2 3.4 3.0

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,671,129 3,755,018 3,666,401 3,735,835 188,004 166,724 193,221 182,571 5.1 4.4 5.3 4.9

Bellingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,913 113,551 109,505 112,196 5,984 4,867 6,351 5,558 5.5 4.3 5.8 5.0

Bremerton-Silverdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,444 121,846 119,779 121,609 6,539 5,421 6,585 6,080 5.5 4.4 5.5 5.0

Kennewick-Richland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133,786 137,525 133,314 135,621 8,816 6,997 10,306 9,041 6.6 5.1 7.7 6.7

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,468 46,470 45,315 46,206 3,144 2,527 3,328 2,920 6.9 5.4 7.3 6.3

Mount Vernon-Anacortes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,462 60,434 58,584 59,715 3,764 2,889 3,925 3,445 6.4 4.8 6.7 5.8

Olympia-Tumwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133,491 138,322 134,274 137,080 7,178 6,014 7,401 6,897 5.4 4.3 5.5 5.0

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,041,005 2,079,857 2,039,201 2,083,271 87,719 85,618 82,526 84,442 4.3 4.1 4.0 4.1

Spokane-Spokane Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262,724 270,100 262,631 266,315 15,045 12,773 17,209 15,635 5.7 4.7 6.6 5.9

Walla Walla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,817 32,901 30,681 31,151 1,614 1,379 1,897 1,684 5.1 4.2 6.2 5.4

Wenatchee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,762 64,090 61,560 62,479 3,705 2,961 4,121 3,706 5.9 4.6 6.7 5.9

Yakima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,177 121,570 121,626 119,520 9,968 7,132 11,861 9,851 8.1 5.9 9.8 8.2

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779,129 777,146 771,785 777,546 38,750 38,747 39,261 41,073 5.0 5.0 5.1 5.3

Beckley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,946 43,785 44,245 43,844 2,752 2,599 2,697 2,671 6.1 5.9 6.1 6.1

Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,790 96,175 95,233 96,454 4,790 4,917 4,751 5,078 5.0 5.1 5.0 5.3

Huntington-Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145,967 146,431 144,968 146,506 7,612 7,475 7,766 7,683 5.2 5.1 5.4 5.2

Morgantown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,673 67,715 66,075 67,492 2,357 2,516 2,397 2,692 3.5 3.7 3.6 4.0

Parkersburg-Vienna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,804 38,041 38,560 38,312 1,939 2,003 1,951 2,241 5.0 5.3 5.1 5.8

Wheeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,704 64,334 64,128 64,495 3,659 3,247 3,693 3,520 5.7 5.0 5.8 5.5

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,116,760 3,172,944 3,098,335 3,150,289 113,945 85,858 114,831 84,051 3.7 2.7 3.7 2.7

Appleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,044 135,554 131,572 134,753 4,131 3,419 4,264 3,268 3.1 2.5 3.2 2.4

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area — Continued

State and area

Civilian labor force Unemployed

November December Number Percent of labor force

2016 2017 2016 2017p

November December November December

2016 2017 2016 2017p 2016 2017 2016 2017p

Wisconsin - Continued

Eau Claire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,495 92,433 91,522 91,622 2,949 2,292 3,397 2,553 3.2 2.5 3.7 2.8

Fond du Lac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,709 58,618 57,493 58,073 1,724 1,326 1,704 1,282 3.0 2.3 3.0 2.2

Green Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171,356 174,131 170,260 173,148 5,822 4,460 5,930 4,404 3.4 2.6 3.5 2.5

Janesville-Beloit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,489 86,714 83,750 86,239 3,392 2,541 3,335 2,389 4.0 2.9 4.0 2.8

La Crosse-Onalaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,490 80,746 78,585 80,015 2,518 1,847 2,706 1,903 3.2 2.3 3.4 2.4

Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386,158 397,336 383,884 393,340 10,670 8,218 10,163 7,640 2.8 2.1 2.6 1.9

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis. . . . . . . 824,951 833,556 815,195 825,579 33,467 24,980 31,505 22,691 4.1 3.0 3.9 2.7

Oshkosh-Neenah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,166 93,954 92,525 93,518 3,114 2,373 2,979 2,226 3.3 2.5 3.2 2.4

Racine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,657 99,694 98,049 98,864 4,400 3,337 4,290 3,162 4.5 3.3 4.4 3.2

Sheboygan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,289 62,202 61,852 61,928 2,023 1,483 1,910 1,416 3.2 2.4 3.1 2.3

Wausau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,550 75,968 74,669 76,267 2,370 1,832 2,404 1,797 3.2 2.4 3.2 2.4

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300,414 291,490 299,114 289,691 13,967 12,180 14,866 11,439 4.6 4.2 5.0 3.9

Casper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,387 38,761 40,169 38,977 2,512 1,975 2,730 1,953 6.2 5.1 6.8 5.0

Cheyenne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,402 48,049 49,481 48,333 1,735 1,742 2,011 1,703 3.5 3.6 4.1 3.5

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,111,068 1,114,967 1,138,998 1,120,810 121,705 115,427 136,773 110,542 11.0 10.4 12.0 9.9

Aguadilla-Isabela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,461 89,349 92,876 89,239 13,413 12,815 15,542 12,309 15.0 14.3 16.7 13.8

Arecibo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,752 51,985 54,446 52,070 7,143 6,602 8,187 6,545 13.5 12.7 15.0 12.6

Guayama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,958 21,923 22,763 22,046 3,674 3,561 4,275 3,568 16.7 16.2 18.8 16.2

Mayaguez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,809 29,070 29,526 29,088 3,664 3,400 4,048 3,129 12.7 11.7 13.7 10.8

Ponce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,393 96,084 99,734 96,873 13,648 12,470 15,521 12,055 14.2 13.0 15.6 12.4

San German. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,161 37,721 38,515 38,092 5,220 5,304 5,933 5,007 14.0 14.1 15.4 13.1

San Juan-Carolina-Caguas. . . . . . . . . . . . 738,309 741,931 752,596 745,704 67,653 64,203 75,244 60,928 9.2 8.7 10.0 8.2

1 For operational reasons, these interstate areas are listed under the state that accounts for the larger share of the population, which is different from the state that contains the first principal city.

2 The area boundary does not reflect the Office of Management and Budget delineation.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data refer to place of residence. Data for Puerto Rico are derived from a monthly household survey similar to the Current Population Survey. Area delineations are based on Office of

Management and Budget Bulletin No. 15-01, dated July 15, 2015, and are available on the BLS website at https://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan

New England City and Town Areas (NECTAs), while areas in other states are county-based. Some metropolitan areas lie in two or more states. They are listed under the state containing the first

principal city, unless otherwise footnoted. Estimates for the latest month are subject to revision the following month.
LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 2. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state, selected metropolitan area, and metropolitan

division1

State, area, and division

Civilian labor force Unemployed

November December Number Percent of labor force

2016 2017 2016 2017p

November December November December

2016 2017 2016 2017p 2016 2017 2016 2017p

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,157,621 19,344,853 19,098,452 19,286,476 963,869 776,409 957,110 804,575 5.0 4.0 5.0 4.2

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . 6,673,583 6,765,132 6,647,478 6,736,770 303,397 261,014 293,940 259,723 4.5 3.9 4.4 3.9

Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine. . . . . . . . . 1,605,968 1,609,838 1,599,580 1,610,615 59,578 46,198 56,436 45,704 3.7 2.9 3.5 2.8

Los Angeles-Long

Beach-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,067,615 5,155,294 5,047,898 5,126,155 243,819 214,816 237,504 214,019 4.8 4.2 4.7 4.2

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . 2,555,634 2,584,222 2,557,905 2,580,414 90,096 68,645 85,906 69,209 3.5 2.7 3.4 2.7

Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley. . . . . . . . 1,399,993 1,412,425 1,401,393 1,410,379 55,845 42,527 53,337 42,880 4.0 3.0 3.8 3.0

San Francisco-Redwood City-South

San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,014,408 1,028,204 1,015,125 1,027,288 29,942 22,902 28,468 23,072 3.0 2.2 2.8 2.2

San Rafael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,233 143,593 141,387 142,747 4,309 3,216 4,101 3,257 3.1 2.2 2.9 2.3

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394,454 401,650 392,765 400,550 22,343 23,177 21,456 20,987 5.7 5.8 5.5 5.2

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . 3,333,272 3,382,566 3,322,087 3,364,877 119,213 122,321 115,190 111,207 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.3

Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville3.. . 683,827 699,925 681,902 693,406 21,514 23,165 19,762 20,165 3.1 3.3 2.9 2.9

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2.. . 2,649,445 2,682,641 2,640,185 2,671,471 97,699 99,156 95,428 91,042 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.4

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,927,342 10,082,256 9,909,607 10,062,570 473,563 387,633 467,212 368,312 4.8 3.8 4.7 3.7

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,096,237 3,144,052 3,089,811 3,143,864 148,763 128,173 150,855 123,806 4.8 4.1 4.9 3.9

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano

Beach-Deerfield Beach. . . . . . . . . 1,012,185 1,032,249 1,010,074 1,026,696 46,087 36,911 44,709 34,813 4.6 3.6 4.4 3.4

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall. . . . . . . 1,360,607 1,386,950 1,361,651 1,393,533 68,334 63,628 72,959 63,158 5.0 4.6 5.4 4.5

West Palm Beach-Boca

Raton-Delray Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . 723,445 724,853 718,086 723,635 34,342 27,634 33,187 25,835 4.7 3.8 4.6 3.6

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,493,487 6,468,408 6,481,471 6,448,635 340,691 302,387 363,140 303,789 5.2 4.7 5.6 4.7

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin2. . . . . . . . . . . 4,881,550 4,884,272 4,877,097 4,868,875 252,176 228,176 266,695 229,523 5.2 4.7 5.5 4.7

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington

Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,761,186 3,777,175 3,758,619 3,765,435 198,080 181,538 205,362 181,083 5.3 4.8 5.5 4.8

Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324,504 320,122 322,444 319,992 15,910 13,953 18,404 14,774 4.9 4.4 5.7 4.6

Gary3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340,018 329,341 338,898 326,593 17,024 14,687 18,837 14,630 5.0 4.5 5.6 4.5

Lake County-Kenosha County2. . . . 455,842 457,634 457,136 456,855 21,162 17,998 24,092 19,036 4.6 3.9 5.3 4.2

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,583,688 3,623,587 3,575,041 3,621,182 98,720 118,848 98,949 111,662 2.8 3.3 2.8 3.1

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua2. . . . . . . . . 2,654,514 2,683,039 2,649,807 2,681,518 68,243 80,511 66,868 74,068 2.6 3.0 2.5 2.8

Boston-Cambridge-Newton. . . . . . . . 1,574,793 1,597,032 1,572,112 1,596,371 37,614 45,626 36,521 41,438 2.4 2.9 2.3 2.6

Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton. . . . . . 105,596 106,231 105,416 106,145 3,202 3,839 3,216 3,539 3.0 3.6 3.1 3.3

Framingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154,810 155,512 154,404 155,779 3,486 4,304 3,490 3,993 2.3 2.8 2.3 2.6

Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury

Town2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,148 113,809 112,557 113,897 3,159 3,402 3,190 3,234 2.8 3.0 2.8 2.8

Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem2.. . 95,134 95,449 94,470 95,222 3,657 4,175 3,545 4,016 3.8 4.4 3.8 4.2

Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford2. . . . . . . 184,908 186,315 184,955 186,886 5,258 6,096 5,247 5,750 2.8 3.3 2.8 3.1

Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead. . . . . . . . . 83,099 83,663 82,838 83,643 2,357 2,700 2,290 2,449 2.8 3.2 2.8 2.9

Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,682 171,620 171,099 170,161 4,794 4,694 4,668 4,310 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.5

Peabody-Salem-Beverly. . . . . . . . . . . 90,412 91,158 90,373 91,441 2,276 2,807 2,228 2,593 2.5 3.1 2.5 2.8

Taunton-Middleborough-Norton. . . . 81,932 82,250 81,583 81,973 2,440 2,868 2,473 2,746 3.0 3.5 3.0 3.3

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,845,978 4,869,779 4,830,685 4,851,699 203,410 192,624 215,298 215,738 4.2 4.0 4.5 4.4

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,067,175 2,094,729 2,068,225 2,090,833 97,931 77,667 99,229 87,481 4.7 3.7 4.8 4.2

Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . 772,640 780,316 773,015 779,850 43,702 35,090 43,961 39,395 5.7 4.5 5.7 5.1

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills. . . . . . 1,294,535 1,314,413 1,295,212 1,310,984 54,229 42,578 55,269 48,086 4.2 3.2 4.3 3.7

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,496,305 9,644,018 9,437,309 9,550,946 428,310 431,485 420,764 419,359 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.4

New York-Newark-Jersey City2. . . . . . 9,929,152 10,029,250 9,888,806 9,929,504 426,470 434,801 410,419 394,762 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.0

Dutchess County-Putnam County.. . 190,351 194,509 188,304 192,181 7,450 8,430 7,443 7,864 3.9 4.3 4.0 4.1

Nassau County-Suffolk County. . . . . 1,463,798 1,472,477 1,454,318 1,463,846 57,583 65,171 56,718 61,829 3.9 4.4 3.9 4.2

Newark3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,231,893 1,218,199 1,229,641 1,204,314 50,630 58,639 50,660 48,827 4.1 4.8 4.1 4.1

New York-Jersey City-White

Plains2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,043,110 7,144,065 7,016,543 7,069,163 310,807 302,561 295,598 276,242 4.4 4.2 4.2 3.9

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,439,865 6,380,459 6,395,720 6,340,056 312,670 273,914 306,757 279,210 4.9 4.3 4.8 4.4

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington2. . . . 3,102,050 3,094,001 3,089,962 3,070,315 139,731 136,466 133,141 128,439 4.5 4.4 4.3 4.2

Camden3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640,670 643,368 640,187 635,276 26,567 31,370 26,436 26,001 4.1 4.9 4.1 4.1

Montgomery County-Bucks

County-Chester County. . . . . . . . . 1,071,116 1,064,399 1,065,189 1,058,350 41,058 36,839 38,556 36,023 3.8 3.5 3.6 3.4

Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,012,361 1,003,981 1,004,821 995,127 57,238 52,157 53,327 50,997 5.7 5.2 5.3 5.1

Wilmington3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377,903 382,253 379,765 381,562 14,868 16,100 14,822 15,418 3.9 4.2 3.9 4.0

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,371,089 13,500,872 13,353,321 13,545,282 599,870 499,280 605,992 501,323 4.5 3.7 4.5 3.7

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . 3,738,873 3,809,917 3,732,597 3,816,293 138,210 120,359 137,964 120,121 3.7 3.2 3.7 3.1

Dallas-Plano-Irving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,523,090 2,575,306 2,520,613 2,575,816 91,620 80,986 91,579 80,954 3.6 3.1 3.6 3.1

Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,215,783 1,234,611 1,211,984 1,240,477 46,590 39,373 46,385 39,167 3.8 3.2 3.8 3.2

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,671,129 3,755,018 3,666,401 3,735,835 188,004 166,724 193,221 182,571 5.1 4.4 5.3 4.9

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,041,005 2,079,857 2,039,201 2,083,271 87,719 85,618 82,526 84,442 4.3 4.1 4.0 4.1

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett. . . . . . . . . . . 1,627,247 1,649,700 1,623,073 1,654,020 63,900 65,398 57,743 61,386 3.9 4.0 3.6 3.7

Tacoma-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413,758 430,157 416,128 429,251 23,819 20,220 24,783 23,056 5.8 4.7 6.0 5.4

1 These 11 areas contain all of the 38 metropolitan divisions.

2 Part of the area (or division) is in one or more adjacent states.

3 All of the division is in one or more adjacent states.

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NOTE: Data refer to place of residence. Area delineations are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 15-01, dated July 15, 2015, and are available on the BLS website at

https://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New England City and Town Areas (NECTAs), while areas in other states are county-based. Some 

metropolitan areas lie in two or more states. They are listed under the state containing the first principal city. Metropolitan divisions are listed under their metropolitan areas. Some divisions lie 

in more than one state, and some, like Camden, NJ, are totally outside the states under which their metropolitan areas are listed. For Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, the 

metropolitan area and division titles are identical. Estimates for the latest month are subject to revision the following month.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area, not seasonally adjusted

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2016 to December

2017p

2016 2017 2016 2017p Number Percent

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,999.3 2,028.6 1,992.6 2,025.1 32.5 1.6

Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.2 46.7 45.9 46.7 0.8 1.7

Auburn-Opelika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.3 67.4 64.2 66.8 2.6 4.0

Birmingham-Hoover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525.9 526.9 525.3 526.6 1.3 0.2

Daphne-Fairhope-Foley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.1 75.8 71.8 75.3 3.5 4.9

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.6 54.8 53.6 54.6 1.0 1.9

Dothan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.0 58.1 58.1 57.8 -0.3 -0.5

Florence-Muscle Shoals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.9 58.0 57.5 57.5 0.0 0.0

Gadsden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.7 39.3 38.6 39.5 0.9 2.3

Huntsville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230.2 236.3 229.5 235.7 6.2 2.7

Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.7 180.2 179.8 180.4 0.6 0.3

Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.4 175.3 174.1 175.5 1.4 0.8

Tuscaloosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.9 109.4 106.4 108.6 2.2 2.1

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317.3 316.0 315.0 314.6 -0.4 -0.1

Anchorage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.8 174.6 175.1 174.4 -0.7 -0.4

Fairbanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.7 36.5 36.4 36.4 0.0 0.0

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,767.5 2,809.8 2,773.0 2,815.5 42.5 1.5

Flagstaff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.8 67.6 66.4 66.9 0.5 0.8

Lake Havasu City-Kingman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.2 50.0 48.5 49.5 1.0 2.1

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,023.4 2,066.8 2,032.6 2,070.2 37.6 1.8

Prescott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.3 63.6 62.9 63.1 0.2 0.3

Sierra Vista-Douglas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.7 35.0 34.6 34.7 0.1 0.3

Tucson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381.3 378.6 379.3 381.2 1.9 0.5

Yuma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.5 56.2 56.1 56.9 0.8 1.4

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,242.0 1,264.0 1,240.6 1,256.7 16.1 1.3

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251.9 258.2 249.6 255.5 5.9 2.4

Fort Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.4 114.3 114.5 114.0 -0.5 -0.4

Hot Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.3 37.7 37.4 37.7 0.3 0.8

Jonesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.8 57.7 56.8 57.4 0.6 1.1

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355.8 358.8 356.6 359.6 3.0 0.8

Pine Bluff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.8 33.3 33.8 33.1 -0.7 -2.1

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,780.7 17,073.8 16,763.5 17,108.2 344.7 2.1

Bakersfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259.6 263.2 259.3 263.1 3.8 1.5

Chico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.4 83.0 82.0 82.7 0.7 0.9

El Centro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.0 53.7 53.2 53.9 0.7 1.3

Fresno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342.9 349.7 340.1 349.7 9.6 2.8

Hanford-Corcoran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.0 39.9 38.7 39.6 0.9 2.3

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,074.9 6,127.9 6,064.6 6,142.9 78.3 1.3

Madera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.6 38.8 37.3 38.8 1.5 4.0

Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.5 66.9 66.5 66.7 0.2 0.3

Modesto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.6 178.3 174.4 177.6 3.2 1.8

Napa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.7 74.0 70.9 72.4 1.5 2.1

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306.6 313.2 307.4 313.1 5.7 1.9

Redding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.9 68.8 66.2 68.3 2.1 3.2

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,442.5 1,490.4 1,445.9 1,495.7 49.8 3.4

Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965.4 983.9 962.3 985.0 22.7 2.4

Salinas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.8 141.4 138.5 139.4 0.9 0.6

San Diego-Carlsbad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,448.2 1,468.7 1,444.6 1,465.7 21.1 1.5

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,385.2 2,428.2 2,392.9 2,431.5 38.6 1.6

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,090.9 1,110.3 1,092.0 1,116.2 24.2 2.2

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.7 118.0 113.6 115.6 2.0 1.8

Santa Cruz-Watsonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.3 102.9 101.8 102.5 0.7 0.7

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183.8 187.6 183.8 186.2 2.4 1.3

Santa Rosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.9 205.7 204.0 205.7 1.7 0.8

Stockton-Lodi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230.1 232.7 228.7 232.4 3.7 1.6

Vallejo-Fairfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138.4 140.0 137.9 139.4 1.5 1.1

Visalia-Porterville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126.1 127.8 126.3 127.5 1.2 1.0

Yuba City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.5 43.8 43.7 43.6 -0.1 -0.2

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,623.2 2,677.2 2,631.0 2,689.2 58.2 2.2

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area, not seasonally adjusted — Continued

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2016 to December

2017p

2016 2017 2016 2017p Number Percent

Colorado - Continued

Boulder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188.9 193.6 189.0 193.8 4.8 2.5

Colorado Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283.8 287.4 282.7 287.3 4.6 1.6

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,449.4 1,473.7 1,448.4 1,477.7 29.3 2.0

Fort Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164.6 169.1 163.8 168.6 4.8 2.9

Grand Junction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.1 61.9 61.4 61.5 0.1 0.2

Greeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.0 104.8 100.6 104.9 4.3 4.3

Pueblo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.6 63.0 62.4 62.7 0.3 0.5

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,698.0 1,700.9 1,693.8 1,701.8 8.0 0.5

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411.4 415.8 411.9 415.2 3.3 0.8

Danbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.0 80.4 80.3 81.1 0.8 1.0

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577.2 577.6 573.5 577.9 4.4 0.8

New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287.1 288.7 284.6 287.5 2.9 1.0

Norwich-New London-Westerly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130.0 128.7 129.9 129.0 -0.9 -0.7

Waterbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.8 68.2 67.6 67.9 0.3 0.4

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457.6 458.0 457.4 457.2 -0.2 0.0

Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.8 70.1 69.3 69.9 0.6 0.9

Salisbury1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.5 154.9 150.1 152.9 2.8 1.9

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791.6 798.1 788.9 797.4 8.5 1.1

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,267.8 3,320.0 3,269.8 3,324.8 55.0 1.7

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,553.2 8,761.2 8,581.4 8,801.9 220.5 2.6

Cape Coral-Fort Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262.3 261.7 264.6 265.9 1.3 0.5

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.2 113.6 110.1 112.9 2.8 2.5

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.2 204.0 199.2 205.6 6.4 3.2

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.5 146.5 143.2 146.4 3.2 2.2

Homosassa Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.5 33.5 33.5 33.4 -0.1 -0.3

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678.9 697.4 682.6 700.1 17.5 2.6

Lakeland-Winter Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219.4 225.9 220.9 227.3 6.4 2.9

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,643.4 2,698.9 2,651.4 2,716.9 65.5 2.5

Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.3 148.4 145.8 150.5 4.7 3.2

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300.6 312.4 303.4 315.1 11.7 3.9

Ocala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.6 104.9 104.2 105.1 0.9 0.9

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,233.2 1,271.5 1,236.6 1,283.3 46.7 3.8

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.5 217.0 214.5 216.5 2.0 0.9

Panama City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.2 84.5 82.7 84.2 1.5 1.8

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.2 177.9 174.9 177.8 2.9 1.7

Port St. Lucie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.4 147.8 147.2 148.5 1.3 0.9

Punta Gorda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.6 50.5 49.2 50.8 1.6 3.3

Sebastian-Vero Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.0 53.1 52.5 53.3 0.8 1.5

Sebring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.9 27.5 27.3 27.8 0.5 1.8

Tallahassee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183.2 184.7 182.4 185.0 2.6 1.4

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,324.9 1,355.8 1,328.7 1,357.8 29.1 2.2

The Villages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.8 28.7 27.9 29.0 1.1 3.9

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,468.5 4,549.5 4,462.9 4,547.7 84.8 1.9

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.5 63.4 63.5 63.6 0.1 0.2

Athens-Clarke County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.6 99.9 93.9 99.0 5.1 5.4

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,729.1 2,790.2 2,735.8 2,791.4 55.6 2.0

Augusta-Richmond County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238.0 244.0 239.1 246.0 6.9 2.9

Brunswick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.0 44.2 43.8 44.4 0.6 1.4

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121.9 123.0 122.3 122.8 0.5 0.4

Dalton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.1 70.5 69.8 70.4 0.6 0.9

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.8 90.9 88.7 91.3 2.6 2.9

Hinesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.4 20.6 20.3 20.5 0.2 1.0

Macon-Bibb County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.3 104.1 104.0 104.2 0.2 0.2

Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.4 41.6 41.3 41.5 0.2 0.5

Savannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178.6 181.5 178.0 181.2 3.2 1.8

Valdosta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.2 57.8 56.6 57.2 0.6 1.1

Warner Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.6 74.8 73.6 74.9 1.3 1.8

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657.9 665.1 659.6 668.2 8.6 1.3

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area, not seasonally adjusted — Continued

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2016 to December

2017p

2016 2017 2016 2017p Number Percent

Hawaii - Continued

Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.1 76.6 75.7 77.0 1.3 1.7

Urban Honolulu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484.4 490.2 486.3 492.5 6.2 1.3

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708.9 726.5 707.2 721.8 14.6 2.1

Boise City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313.2 323.1 313.2 321.2 8.0 2.6

Coeur d’Alene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.8 62.8 61.0 61.8 0.8 1.3

Idaho Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.5 65.4 64.0 65.0 1.0 1.6

Lewiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.1 29.7 29.0 29.1 0.1 0.3

Pocatello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.5 37.3 36.5 37.1 0.6 1.6

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,087.7 6,120.5 6,053.6 6,091.5 37.9 0.6

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.0 95.5 93.4 94.5 1.1 1.2

Carbondale-Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.8 59.4 58.3 58.7 0.4 0.7

Champaign-Urbana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.9 111.1 110.3 110.3 0.0 0.0

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,705.6 4,735.3 4,683.8 4,715.6 31.8 0.7

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.8 28.4 28.7 28.1 -0.6 -2.1

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184.2 186.5 184.1 185.4 1.3 0.7

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.9 51.6 51.8 51.1 -0.7 -1.4

Kankakee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.7 46.9 45.5 46.8 1.3 2.9

Peoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176.0 177.0 174.8 175.9 1.1 0.6

Rockford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.2 152.4 152.8 152.8 0.0 0.0

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.1 116.2 116.7 115.9 -0.8 -0.7

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,144.8 3,169.2 3,123.4 3,152.7 29.3 0.9

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.2 80.0 77.9 78.9 1.0 1.3

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.9 55.3 53.3 55.1 1.8 3.4

Elkhart-Goshen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133.2 140.2 133.5 141.1 7.6 5.7

Evansville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160.7 164.0 159.7 162.8 3.1 1.9

Fort Wayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222.2 224.0 222.4 222.8 0.4 0.2

Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,065.9 1,085.4 1,064.6 1,083.4 18.8 1.8

Kokomo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.6 43.9 42.7 43.7 1.0 2.3

Lafayette-West Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.8 109.4 104.2 106.7 2.5 2.4

Michigan City-La Porte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.0 40.6 41.7 40.6 -1.1 -2.6

Muncie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.6 52.9 52.5 52.7 0.2 0.4

South Bend-Mishawaka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145.1 144.2 144.4 143.9 -0.5 -0.3

Terre Haute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.5 73.4 72.2 73.7 1.5 2.1

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,588.2 1,609.5 1,576.7 1,603.6 26.9 1.7

Ames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.1 56.3 54.3 55.2 0.9 1.7

Cedar Rapids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145.0 146.9 144.8 147.0 2.2 1.5

Des Moines-West Des Moines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363.4 373.4 361.6 371.6 10.0 2.8

Dubuque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.8 60.6 60.7 60.5 -0.2 -0.3

Iowa City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.3 106.0 101.7 104.6 2.9 2.9

Sioux City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.5 88.6 88.3 88.4 0.1 0.1

Waterloo-Cedar Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.4 92.3 92.0 91.6 -0.4 -0.4

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,424.9 1,429.0 1,418.3 1,428.3 10.0 0.7

Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.2 56.0 55.4 55.3 -0.1 -0.2

Manhattan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.3 45.4 45.4 44.5 -0.9 -2.0

Topeka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.0 115.3 113.8 114.5 0.7 0.6

Wichita. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299.9 302.8 298.8 303.8 5.0 1.7

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,947.4 1,969.8 1,952.4 1,971.2 18.8 1.0

Bowling Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.0 78.6 77.3 78.5 1.2 1.6

Elizabethtown-Fort Knox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.7 58.2 57.4 58.1 0.7 1.2

Lexington-Fayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283.4 283.9 284.1 283.7 -0.4 -0.1

Louisville/Jefferson County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671.5 685.7 679.0 688.1 9.1 1.3

Owensboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.6 54.1 53.6 54.2 0.6 1.1

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,982.4 1,997.2 1,980.1 1,989.9 9.8 0.5

Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.5 62.9 63.3 62.9 -0.4 -0.6

Baton Rouge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407.7 416.0 404.5 414.0 9.5 2.3

Hammond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.4 46.1 45.3 45.9 0.6 1.3

Houma-Thibodaux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.2 86.1 87.0 85.8 -1.2 -1.4

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area, not seasonally adjusted — Continued

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2016 to December

2017p

2016 2017 2016 2017p Number Percent

Louisiana - Continued

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199.8 200.6 199.3 199.3 0.0 0.0

Lake Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.3 117.0 110.9 115.6 4.7 4.2

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.8 80.5 79.9 80.3 0.4 0.5

New Orleans-Metairie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579.7 578.7 580.4 578.2 -2.2 -0.4

Shreveport-Bossier City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.9 178.6 180.9 178.7 -2.2 -1.2

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620.6 623.6 615.5 621.3 5.8 0.9

Bangor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.6 67.3 67.0 67.0 0.0 0.0

Lewiston-Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.1 52.6 51.6 52.7 1.1 2.1

Portland-South Portland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.9 206.6 201.8 206.1 4.3 2.1

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,737.9 2,794.7 2,745.0 2,778.1 33.1 1.2

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,411.1 1,426.3 1,411.5 1,420.5 9.0 0.6

California-Lexington Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.3 45.7 45.4 45.8 0.4 0.9

Cumberland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.9 39.4 39.6 39.4 -0.2 -0.5

Hagerstown-Martinsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110.2 109.6 110.4 109.4 -1.0 -0.9

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,608.7 3,676.3 3,602.0 3,667.2 65.2 1.8

Barnstable Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.9 106.4 101.5 104.6 3.1 3.1

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,739.5 2,799.2 2,741.4 2,797.2 55.8 2.0

Leominster-Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.3 52.7 52.1 53.1 1.0 1.9

New Bedford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.4 71.2 69.0 70.9 1.9 2.8

Pittsfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.9 42.4 41.5 42.5 1.0 2.4

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338.9 346.8 338.7 344.6 5.9 1.7

Worcester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287.7 291.4 286.0 291.5 5.5 1.9

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,409.4 4,458.2 4,379.6 4,439.3 59.7 1.4

Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222.7 228.6 222.4 227.6 5.2 2.3

Battle Creek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.0 60.3 59.7 60.2 0.5 0.8

Bay City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.7 36.2 36.7 36.2 -0.5 -1.4

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,003.5 2,037.9 1,999.9 2,032.0 32.1 1.6

Flint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.5 142.0 141.3 141.4 0.1 0.1

Grand Rapids-Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554.4 567.0 552.5 568.4 15.9 2.9

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.3 59.1 57.6 58.9 1.3 2.3

Kalamazoo-Portage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149.4 152.9 149.2 152.6 3.4 2.3

Lansing-East Lansing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238.5 239.6 235.2 237.8 2.6 1.1

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.8 37.7 37.7 37.4 -0.3 -0.8

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.9 43.6 42.3 43.1 0.8 1.9

Muskegon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.0 64.0 62.8 63.9 1.1 1.8

Niles-Benton Harbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.0 62.9 61.3 62.4 1.1 1.8

Saginaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.2 92.0 89.9 91.5 1.6 1.8

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,932.1 2,967.2 2,915.0 2,959.7 44.7 1.5

Duluth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137.1 139.3 135.5 138.3 2.8 2.1

Mankato-North Mankato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.5 59.5 57.8 58.8 1.0 1.7

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,984.3 2,026.6 1,972.4 2,019.1 46.7 2.4

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.4 119.6 119.1 119.2 0.1 0.1

St. Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109.3 111.4 109.3 110.5 1.2 1.1

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,153.3 1,167.5 1,147.9 1,166.8 18.9 1.6

Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155.2 156.7 154.5 156.5 2.0 1.3

Hattiesburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.0 66.3 64.4 66.5 2.1 3.3

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280.8 283.0 281.9 282.9 1.0 0.4

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,887.6 2,919.1 2,881.0 2,909.4 28.4 1.0

Cape Girardeau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.8 42.3 44.8 42.4 -2.4 -5.4

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.6 103.7 101.4 103.4 2.0 2.0

Jefferson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.9 77.6 77.3 76.9 -0.4 -0.5

Joplin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.4 83.4 81.1 83.5 2.4 3.0

Kansas City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,081.8 1,094.4 1,083.7 1,093.3 9.6 0.9

St. Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.4 63.7 64.4 64.1 -0.3 -0.5

St. Louis2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,384.1 1,399.0 1,374.2 1,390.8 16.6 1.2

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.3 218.1 214.7 218.7 4.0 1.9

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470.9 475.4 468.1 476.8 8.7 1.9

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area, not seasonally adjusted — Continued

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2016 to December

2017p

2016 2017 2016 2017p Number Percent

Montana - Continued

Billings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.6 86.7 85.3 86.7 1.4 1.6

Great Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.2 36.2 36.1 36.2 0.1 0.3

Missoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 62.2 60.3 61.3 1.0 1.7

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,030.6 1,039.5 1,026.8 1,037.2 10.4 1.0

Grand Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.8 42.6 42.7 42.4 -0.3 -0.7

Lincoln. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192.1 194.5 191.0 194.5 3.5 1.8

Omaha-Council Bluffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505.2 514.3 504.1 512.7 8.6 1.7

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,327.6 1,366.8 1,325.9 1,369.3 43.4 3.3

Carson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.8 29.5 28.7 29.3 0.6 2.1

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967.8 995.9 968.9 998.8 29.9 3.1

Reno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228.1 231.2 227.4 232.8 5.4 2.4

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677.8 686.0 678.9 684.0 5.1 0.8

Dover-Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.0 56.0 55.7 56.4 0.7 1.3

Manchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.9 113.4 111.4 113.3 1.9 1.7

Portsmouth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.7 92.0 91.1 91.2 0.1 0.1

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,132.3 4,165.6 4,141.2 4,166.4 25.2 0.6

Atlantic City-Hammonton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130.6 133.5 129.5 133.0 3.5 2.7

Ocean City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.4 39.2 36.7 38.6 1.9 5.2

Trenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272.6 270.8 272.1 269.9 -2.2 -0.8

Vineland-Bridgeton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.0 61.8 60.7 62.3 1.6 2.6

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841.9 852.2 840.9 851.7 10.8 1.3

Albuquerque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393.1 397.1 393.0 397.4 4.4 1.1

Farmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.8 48.8 48.6 48.7 0.1 0.2

Las Cruces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.1 73.9 74.1 73.8 -0.3 -0.4

Santa Fe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.2 64.1 63.8 63.7 -0.1 -0.2

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,542.9 9,660.5 9,542.2 9,655.8 113.6 1.2

Albany-Schenectady-Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472.4 475.1 470.3 474.1 3.8 0.8

Binghamton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.4 106.4 105.4 106.1 0.7 0.7

Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570.7 571.5 572.3 567.7 -4.6 -0.8

Elmira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.0 37.2 38.2 37.2 -1.0 -2.6

Glens Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.6 55.9 55.3 55.4 0.1 0.2

Ithaca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.0 67.7 65.6 67.4 1.8 2.7

Kingston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.0 63.7 62.7 63.6 0.9 1.4

New York-Newark-Jersey City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,678.4 9,772.3 9,697.0 9,780.6 83.6 0.9

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540.1 537.5 539.3 535.8 -3.5 -0.6

Syracuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321.2 325.4 320.5 324.3 3.8 1.2

Utica-Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127.7 129.0 127.8 128.7 0.9 0.7

Watertown-Fort Drum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.5 43.1 42.3 43.0 0.7 1.7

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,414.1 4,486.5 4,410.8 4,493.3 82.5 1.9

Asheville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190.8 192.9 189.4 192.7 3.3 1.7

Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.0 63.0 62.3 63.4 1.1 1.8

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,175.5 1,193.3 1,178.3 1,198.5 20.2 1.7

Durham-Chapel Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307.8 316.9 310.4 315.3 4.9 1.6

Fayetteville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.2 132.9 131.5 133.3 1.8 1.4

Goldsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.7 41.7 41.8 41.7 -0.1 -0.2

Greensboro-High Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363.9 365.8 364.4 364.2 -0.2 -0.1

Greenville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.8 79.4 80.1 79.6 -0.5 -0.6

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.1 153.4 152.6 153.1 0.5 0.3

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.4 50.1 49.3 50.0 0.7 1.4

New Bern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.1 45.5 45.2 45.2 0.0 0.0

Raleigh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613.9 632.8 614.5 631.1 16.6 2.7

Rocky Mount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.8 58.1 58.8 57.8 -1.0 -1.7

Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.4 128.7 124.1 128.5 4.4 3.5

Winston-Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262.9 265.4 264.0 266.0 2.0 0.8

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440.1 441.5 435.2 436.3 1.1 0.3

Bismarck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.4 73.7 73.7 73.5 -0.2 -0.3

Fargo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.0 145.8 143.4 144.5 1.1 0.8

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area, not seasonally adjusted — Continued

[In thousands]

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November December

Change from

December 2016 to December

2017p

2016 2017 2016 2017p Number Percent

North Dakota - Continued

Grand Forks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.8 58.1 59.2 57.3 -1.9 -3.2

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,542.4 5,586.8 5,515.8 5,569.8 54.0 1.0

Akron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346.4 344.0 343.7 341.4 -2.3 -0.7

Canton-Massillon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.8 173.8 173.1 173.4 0.3 0.2

Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,092.6 1,112.1 1,097.6 1,104.5 6.9 0.6

Cleveland-Elyria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,061.3 1,066.8 1,060.8 1,064.6 3.8 0.4

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,088.0 1,097.7 1,086.3 1,101.3 15.0 1.4

Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388.0 397.7 389.0 399.8 10.8 2.8

Lima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.3 53.5 53.2 53.5 0.3 0.6

Mansfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.1 52.9 53.3 52.8 -0.5 -0.9

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.0 50.5 49.9 50.1 0.2 0.4

Toledo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316.0 316.5 315.5 315.9 0.4 0.1

Weirton-Steubenville1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.7 41.4 41.4 41.1 -0.3 -0.7

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226.9 225.2 225.0 223.2 -1.8 -0.8

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,662.0 1,686.4 1,661.9 1,681.9 20.0 1.2

Enid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.0 28.7 28.1 28.7 0.6 2.1

Lawton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.3 46.2 46.1 46.0 -0.1 -0.2

Oklahoma City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632.8 644.1 633.3 643.3 10.0 1.6

Tulsa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448.8 456.1 445.1 454.2 9.1 2.0

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,863.3 1,902.7 1,856.1 1,910.5 54.4 2.9

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.3 45.4 44.2 45.8 1.6 3.6

Bend-Redmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.4 81.9 78.8 81.8 3.0 3.8

Corvallis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.6 43.1 42.5 42.9 0.4 0.9

Eugene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160.0 163.6 159.3 164.5 5.2 3.3

Grants Pass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.9 26.2 25.8 26.1 0.3 1.2

Medford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.1 88.5 87.0 89.0 2.0 2.3

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,163.6 1,185.8 1,160.0 1,191.0 31.0 2.7

Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164.4 166.6 162.6 165.5 2.9 1.8

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,972.8 6,046.9 5,958.5 6,039.2 80.7 1.4

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364.7 367.0 364.3 364.1 -0.2 -0.1

Altoona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 60.7 60.9 60.6 -0.3 -0.5

Bloomsburg-Berwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.9 43.2 42.4 42.8 0.4 0.9

Chambersburg-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.4 61.3 60.4 61.7 1.3 2.2

East Stroudsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.7 57.9 57.8 58.1 0.3 0.5

Erie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.6 131.5 128.5 129.7 1.2 0.9

Gettysburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.3 36.5 34.7 36.3 1.6 4.6

Harrisburg-Carlisle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340.7 347.7 341.3 347.1 5.8 1.7

Johnstown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.4 57.0 55.9 56.7 0.8 1.4

Lancaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252.5 256.7 252.1 256.9 4.8 1.9

Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.5 52.4 52.4 52.4 0.0 0.0

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,931.5 2,962.4 2,933.6 2,961.4 27.8 0.9

Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,177.2 1,193.5 1,172.0 1,191.3 19.3 1.6

Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.1 182.3 179.8 182.1 2.3 1.3

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264.4 268.1 263.3 267.1 3.8 1.4

State College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.0 80.8 79.1 79.0 -0.1 -0.1

Williamsport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.9 53.5 53.5 53.1 -0.4 -0.7

York-Hanover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.2 186.0 185.6 186.2 0.6 0.3

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496.9 503.2 493.4 499.0 5.6 1.1

Providence-Warwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591.0 596.9 586.9 591.7 4.8 0.8

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,079.0 2,122.1 2,081.4 2,120.7 39.3 1.9

Charleston-North Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352.0 359.3 352.6 358.2 5.6 1.6

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397.9 400.3 398.0 398.8 0.8 0.2

Florence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.7 89.7 88.8 90.0 1.2 1.4

Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416.1 420.1 416.7 422.6 5.9 1.4

Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.3 77.5 75.8 77.1 1.3 1.7

Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157.1 162.4 154.0 159.4 5.4 3.5

Spartanburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149.8 153.2 150.6 153.3 2.7 1.8

Sumter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.2 39.3 39.4 39.4 0.0 0.0

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area, not seasonally adjusted — Continued

[In thousands]

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November December

Change from

December 2016 to December

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South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435.7 437.4 433.2 436.3 3.1 0.7

Rapid City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.2 67.7 66.3 67.4 1.1 1.7

Sioux Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154.9 153.5 154.2 153.7 -0.5 -0.3

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,026.7 3,063.5 3,027.1 3,060.6 33.5 1.1

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256.5 264.3 256.9 263.2 6.3 2.5

Clarksville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.3 90.7 90.3 90.2 -0.1 -0.1

Cleveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.7 52.7 53.0 53.2 0.2 0.4

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.5 69.9 69.3 70.2 0.9 1.3

Johnson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.9 81.6 80.6 81.4 0.8 1.0

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123.3 123.2 123.4 123.2 -0.2 -0.2

Knoxville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400.4 401.8 396.7 398.8 2.1 0.5

Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650.8 657.4 653.7 655.5 1.8 0.3

Morristown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.7 47.7 46.6 47.1 0.5 1.1

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972.5 997.9 976.3 998.8 22.5 2.3

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,199.8 12,530.6 12,224.9 12,534.3 309.4 2.5

Abilene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.2 69.4 68.5 69.3 0.8 1.2

Amarillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121.6 123.4 122.0 123.4 1.4 1.1

Austin-Round Rock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,018.6 1,047.6 1,018.8 1,048.8 30.0 2.9

Beaumont-Port Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164.3 164.3 164.2 164.2 0.0 0.0

Brownsville-Harlingen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.4 143.2 143.4 143.1 -0.3 -0.2

College Station-Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.5 121.9 116.3 120.7 4.4 3.8

Corpus Christi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191.6 197.3 192.2 197.3 5.1 2.7

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,583.3 3,683.3 3,593.6 3,685.3 91.7 2.6

El Paso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316.0 323.4 316.3 323.3 7.0 2.2

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,021.6 3,075.0 3,036.0 3,082.0 46.0 1.5

Killeen-Temple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.9 150.0 147.3 149.9 2.6 1.8

Laredo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.7 106.0 104.7 105.9 1.2 1.1

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.2 98.8 97.3 98.8 1.5 1.5

Lubbock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147.7 149.2 147.4 148.9 1.5 1.0

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256.1 261.9 258.1 262.4 4.3 1.7

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.9 89.9 87.5 90.2 2.7 3.1

Odessa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.5 70.9 70.1 71.2 1.1 1.6

San Angelo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.1 49.5 49.2 49.5 0.3 0.6

San Antonio-New Braunfels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,031.2 1,061.2 1,034.3 1,067.4 33.1 3.2

Sherman-Denison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.1 47.2 46.8 47.3 0.5 1.1

Texarkana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.1 61.1 61.1 61.1 0.0 0.0

Tyler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.4 108.2 106.8 108.7 1.9 1.8

Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.4 42.6 42.4 42.6 0.2 0.5

Waco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.3 119.1 120.6 119.4 -1.2 -1.0

Wichita Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.7 58.3 57.6 58.5 0.9 1.6

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,456.0 1,496.6 1,458.8 1,497.6 38.8 2.7

Logan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.6 63.3 61.5 63.0 1.5 2.4

Ogden-Clearfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251.5 255.7 250.5 254.5 4.0 1.6

Provo-Orem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244.9 253.7 245.5 254.2 8.7 3.5

St. George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.8 66.3 62.0 65.6 3.6 5.8

Salt Lake City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716.6 735.0 719.5 734.6 15.1 2.1

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315.6 320.2 320.3 322.9 2.6 0.8

Burlington-South Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.9 126.7 125.6 126.6 1.0 0.8

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,964.4 4,000.8 3,953.8 3,991.0 37.2 0.9

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.2 80.5 79.5 80.4 0.9 1.1

Charlottesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.4 119.7 116.4 118.9 2.5 2.1

Harrisonburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.9 70.3 68.7 70.2 1.5 2.2

Lynchburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.4 105.7 105.3 106.0 0.7 0.7

Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671.7 681.6 669.7 681.0 11.3 1.7

Roanoke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163.9 165.9 164.4 165.8 1.4 0.9

Staunton-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.1 51.7 50.9 51.6 0.7 1.4

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773.4 767.5 772.2 765.1 -7.1 -0.9

Winchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.1 64.6 62.6 63.6 1.0 1.6

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,299.4 3,369.7 3,285.9 3,362.0 76.1 2.3

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area, not seasonally adjusted — Continued

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2016 to December

2017p

2016 2017 2016 2017p Number Percent

Washington - Continued

Bellingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.9 95.3 92.3 94.8 2.5 2.7

Bremerton-Silverdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.8 89.6 89.2 90.3 1.1 1.2

Kennewick-Richland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.7 112.9 111.1 112.4 1.3 1.2

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.6 39.7 38.9 39.6 0.7 1.8

Mount Vernon-Anacortes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.6 51.0 49.2 50.4 1.2 2.4

Olympia-Tumwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.1 117.4 115.0 116.9 1.9 1.7

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,983.3 2,032.0 1,980.5 2,037.3 56.8 2.9

Spokane-Spokane Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246.7 248.8 242.4 246.0 3.6 1.5

Walla Walla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.6 29.2 28.2 28.9 0.7 2.5

Wenatchee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.9 45.9 44.3 45.4 1.1 2.5

Yakima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.3 86.8 84.6 86.1 1.5 1.8

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765.4 758.8 753.6 756.2 2.6 0.3

Beckley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.5 44.2 44.8 44.1 -0.7 -1.6

Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.4 120.5 119.2 120.3 1.1 0.9

Huntington-Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.0 140.2 139.5 139.8 0.3 0.2

Morgantown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.6 73.5 72.0 72.8 0.8 1.1

Parkersburg-Vienna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.5 40.2 41.1 40.2 -0.9 -2.2

Wheeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.7 67.3 66.9 67.2 0.3 0.4

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,961.2 3,002.9 2,935.2 2,982.6 47.4 1.6

Appleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126.9 129.9 126.3 129.2 2.9 2.3

Eau Claire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.4 86.3 85.7 85.1 -0.6 -0.7

Fond du Lac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.0 49.4 48.8 48.8 0.0 0.0

Green Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176.0 177.8 174.5 176.8 2.3 1.3

Janesville-Beloit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.6 70.1 67.8 70.0 2.2 3.2

La Crosse-Onalaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.8 81.8 79.6 81.3 1.7 2.1

Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403.0 411.7 400.8 408.1 7.3 1.8

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869.1 876.0 859.7 870.3 10.6 1.2

Oshkosh-Neenah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.7 97.6 97.0 97.5 0.5 0.5

Racine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.4 78.3 77.2 77.5 0.3 0.4

Sheboygan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.5 62.1 62.1 61.8 -0.3 -0.5

Wausau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.6 74.4 73.6 74.7 1.1 1.5

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.1 273.0 274.5 275.1 0.6 0.2

Casper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.6 38.0 37.4 38.1 0.7 1.9

Cheyenne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.4 46.8 46.0 47.0 1.0 2.2

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899.6 860.0 914.6 867.9 -46.7 -5.1

Aguadilla-Isabela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.6 49.1 52.3 49.4 -2.9 -5.5

Arecibo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.2 31.9 34.6 32.0 -2.6 -7.5

Guayama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.4 14.7 15.7 14.7 -1.0 -6.4

Mayaguez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.1 33.0 34.9 33.4 -1.5 -4.3

Ponce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.5 68.2 73.2 69.3 -3.9 -5.3

San German. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.4 20.3 21.8 21.1 -0.7 -3.2

San Juan-Carolina-Caguas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651.3 620.9 662.3 627.8 -34.5 -5.2

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.3 36.0 38.4 36.1 -2.3 -6.0

1 For operational reasons, these interstate areas are listed under the state that accounts for the larger share of the population, which is different from the state that contains

the first principal city.

2 Area boundary does not reflect official OMB delineation.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmark are preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes

available. Area delineations are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 15-01, dated July 15, 2015, and are available on the BLS website at

https://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New England City and Town Areas (NECTAs), while areas in other states are

county-based. Some metropolitan areas lie in two or more states. They are listed under the state containing the first principal city, unless otherwise footnoted. Estimates for

the latest month are subject to revision the following month.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 4. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state, selected metropolitan area, and metropolitan division, not

seasonally adjusted1

[In thousands]

State, area, and division

November December

Change from

December 2016 to December

2017p

2016 2017 2016 2017p Number Percent

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,780.7 17,073.8 16,763.5 17,108.2 344.7 2.1

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,074.9 6,127.9 6,064.6 6,142.9 78.3 1.3

Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,603.7 1,617.3 1,600.4 1,624.0 23.6 1.5

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,471.2 4,510.6 4,464.2 4,518.9 54.7 1.2

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,385.2 2,428.2 2,392.9 2,431.5 38.6 1.6

Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,155.0 1,174.2 1,159.1 1,175.2 16.1 1.4

San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,114.1 1,135.0 1,117.0 1,137.6 20.6 1.8

San Rafael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.1 119.0 116.8 118.7 1.9 1.6

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791.6 798.1 788.9 797.4 8.5 1.1

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,267.8 3,320.0 3,269.8 3,324.8 55.0 1.7

Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599.4 610.8 601.9 611.4 9.5 1.6

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,668.4 2,709.2 2,667.9 2,713.4 45.5 1.7

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,553.2 8,761.2 8,581.4 8,801.9 220.5 2.6

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,643.4 2,698.9 2,651.4 2,716.9 65.5 2.5

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836.5 858.6 840.4 860.6 20.2 2.4

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,180.6 1,209.8 1,185.6 1,220.6 35.0 3.0

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626.3 630.5 625.4 635.7 10.3 1.6

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,087.7 6,120.5 6,053.6 6,091.5 37.9 0.6

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,705.6 4,735.3 4,683.8 4,715.6 31.8 0.7

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,755.3 3,779.3 3,741.3 3,770.0 28.7 0.8

Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259.2 259.7 253.7 257.1 3.4 1.3

Gary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.5 278.0 281.6 274.5 -7.1 -2.5

Lake County-Kenosha County2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408.6 418.3 407.2 414.0 6.8 1.7

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,608.7 3,676.3 3,602.0 3,667.2 65.2 1.8

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,739.5 2,799.2 2,741.4 2,797.2 55.8 2.0

Boston-Cambridge-Newton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,842.9 1,890.6 1,845.1 1,888.5 43.4 2.4

Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.9 83.3 82.8 83.1 0.3 0.4

Framingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.7 175.9 174.3 176.3 2.0 1.1

Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.7 68.3 66.4 68.8 2.4 3.6

Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.7 84.1 83.1 83.6 0.5 0.6

Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155.3 157.2 155.6 157.9 2.3 1.5

Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.6 46.3 45.5 46.2 0.7 1.5

Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.3 133.4 130.3 132.7 2.4 1.8

Peabody-Salem-Beverly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.2 99.5 98.6 100.1 1.5 1.5

Taunton-Middleborough-Norton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.2 60.6 59.7 60.0 0.3 0.5

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,409.4 4,458.2 4,379.6 4,439.3 59.7 1.4

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,003.5 2,037.9 1,999.9 2,032.0 32.1 1.6

Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756.9 767.5 756.1 765.6 9.5 1.3

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,246.6 1,270.4 1,243.8 1,266.4 22.6 1.8

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,542.9 9,660.5 9,542.2 9,655.8 113.6 1.2

New York-Newark-Jersey City2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,678.4 9,772.3 9,697.0 9,780.6 83.6 0.9

Dutchess County-Putnam County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.6 149.8 145.5 149.3 3.8 2.6

Nassau County-Suffolk County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,354.0 1,353.9 1,352.2 1,357.1 4.9 0.4

Newark3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,203.4 1,195.6 1,203.1 1,193.8 -9.3 -0.8

New York-Jersey City-White Plains2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,974.4 7,073.0 6,996.2 7,080.4 84.2 1.2

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,972.8 6,046.9 5,958.5 6,039.2 80.7 1.4

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,931.5 2,962.4 2,933.6 2,961.4 27.8 0.9

Camden3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543.4 549.5 544.7 549.2 4.5 0.8

Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,065.9 1,077.8 1,067.2 1,078.7 11.5 1.1

Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959.0 968.0 958.1 967.0 8.9 0.9

Wilmington3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363.2 367.1 363.6 366.5 2.9 0.8

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,199.8 12,530.6 12,224.9 12,534.3 309.4 2.5

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,583.3 3,683.3 3,593.6 3,685.3 91.7 2.6

Dallas-Plano-Irving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,557.3 2,632.1 2,566.5 2,628.3 61.8 2.4

Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,026.0 1,051.2 1,027.1 1,057.0 29.9 2.9

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,299.4 3,369.7 3,285.9 3,362.0 76.1 2.3

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,983.3 2,032.0 1,980.5 2,037.3 56.8 2.9

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,671.1 1,711.7 1,669.5 1,715.2 45.7 2.7

Tacoma-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312.2 320.3 311.0 322.1 11.1 3.6

1 These 11 areas contain all of the 38 metropolitan divisions.

2 Part of the area (or division) is in one or more adjacent states.

3 All of the division is in one or more adjacent states.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmark are preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes available. Area definitions are

based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 15-01, dated July 15, 2015, and available at https://www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New

England City and Town Areas (NECTAs), while areas in other states are county-based. Some metropolitan areas lie in two or more states. They are listed under the state containing the first principal

city. Metropolitan divisions are listed under their metropolitan areas. Some divisions lie in more than one state, and some, like Camden, NJ, are totally outside the states under which their metropolitan

areas are listed.For Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, the metropolitan area and division titles are identical. Estimates for the latest month are subject to revision the following month.
Map 1. Unemployment rates for metropolitan areas, not seasonally ad

December 2017

(U.S. rate = 3.9 percent)

Map includes data for 388 metropolitan areas basedon Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 15- 01. Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New England City and Town areas (NECTAs), while areas in other states are county-based.

NOTE:
Map 2. Over-the-year percentage change in employment, by metropolitan area, 

not seasonally adjusted, December 2017

(U.S. average = 1.6 percent)

Above U.S. average

U.S. average or below

NOTE: Map includes data for 388

metropolitan areas based on Office of

Managment and Budget Bulletin No. 15-

01. Areas in the six New England states

are Metropolitan New England City and

Town areas (NECTAs), while areas in

other states are county based.