For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Wednesday, October 3, 2018 USDL-18-1585 

Technical information:

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METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT — AUGUST 2018 

Unemployment rates were lower in August than a year earlier in 340 of the 388 metropolitan areas,

higher in 35 areas, and unchanged in 13 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Fiftyseven areas had jobless rates of less than 3.0 percent and two areas had rates of at least 10.0 percent. 

Nonfarm payroll employment increased over the year in 60 metropolitan areas and was essentially 

unchanged in 328 areas. The national unemployment rate in August was 3.9 percent, not seasonally 

adjusted, down from 4.5 percent a year earlier. 

Metropolitan Area Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In August, Ames, IA, had the lowest unemployment rate, 1.7 percent. Yuma, AZ, and El Centro, CA, 

had the highest unemployment rates, 22.0 percent and 20.3 percent, respectively. A total of 189 areas 

had August jobless rates above the U.S. rate of 3.9 percent, 186 areas had rates below it, and 13 areas 

had rates equal to that of the nation. (See table 1 and map 1.) 

The largest over-the-year unemployment rate decreases occurred in Bay City, MI, and Muskegon, MI 

(-2.0 percentage points each). Seventy-five additional areas had rate declines of at least 1.0 percentage 

point. Colorado Springs, CO, had the largest over-the-year rate increase in August (+0.9 percentage 

point). 

Of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census population of 1 million or more, Minneapolis-St. PaulBloomington, MN-WI, had the lowest unemployment rate in August, 2.5 percent. New OrleansMetairie, LA, had the highest jobless rate among the large areas, 5.3 percent, closely followed by 

Cleveland-Elyria, OH, 5.2 percent. Forty-six large areas had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases

and five had increases. The largest rate decrease occurred in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI (-1.4 

percentage points). The largest over-the-year rate increase was in Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO (+0.6 

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 August, San Francisco-Redwood City-South 

San Francisco, CA, had the lowest unemployment rate among the divisions, 2.3 percent, closely 
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followed by San Rafael, CA, 2.4 percent. Philadelphia, PA, had the highest division rate, 5.5 percent.

(See table 2.)

In August, 35 metropolitan divisions had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases, 1 had an increase, 

and 2 had no change. The largest rate decline occurred in Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, IL

(-1.8 percentage points). The lone over-the-year rate increase was marginal (+0.1 percentage point in 

Nashua, NH-MA).

Metropolitan Area Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In August, 60 metropolitan areas had over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment and 328 

were essentially unchanged. The largest over-the-year employment increases occurred in New YorkNewark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA (+136,100), Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (+114,900), and 

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX (+110,200). The largest over-the-year percentage gains in 

employment occurred in Midland, TX (+9.2 percent), Manhattan, KS (+8.2 percent), and Atlantic CityHammonton, NJ (+6.9 percent). (See table 3 and map 2.) 

Over the year, nonfarm employment rose in 37 of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census 

population of 1 million or more, while employment remained essentially unchanged in 14. The largest 

over-the-year percentage increases in employment in these large metropolitan areas occurred in 

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL (+4.1 percent), Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (+3.9 percent), and 

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX, and Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV (+3.7 percent each).

Metropolitan Division Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In August, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 15 of the 38 metropolitan divisions over the year 

and remained essentially unchanged in 23. The largest over-the-year increase in employment among the 

metropolitan divisions occurred in New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ (+108,500), followed by 

Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX (+91,500), and Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA (+67,000). (See table 4.)

The largest over-the-year percentage increase occurred in Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA (+4.0 percent), 

followed by Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX (+3.6 percent), and Tacoma-Lakewood, WA (+3.4 percent). 

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The State Employment and Unemployment news release for September is scheduled to be

released on Friday, October 19, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT). The Metropolitan Area Employment 

and Unemployment news release for September is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, 

November 6, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. (EST).
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 2017 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.

Beginning with the release of January 2018 preliminary 

estimates, payroll employment data are seasonally adjusted 

concurrently, using all available estimates including those for 

the current month, to develop sample-based seasonal factors. 

Concurrent sample-based factors are created every month for 

the current month's preliminary estimate as well as the

previous month's final estimate in order to incorporate realtime estimates. Previously, the sample-based seasonal factors 

were forecasted once annually at the beginning of the year and 

applied to the sample-based estimates for the 12 months of the 

year.

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.

Use of error measures

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. Changes in metropolitan area 

nonfarm payroll employment are cited in the analysis of this 

release only if they have been determined to be statistically 

significant at the 90-percent confidence level. Measures of 

sampling error for the total nonfarm employment series are 

available for metropolitan areas and metropolitan divisions at 

www.bls.gov/web/laus/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 at 

the supersector level and for the private service-providing, 

goods-producing, total private and total nonfarm levels are 

available on the BLS website at

www.bls.gov/web/laus/790stderr.htm. Information on recent 

benchmark revisions is available online at 

www.bls.gov/web/laus/benchmark.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 online 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

July August Number Percent of labor force

2017 2018 2017 2018p

July August July August

2017 2018 2017 2018p 2017 2018 2017 2018p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,173,759 2,217,339 2,158,653 2,204,787 100,246 97,615 93,099 91,950 4.6 4.4 4.3 4.2

Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . 45,684 46,808 45,386 46,444 2,335 2,430 2,203 2,262 5.1 5.2 4.9 4.9

Auburn-Opelika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,019 73,175 72,707 73,825 3,010 3,028 2,885 2,888 4.1 4.1 4.0 3.9

Birmingham-Hoover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537,270 548,960 532,228 544,341 22,277 21,324 20,989 20,485 4.1 3.9 3.9 3.8

Daphne-Fairhope-Foley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,556 98,009 92,994 96,110 3,585 3,607 3,543 3,527 3.8 3.7 3.8 3.7

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,765 70,535 68,176 70,118 3,014 2,817 2,838 2,691 4.4 4.0 4.2 3.8

Dothan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,382 63,375 62,149 62,694 2,738 2,827 2,658 2,732 4.4 4.5 4.3 4.4

Florence-Muscle Shoals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,701 65,568 64,407 64,960 3,260 3,301 3,065 3,074 5.0 5.0 4.8 4.7

Gadsden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,736 43,545 42,412 42,914 2,008 1,955 1,888 1,867 4.7 4.5 4.5 4.4

Huntsville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216,015 224,494 214,894 224,986 8,671 8,687 8,157 8,194 4.0 3.9 3.8 3.6

Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186,095 188,967 184,692 187,413 10,121 10,131 9,385 9,282 5.4 5.4 5.1 5.0

Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172,251 175,477 171,016 173,831 7,900 7,508 7,051 7,238 4.6 4.3 4.1 4.2

Tuscaloosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,645 112,259 112,561 114,217 5,551 5,232 4,761 4,587 4.9 4.7 4.2 4.0

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373,884 366,761 368,916 360,804 24,848 21,143 23,546 19,390 6.6 5.8 6.4 5.4

Anchorage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204,066 200,688 200,222 196,002 12,919 10,911 12,234 10,047 6.3 5.4 6.1 5.1

Fairbanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,102 46,175 47,118 46,484 2,764 2,358 2,611 2,068 5.9 5.1 5.5 4.4

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,309,906 3,372,025 3,314,163 3,363,285 169,559 169,248 171,931 178,100 5.1 5.0 5.2 5.3

Flagstaff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,649 77,253 75,699 75,642 4,430 4,425 4,187 4,376 5.8 5.7 5.5 5.8

Lake Havasu City-Kingman. . . . . . . . . . . . 83,458 85,553 83,271 84,846 4,853 4,814 4,953 5,082 5.8 5.6 5.9 6.0

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,304,786 2,354,881 2,307,376 2,349,737 100,022 100,595 101,233 106,213 4.3 4.3 4.4 4.5

Prescott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,828 105,079 102,252 103,016 4,527 4,603 4,664 4,914 4.4 4.4 4.6 4.8

Sierra Vista-Douglas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,207 48,281 48,701 48,074 2,780 2,729 2,863 2,906 5.8 5.7 5.9 6.0

Tucson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472,599 479,175 470,143 474,870 21,796 21,774 21,874 22,714 4.6 4.5 4.7 4.8

Yuma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,351 94,976 97,508 97,430 20,726 20,050 21,836 21,434 21.5 21.1 22.4 22.0

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,373,322 1,364,018 1,360,376 1,344,473 57,080 51,940 51,805 45,168 4.2 3.8 3.8 3.4

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers. . . . . . . . . 277,684 278,682 274,404 274,642 8,899 7,962 8,087 6,990 3.2 2.9 2.9 2.5

Fort Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,153 119,451 120,596 118,266 5,384 4,723 5,213 4,277 4.4 4.0 4.3 3.6

Hot Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,000 41,197 40,994 40,055 1,898 1,675 1,678 1,477 4.5 4.1 4.1 3.7

Jonesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,460 65,777 64,719 64,682 2,378 2,193 2,191 1,854 3.6 3.3 3.4 2.9

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway. . . . 365,269 364,607 359,772 355,989 13,272 12,085 12,131 10,839 3.6 3.3 3.4 3.0

Pine Bluff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,012 35,304 35,457 34,513 2,039 1,917 1,846 1,625 5.7 5.4 5.2 4.7

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,413,562 19,469,829 19,376,487 19,368,137 995,611 857,023 959,037 825,595 5.1 4.4 4.9 4.3

Bakersfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384,859 385,259 388,255 386,228 35,709 31,372 33,385 28,155 9.3 8.1 8.6 7.3

Chico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,370 103,526 102,231 103,253 6,275 5,210 5,959 4,804 6.1 5.0 5.8 4.7

El Centro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,263 72,015 74,218 73,944 15,031 13,749 16,342 15,027 20.8 19.1 22.0 20.3

Fresno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451,774 457,585 451,731 451,672 36,669 32,485 34,686 29,603 8.1 7.1 7.7 6.6

Hanford-Corcoran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,688 58,014 58,349 57,532 4,868 4,316 4,466 3,836 8.3 7.4 7.7 6.7

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . 6,777,366 6,792,028 6,757,630 6,742,613 337,516 314,534 324,482 309,817 5.0 4.6 4.8 4.6

Madera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,917 60,993 61,396 61,293 4,868 4,246 4,479 3,790 8.0 7.0 7.3 6.2

Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,666 115,735 116,155 117,209 10,323 9,262 9,494 8,235 9.1 8.0 8.2 7.0

Modesto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245,173 246,040 247,382 245,307 18,716 16,430 17,024 14,498 7.6 6.7 6.9 5.9

Napa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,594 74,715 74,909 73,950 2,769 2,198 2,644 2,048 3.7 2.9 3.5 2.8

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. . . . . . . 425,120 422,657 423,454 421,761 20,339 16,416 20,394 16,369 4.8 3.9 4.8 3.9

Redding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,177 74,324 74,687 74,937 4,333 3,662 4,149 3,499 5.8 4.9 5.6 4.7

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. . . . . . 2,021,898 2,042,492 2,020,970 2,037,431 114,853 93,521 112,544 90,705 5.7 4.6 5.6 4.5

Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade. . . 1,093,170 1,089,044 1,088,671 1,083,803 52,802 42,212 50,763 40,822 4.8 3.9 4.7 3.8

Salinas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230,918 231,859 228,608 228,869 12,567 10,897 11,769 9,888 5.4 4.7 5.1 4.3

San Diego-Carlsbad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,594,546 1,592,287 1,588,585 1,584,075 70,688 56,298 68,291 54,269 4.4 3.5 4.3 3.4

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . 2,592,172 2,594,533 2,583,154 2,581,445 95,323 74,070 92,821 71,540 3.7 2.9 3.6 2.8

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. . . . . . . 1,080,969 1,095,087 1,077,690 1,088,617 38,775 30,202 37,479 29,060 3.6 2.8 3.5 2.7

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo

Grande. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,365 141,971 138,914 138,391 5,714 4,453 5,494 4,211 4.0 3.1 4.0 3.0

Santa Cruz-Watsonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146,666 147,369 144,915 145,150 7,390 6,156 6,892 5,677 5.0 4.2 4.8 3.9

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . 219,051 217,317 217,573 215,380 9,757 8,152 9,300 7,727 4.5 3.8 4.3 3.6

Santa Rosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263,774 265,184 264,707 265,749 9,634 7,539 9,189 7,173 3.7 2.8 3.5 2.7

Stockton-Lodi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324,981 327,411 327,057 328,099 22,962 19,538 21,723 18,254 7.1 6.0 6.6 5.6

Vallejo-Fairfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210,052 208,145 210,090 206,881 10,626 8,495 10,260 8,056 5.1 4.1 4.9 3.9

Visalia-Porterville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204,064 208,268 205,251 207,687 21,031 19,501 20,432 18,000 10.3 9.4 10.0 8.7

Yuba City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,851 75,214 76,484 75,170 5,724 4,953 5,273 4,421 7.5 6.6 6.9 5.9

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,019,606 3,126,122 3,018,153 3,101,394 84,207 95,289 83,673 106,094 2.8 3.0 2.8 3.4

Boulder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186,734 191,370 187,198 191,730 4,601 5,197 4,542 6,014 2.5 2.7 2.4 3.1

Colorado Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341,447 358,394 341,375 355,492 11,287 13,359 10,991 14,452 3.3 3.7 3.2 4.1

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,606,332 1,659,292 1,606,170 1,648,015 43,261 48,683 43,415 54,685 2.7 2.9 2.7 3.3

Fort Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196,900 204,057 197,196 203,186 4,607 5,141 4,670 6,095 2.3 2.5 2.4 3.0

Grand Junction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,042 75,885 74,442 75,669 2,894 2,932 2,766 3,022 3.9 3.9 3.7 4.0

Greeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156,723 164,321 158,212 164,399 4,168 4,617 4,130 5,191 2.7 2.8 2.6 3.2

Pueblo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,265 75,569 73,992 74,674 3,407 3,619 3,320 3,795 4.6 4.8 4.5 5.1

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,951,246 1,944,408 1,920,059 1,905,326 94,974 86,499 89,647 77,120 4.9 4.4 4.7 4.0

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk. . . . . . . . . . . 481,932 478,655 472,780 468,303 23,111 21,032 21,783 18,743 4.8 4.4 4.6 4.0

Danbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,564 110,543 108,555 108,220 4,466 4,124 4,146 3,634 4.0 3.7 3.8 3.4

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. . . . 634,038 634,349 624,740 621,976 31,441 28,548 29,819 25,610 5.0 4.5 4.8 4.1

New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333,646 331,817 328,463 324,631 16,470 14,838 15,416 13,178 4.9 4.5 4.7 4.1

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

July August Number Percent of labor force

2017 2018 2017 2018p

July August July August

2017 2018 2017 2018p 2017 2018 2017 2018p

Connecticut - Continued

Norwich-New London-Westerly. . . . . . . . . 148,804 148,526 146,934 146,228 6,877 6,210 6,412 5,453 4.6 4.2 4.4 3.7

Waterbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,050 112,737 112,291 110,577 6,669 6,265 6,460 5,684 5.8 5.6 5.8 5.1

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483,010 492,985 480,786 488,689 23,342 20,650 22,830 20,790 4.8 4.2 4.7 4.3

Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,315 80,000 76,803 79,243 4,338 3,841 4,243 3,855 5.6 4.8 5.5 4.9

Salisbury1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203,058 199,674 200,033 196,794 9,315 9,043 9,033 8,663 4.6 4.5 4.5 4.4

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407,291 414,707 400,601 401,407 26,933 24,791 25,560 24,622 6.6 6.0 6.4 6.1

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. . . . . . . 3,438,343 3,471,575 3,392,976 3,405,508 134,363 122,021 130,626 118,423 3.9 3.5 3.8 3.5

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,164,624 10,319,333 10,105,593 10,191,327 444,483 409,001 439,388 383,417 4.4 4.0 4.3 3.8

Cape Coral-Fort Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334,546 338,747 333,807 334,892 14,206 12,902 13,833 12,277 4.2 3.8 4.1 3.7

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. . . . 130,023 135,373 127,988 132,061 4,509 4,088 4,393 3,829 3.5 3.0 3.4 2.9

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299,811 305,861 298,367 302,934 13,621 12,453 13,481 11,681 4.5 4.1 4.5 3.9

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,940 143,714 140,050 141,509 5,681 5,199 5,447 4,817 4.0 3.6 3.9 3.4

Homosassa Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,495 47,690 48,145 48,065 2,893 2,726 2,846 2,608 6.1 5.7 5.9 5.4

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773,117 793,744 768,587 783,591 32,709 30,351 32,042 27,594 4.2 3.8 4.2 3.5

Lakeland-Winter Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293,402 299,988 293,900 298,313 14,588 13,680 14,417 12,828 5.0 4.6 4.9 4.3

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,161,908 3,172,468 3,129,204 3,116,923 142,866 128,584 142,970 120,774 4.5 4.1 4.6 3.9

Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island. . . . . . . . 169,435 168,718 169,344 167,634 7,617 7,012 7,904 7,063 4.5 4.2 4.7 4.2

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton. . . . . . . . . 360,491 368,514 359,869 363,999 14,701 13,622 14,649 13,042 4.1 3.7 4.1 3.6

Ocala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134,690 136,968 133,670 135,541 6,936 6,505 6,810 6,104 5.1 4.7 5.1 4.5

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford. . . . . . . . . . . 1,314,362 1,364,524 1,308,075 1,347,926 52,345 48,886 51,224 45,725 4.0 3.6 3.9 3.4

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. . . . . . . . . 272,917 275,600 270,875 272,332 12,025 10,768 11,823 10,056 4.4 3.9 4.4 3.7

Panama City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,456 100,354 96,990 98,235 3,959 3,624 3,898 3,308 4.1 3.6 4.0 3.4

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. . . . . . . . . . . 225,108 228,993 224,442 226,659 9,568 8,886 9,232 8,081 4.3 3.9 4.1 3.6

Port St. Lucie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211,032 213,047 210,865 211,686 10,677 10,022 10,516 9,372 5.1 4.7 5.0 4.4

Punta Gorda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,814 71,160 69,768 70,327 3,390 3,137 3,410 3,052 4.9 4.4 4.9 4.3

Sebastian-Vero Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,216 64,142 63,018 63,325 3,437 3,252 3,450 3,087 5.4 5.1 5.5 4.9

Sebring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,236 34,817 35,995 35,173 2,193 2,023 2,164 1,895 6.2 5.8 6.0 5.4

Tallahassee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190,514 193,071 187,965 190,508 8,197 7,651 7,867 7,002 4.3 4.0 4.2 3.7

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. . . . . . 1,520,403 1,548,581 1,513,659 1,535,970 62,669 58,966 61,553 55,502 4.1 3.8 4.1 3.6

The Villages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,256 30,614 30,497 30,663 1,900 1,729 1,926 1,677 6.3 5.6 6.3 5.5

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,090,447 5,196,412 5,060,417 5,124,948 255,534 209,298 248,105 192,615 5.0 4.0 4.9 3.8

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,704 69,125 67,629 67,881 3,993 3,448 3,935 3,175 5.9 5.0 5.8 4.7

Athens-Clarke County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,342 104,354 100,737 103,008 4,940 3,904 4,692 3,581 4.9 3.7 4.7 3.5

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell. . . . . . . . . 3,056,206 3,127,974 3,038,498 3,085,957 146,525 118,814 143,397 110,934 4.8 3.8 4.7 3.6

Augusta-Richmond County. . . . . . . . . . . . . 266,174 273,482 265,932 269,090 14,077 11,938 13,995 11,394 5.3 4.4 5.3 4.2

Brunswick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,438 54,855 53,597 53,649 2,642 2,057 2,644 1,974 4.9 3.7 4.9 3.7

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,093 127,711 124,078 125,887 7,226 6,163 7,090 5,763 5.8 4.8 5.7 4.6

Dalton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,467 62,867 60,889 61,523 3,406 3,148 3,362 2,582 5.5 5.0 5.5 4.2

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,252 104,822 100,441 103,888 4,195 3,337 4,121 3,070 4.1 3.2 4.1 3.0

Hinesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,618 34,175 33,770 33,910 1,778 1,464 1,767 1,375 5.3 4.3 5.2 4.1

Macon-Bibb County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105,965 106,947 105,593 105,597 5,702 4,591 5,700 4,304 5.4 4.3 5.4 4.1

Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,785 45,264 44,203 44,479 2,772 2,113 2,372 1,869 6.2 4.7 5.4 4.2

Savannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188,424 188,672 186,191 185,202 8,680 6,999 8,504 6,642 4.6 3.7 4.6 3.6

Valdosta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,518 66,609 64,318 65,599 3,254 2,768 3,191 2,563 5.0 4.2 5.0 3.9

Warner Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,289 86,358 85,132 85,378 4,344 3,502 4,277 3,314 5.1 4.1 5.0 3.9

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688,438 690,125 682,136 683,846 16,219 15,151 14,814 14,754 2.4 2.2 2.2 2.2

Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,817 88,778 87,384 87,810 2,214 1,919 1,964 1,814 2.5 2.2 2.2 2.1

Urban Honolulu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471,224 471,241 466,330 467,966 10,374 9,554 9,845 9,641 2.2 2.0 2.1 2.1

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845,036 866,913 839,691 854,464 24,691 23,870 24,036 19,695 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.3

Boise City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349,199 360,894 348,211 356,217 10,357 9,991 10,098 8,196 3.0 2.8 2.9 2.3

Coeur d’Alene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,480 79,396 77,050 78,398 2,515 2,417 2,539 2,046 3.2 3.0 3.3 2.6

Idaho Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,851 70,485 68,373 69,283 1,719 1,595 1,674 1,363 2.5 2.3 2.4 2.0

Lewiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,603 32,032 31,479 31,557 953 965 924 816 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.6

Pocatello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,187 42,387 40,739 41,546 1,182 1,145 1,133 944 2.9 2.7 2.8 2.3

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,567,081 6,561,454 6,504,014 6,460,016 335,872 280,091 344,193 269,055 5.1 4.3 5.3 4.2

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,830 96,642 95,060 95,559 4,166 4,027 4,012 3,920 4.3 4.2 4.2 4.1

Carbondale-Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,408 59,592 58,704 58,447 2,982 2,898 2,959 2,887 5.0 4.9 5.0 4.9

Champaign-Urbana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,311 120,185 114,320 116,460 5,376 5,343 5,142 5,196 4.6 4.4 4.5 4.5

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,985,235 4,957,787 4,933,346 4,883,652 255,098 204,010 265,755 193,803 5.1 4.1 5.4 4.0

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,298 34,597 33,948 33,841 2,332 2,040 2,306 2,003 6.8 5.9 6.8 5.9

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island1. . . . . . . . . 192,804 194,957 190,939 192,867 8,114 7,278 8,242 7,468 4.2 3.7 4.3 3.9

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,606 50,785 49,320 49,701 2,851 2,819 2,895 2,745 5.7 5.6 5.9 5.5

Kankakee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,073 59,078 55,790 58,447 2,860 2,746 2,858 2,775 5.1 4.6 5.1 4.7

Peoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178,387 180,204 177,528 177,740 9,730 8,775 9,514 8,778 5.5 4.9 5.4 4.9

Rockford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166,424 168,435 164,391 166,580 9,319 8,454 9,222 8,770 5.6 5.0 5.6 5.3

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,811 111,725 112,188 112,325 4,765 4,490 4,786 4,704 4.3 4.0 4.3 4.2

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,355,414 3,446,083 3,332,392 3,409,605 120,612 121,497 131,017 127,488 3.6 3.5 3.9 3.7

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,245 72,342 75,092 75,167 3,046 3,157 3,365 3,350 4.1 4.4 4.5 4.5

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,900 46,764 44,499 46,643 1,269 1,229 1,383 1,308 2.8 2.6 3.1 2.8

Elkhart-Goshen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,737 120,648 112,937 119,173 2,981 3,178 3,245 3,502 2.6 2.6 2.9 2.9

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

July August Number Percent of labor force

2017 2018 2017 2018p

July August July August

2017 2018 2017 2018p 2017 2018 2017 2018p

Indiana - Continued

Evansville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163,395 168,517 161,135 165,085 5,697 5,590 5,970 5,804 3.5 3.3 3.7 3.5

Fort Wayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214,618 221,363 212,461 220,396 7,066 7,130 7,755 7,543 3.3 3.2 3.7 3.4

Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson. . . . . . . . . . 1,059,000 1,089,987 1,050,100 1,079,564 36,017 36,260 39,046 37,900 3.4 3.3 3.7 3.5

Kokomo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,230 40,418 37,950 40,226 1,428 1,402 1,558 1,470 3.7 3.5 4.1 3.7

Lafayette-West Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,921 112,483 110,550 112,432 3,746 3,771 4,136 3,980 3.5 3.4 3.7 3.5

Michigan City-La Porte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,212 48,603 47,716 47,664 2,038 2,045 2,200 2,117 4.2 4.2 4.6 4.4

Muncie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,916 55,888 55,321 55,371 2,435 2,266 2,648 2,387 4.5 4.1 4.8 4.3

South Bend-Mishawaka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157,268 159,835 155,113 156,872 6,221 6,177 6,491 6,303 4.0 3.9 4.2 4.0

Terre Haute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,462 78,589 75,824 77,978 3,321 3,826 3,564 3,765 4.3 4.9 4.7 4.8

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,698,474 1,713,981 1,679,665 1,681,661 51,144 41,736 52,490 40,416 3.0 2.4 3.1 2.4

Ames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,620 55,927 55,564 56,675 1,258 1,022 1,309 939 2.3 1.8 2.4 1.7

Cedar Rapids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,867 145,230 142,483 142,744 4,673 3,859 4,861 3,765 3.2 2.7 3.4 2.6

Des Moines-West Des Moines. . . . . . . . . 352,756 365,036 348,785 358,396 10,130 8,484 10,109 8,044 2.9 2.3 2.9 2.2

Dubuque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,476 54,519 53,975 53,889 1,541 1,222 1,596 1,192 2.8 2.2 3.0 2.2

Iowa City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,034 98,023 97,680 97,424 2,602 2,018 2,719 1,933 2.7 2.1 2.8 2.0

Sioux City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,209 92,359 90,045 90,157 2,940 2,399 2,852 2,162 3.2 2.6 3.2 2.4

Waterloo-Cedar Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,151 88,182 87,123 86,712 2,980 2,329 3,127 2,299 3.4 2.6 3.6 2.7

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,501,319 1,500,325 1,477,378 1,476,834 62,362 59,107 59,507 51,492 4.2 3.9 4.0 3.5

Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,476 63,426 62,776 65,146 2,436 2,368 2,278 2,054 3.8 3.7 3.6 3.2

Manhattan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,290 45,171 44,536 47,255 1,704 1,611 1,534 1,399 3.8 3.6 3.4 3.0

Topeka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,078 121,600 120,566 119,249 4,988 4,841 4,738 4,239 4.1 4.0 3.9 3.6

Wichita. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313,546 313,280 307,996 307,164 15,019 13,542 14,293 11,791 4.8 4.3 4.6 3.8

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,071,239 2,091,089 2,047,213 2,056,845 110,880 103,479 98,105 84,339 5.4 4.9 4.8 4.1

Bowling Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,333 83,623 81,165 83,733 3,850 3,708 3,587 3,058 4.7 4.4 4.4 3.7

Elizabethtown-Fort Knox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,216 68,998 66,904 67,639 3,627 3,375 3,050 2,665 5.3 4.9 4.6 3.9

Lexington-Fayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271,752 277,100 269,021 271,884 11,397 10,775 10,119 9,017 4.2 3.9 3.8 3.3

Louisville/Jefferson County. . . . . . . . . . . . . 675,409 679,953 664,469 666,771 31,526 30,469 28,144 25,356 4.7 4.5 4.2 3.8

Owensboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,621 57,309 55,851 56,292 2,733 2,526 2,479 2,154 4.8 4.4 4.4 3.8

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,136,012 2,159,051 2,118,448 2,115,837 119,626 126,696 118,483 117,317 5.6 5.9 5.6 5.5

Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,605 65,739 64,929 64,231 4,097 4,165 4,050 3,919 6.2 6.3 6.2 6.1

Baton Rouge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421,620 430,122 420,920 423,600 20,975 22,982 20,757 21,244 5.0 5.3 4.9 5.0

Hammond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,598 56,570 55,545 55,873 3,596 3,704 3,466 3,414 6.5 6.5 6.2 6.1

Houma-Thibodaux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,515 90,678 89,279 88,357 5,119 5,239 5,071 4,796 5.7 5.8 5.7 5.4

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217,457 216,814 214,533 212,661 12,769 12,753 12,558 11,682 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.5

Lake Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,800 117,834 115,055 115,994 4,824 5,303 4,820 4,869 4.2 4.5 4.2 4.2

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,684 81,719 79,848 79,909 4,526 4,999 4,529 4,692 5.6 6.1 5.7 5.9

New Orleans-Metairie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601,519 612,618 597,884 599,150 32,062 34,291 32,218 31,968 5.3 5.6 5.4 5.3

Shreveport-Bossier City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190,816 191,678 189,149 187,695 11,370 11,861 11,324 11,134 6.0 6.2 6.0 5.9

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720,418 728,259 718,153 722,902 23,499 23,890 20,058 20,718 3.3 3.3 2.8 2.9

Bangor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,761 71,177 70,289 70,099 2,560 2,818 2,152 2,177 3.6 4.0 3.1 3.1

Lewiston-Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,351 56,804 56,065 56,286 1,855 1,928 1,599 1,703 3.3 3.4 2.9 3.0

Portland-South Portland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214,354 218,059 214,051 216,933 5,673 5,913 4,942 5,269 2.6 2.7 2.3 2.4

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,274,692 3,284,643 3,238,148 3,237,791 140,435 145,527 136,940 135,660 4.3 4.4 4.2 4.2

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. . . . . . . . . . . 1,526,827 1,531,704 1,512,546 1,515,284 68,145 70,042 67,464 66,781 4.5 4.6 4.5 4.4

California-Lexington Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,160 56,501 55,392 55,210 2,528 2,702 2,402 2,437 4.5 4.8 4.3 4.4

Cumberland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,451 44,884 43,966 44,016 2,459 2,743 2,443 2,534 5.5 6.1 5.6 5.8

Hagerstown-Martinsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,935 133,877 130,632 131,899 5,577 6,002 5,803 5,465 4.2 4.5 4.4 4.1

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,713,111 3,892,173 3,693,503 3,866,987 148,026 153,070 134,706 136,763 4.0 3.9 3.6 3.5

Barnstable Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,045 145,360 139,278 143,831 4,941 5,109 4,579 4,552 3.5 3.5 3.3 3.2

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,728,112 2,862,743 2,712,518 2,844,259 100,417 104,080 92,115 93,492 3.7 3.6 3.4 3.3

Leominster-Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,495 81,946 78,212 81,498 3,705 3,773 3,360 3,404 4.7 4.6 4.3 4.2

New Bedford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,792 89,071 85,137 88,278 4,875 4,980 4,479 4,538 5.7 5.6 5.3 5.1

Pittsfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,243 46,649 44,902 45,829 1,859 1,917 1,760 1,720 4.1 4.1 3.9 3.8

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370,282 382,905 367,668 380,991 18,654 18,966 16,770 16,782 5.0 5.0 4.6 4.4

Worcester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353,029 368,734 351,506 366,313 15,259 15,648 13,925 14,023 4.3 4.2 4.0 3.8

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,942,077 4,949,857 4,924,856 4,874,942 268,290 239,239 251,002 185,713 5.4 4.8 5.1 3.8

Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192,839 194,553 192,543 191,870 9,593 7,780 8,230 5,828 5.0 4.0 4.3 3.0

Battle Creek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,578 63,734 64,084 62,946 3,920 3,085 3,540 2,382 6.1 4.8 5.5 3.8

Bay City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,465 51,193 51,119 50,443 3,322 2,746 3,067 2,030 6.5 5.4 6.0 4.0

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,138,047 2,137,275 2,140,596 2,114,654 107,913 107,815 108,502 88,881 5.0 5.0 5.1 4.2

Flint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185,916 184,836 184,871 181,348 12,954 11,511 11,331 7,855 7.0 6.2 6.1 4.3

Grand Rapids-Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576,648 585,508 573,418 575,339 26,318 21,155 23,383 15,730 4.6 3.6 4.1 2.7

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,366 74,103 74,389 73,125 4,291 3,486 3,860 2,600 5.8 4.7 5.2 3.6

Kalamazoo-Portage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167,654 168,963 167,482 166,283 9,097 7,390 8,372 5,539 5.4 4.4 5.0 3.3

Lansing-East Lansing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245,371 247,661 243,869 243,259 13,713 11,037 12,071 7,654 5.6 4.5 4.9 3.1

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,057 40,752 40,795 40,252 2,200 1,811 2,037 1,378 5.4 4.4 5.0 3.4

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,741 77,121 76,139 76,370 4,920 3,800 4,332 3,463 6.4 4.9 5.7 4.5

Muskegon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,110 79,860 79,371 78,037 5,271 4,322 4,813 3,173 6.6 5.4 6.1 4.1

Niles-Benton Harbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,585 75,252 74,994 73,566 4,345 3,617 3,966 2,787 5.7 4.8 5.3 3.8

Saginaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,399 88,129 87,828 86,691 5,702 5,072 5,210 3,628 6.5 5.8 5.9 4.2

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,097,084 3,137,539 3,083,928 3,087,727 102,342 85,917 104,234 77,958 3.3 2.7 3.4 2.5

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

July August Number Percent of labor force

2017 2018 2017 2018p

July August July August

2017 2018 2017 2018p 2017 2018 2017 2018p

Minnesota - Continued

Duluth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144,554 145,090 143,810 143,160 6,282 5,168 6,437 4,672 4.3 3.6 4.5 3.3

Mankato-North Mankato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,051 61,312 59,474 60,928 1,714 1,407 1,662 1,286 2.9 2.3 2.8 2.1

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. . . . . . 2,023,440 2,046,192 2,017,087 2,022,959 64,806 53,908 65,761 49,718 3.2 2.6 3.3 2.5

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,324 124,476 123,571 121,593 3,439 2,835 3,395 2,626 2.8 2.3 2.7 2.2

St. Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,912 113,570 111,486 111,757 3,520 2,928 3,544 2,778 3.1 2.6 3.2 2.5

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,293,157 1,304,792 1,269,033 1,281,473 75,197 69,628 63,102 60,565 5.8 5.3 5.0 4.7

Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . 168,612 168,878 164,028 164,914 9,668 8,971 8,182 8,045 5.7 5.3 5.0 4.9

Hattiesburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,532 69,740 67,520 68,347 3,597 3,322 2,975 2,874 5.2 4.8 4.4 4.2

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274,541 278,624 269,038 274,011 13,833 12,804 11,571 11,151 5.0 4.6 4.3 4.1

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,087,860 3,111,773 3,049,843 3,041,588 128,665 117,084 129,606 105,619 4.2 3.8 4.2 3.5

Cape Girardeau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,067 48,055 47,466 47,919 1,999 1,780 1,921 1,553 4.2 3.7 4.0 3.2

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,947 97,528 95,956 95,750 2,955 2,791 2,905 2,523 3.0 2.9 3.0 2.6

Jefferson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,972 75,786 74,641 74,021 2,817 2,392 2,869 2,244 3.7 3.2 3.8 3.0

Joplin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,831 85,574 83,252 83,069 3,360 3,008 3,262 2,747 4.0 3.5 3.9 3.3

Kansas City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,157,899 1,170,697 1,139,926 1,142,985 49,923 45,892 50,113 40,577 4.3 3.9 4.4 3.6

St. Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,414 66,974 64,862 65,295 2,504 2,251 2,440 2,017 3.8 3.4 3.8 3.1

St. Louis2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,482,526 1,500,288 1,464,670 1,466,762 60,193 56,913 60,528 53,147 4.1 3.8 4.1 3.6

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231,749 234,097 226,934 227,344 7,969 7,285 8,276 6,896 3.4 3.1 3.6 3.0

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535,948 533,560 532,953 530,353 19,530 17,231 19,171 16,769 3.6 3.2 3.6 3.2

Billings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,845 87,523 88,000 86,935 3,051 2,845 3,005 2,601 3.5 3.3 3.4 3.0

Great Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,406 37,232 37,523 37,315 1,357 1,215 1,340 1,228 3.6 3.3 3.6 3.3

Missoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,568 61,435 61,856 61,512 2,072 1,763 2,029 1,696 3.4 2.9 3.3 2.8

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,022,611 1,031,535 1,010,044 1,018,192 32,315 31,639 29,345 27,829 3.2 3.1 2.9 2.7

Grand Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,115 44,293 43,384 43,804 1,366 1,358 1,248 1,224 3.1 3.1 2.9 2.8

Lincoln. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177,969 181,393 178,727 182,955 5,108 5,131 4,815 4,705 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.6

Omaha-Council Bluffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485,204 493,989 480,003 491,836 15,936 15,147 14,580 13,518 3.3 3.1 3.0 2.7

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,470,436 1,511,980 1,467,506 1,511,103 75,576 67,875 72,887 70,162 5.1 4.5 5.0 4.6

Carson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,907 26,594 25,761 26,400 1,222 1,140 1,160 1,143 4.7 4.3 4.5 4.3

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise. . . . . . . . 1,077,241 1,109,201 1,075,167 1,109,659 58,349 52,555 56,448 54,219 5.4 4.7 5.3 4.9

Reno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242,593 249,806 242,845 250,798 10,046 8,884 9,621 9,310 4.1 3.6 4.0 3.7

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759,632 775,787 754,645 771,044 19,741 20,692 19,652 20,311 2.6 2.7 2.6 2.6

Dover-Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,362 87,083 83,928 86,694 2,098 2,191 1,983 2,101 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.4

Manchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,672 119,503 116,420 118,824 3,072 3,055 3,077 3,023 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5

Portsmouth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,678 80,429 78,094 79,974 1,813 1,924 1,782 1,830 2.3 2.4 2.3 2.3

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,586,978 4,579,780 4,545,577 4,527,351 234,116 217,846 226,022 199,547 5.1 4.8 5.0 4.4

Atlantic City-Hammonton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,001 127,911 123,098 127,126 9,030 7,536 8,677 6,887 7.3 5.9 7.0 5.4

Ocean City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,642 57,074 57,049 55,497 3,282 2,946 3,048 2,573 5.6 5.2 5.3 4.6

Trenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,975 204,684 199,976 202,690 9,483 9,018 9,147 8,230 4.7 4.4 4.6 4.1

Vineland-Bridgeton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,915 64,725 65,171 64,754 4,844 4,543 4,862 4,266 7.5 7.0 7.5 6.6

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932,069 943,529 927,597 935,881 62,198 47,534 58,085 44,958 6.7 5.0 6.3 4.8

Albuquerque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425,798 434,032 423,798 430,153 26,690 20,834 25,299 20,011 6.3 4.8 6.0 4.7

Farmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,684 52,585 51,682 52,178 3,950 2,957 3,730 2,789 7.5 5.6 7.2 5.3

Las Cruces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,488 91,942 93,567 92,540 6,911 5,361 6,293 4,892 7.5 5.8 6.7 5.3

Santa Fe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,758 75,808 73,653 74,791 4,127 3,137 3,876 3,036 5.6 4.1 5.3 4.1

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,858,475 9,831,240 9,767,149 9,757,182 485,742 416,407 481,791 401,687 4.9 4.2 4.9 4.1

Albany-Schenectady-Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457,495 453,732 453,601 449,424 20,180 17,261 19,689 16,614 4.4 3.8 4.3 3.7

Binghamton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,747 107,682 107,882 106,916 5,962 5,139 5,677 4,880 5.5 4.8 5.3 4.6

Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls. . . . . 558,889 556,268 555,548 556,296 30,239 25,149 29,811 24,106 5.4 4.5 5.4 4.3

Elmira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,152 35,506 36,148 35,183 1,997 1,664 1,946 1,599 5.5 4.7 5.4 4.5

Glens Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,911 63,983 63,109 63,444 2,733 2,248 2,707 2,207 4.3 3.5 4.3 3.5

Ithaca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,361 50,225 48,540 49,891 2,447 2,007 2,249 1,840 5.0 4.0 4.6 3.7

Kingston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,398 90,784 89,236 90,018 4,220 3,603 4,197 3,547 4.7 4.0 4.7 3.9

New York-Newark-Jersey City. . . . . . . . . . 10,273,872 10,242,390 10,174,407 10,147,597 503,462 446,494 496,741 423,914 4.9 4.4 4.9 4.2

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528,033 528,529 523,109 524,211 26,674 22,487 26,242 21,851 5.1 4.3 5.0 4.2

Syracuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311,083 310,650 308,152 308,003 15,845 13,370 15,420 12,540 5.1 4.3 5.0 4.1

Utica-Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133,356 132,063 131,875 131,390 6,644 5,771 6,569 5,428 5.0 4.4 5.0 4.1

Watertown-Fort Drum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,338 46,686 46,875 46,301 2,663 2,222 2,633 2,128 5.6 4.8 5.6 4.6

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,988,088 5,052,642 4,938,611 4,960,170 237,962 206,181 238,077 194,685 4.8 4.1 4.8 3.9

Asheville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231,187 235,009 228,378 229,116 8,948 7,676 8,990 7,317 3.9 3.3 3.9 3.2

Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,300 80,809 79,405 79,528 3,749 3,247 3,739 3,021 4.7 4.0 4.7 3.8

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,324,276 1,348,400 1,316,137 1,331,444 59,277 51,161 60,157 48,654 4.5 3.8 4.6 3.7

Durham-Chapel Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299,771 305,021 295,875 300,110 12,887 11,093 12,917 10,479 4.3 3.6 4.4 3.5

Fayetteville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146,245 148,089 145,942 145,390 8,956 8,103 8,928 7,650 6.1 5.5 6.1 5.3

Goldsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,675 53,308 52,720 52,050 2,912 2,379 2,846 2,316 5.4 4.5 5.4 4.4

Greensboro-High Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369,528 372,689 367,298 367,066 19,017 16,262 18,951 15,302 5.1 4.4 5.2 4.2

Greenville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,322 90,537 88,722 88,949 4,878 4,273 4,828 3,934 5.5 4.7 5.4 4.4

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. . . . . . . . . . . . . 174,063 175,795 172,434 173,529 7,832 6,554 7,777 6,263 4.5 3.7 4.5 3.6

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,777 62,800 64,344 63,962 3,479 2,874 3,432 2,727 5.5 4.6 5.3 4.3

New Bern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,515 52,908 51,737 51,882 2,584 2,246 2,591 2,183 4.9 4.2 5.0 4.2

Raleigh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709,445 729,106 701,431 714,144 29,856 25,755 30,050 24,504 4.2 3.5 4.3 3.4

Rocky Mount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,639 64,580 64,297 62,920 4,578 3,974 4,545 3,652 7.0 6.2 7.1 5.8

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

July August Number Percent of labor force

2017 2018 2017 2018p

July August July August

2017 2018 2017 2018p 2017 2018 2017 2018p

North Carolina - Continued

Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148,401 149,699 147,496 146,887 6,607 5,754 6,613 5,418 4.5 3.8 4.5 3.7

Winston-Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326,041 329,096 322,693 322,313 15,043 13,007 14,994 12,403 4.6 4.0 4.6 3.8

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423,222 411,863 421,299 407,132 9,731 9,902 9,870 9,211 2.3 2.4 2.3 2.3

Bismarck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,322 69,794 70,328 68,430 1,592 1,669 1,649 1,601 2.2 2.4 2.3 2.3

Fargo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,637 138,252 139,105 137,081 2,930 3,021 2,952 2,845 2.1 2.2 2.1 2.1

Grand Forks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,579 55,210 55,353 54,026 1,625 1,576 1,611 1,371 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.5

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,864,866 5,846,896 5,830,467 5,752,284 310,257 284,136 297,563 256,935 5.3 4.9 5.1 4.5

Akron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364,963 365,963 361,546 359,859 18,671 17,154 18,478 15,743 5.1 4.7 5.1 4.4

Canton-Massillon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202,375 202,306 201,475 197,928 10,594 9,889 10,467 9,010 5.2 4.9 5.2 4.6

Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,129,396 1,137,541 1,120,907 1,114,538 51,717 48,685 50,363 43,521 4.6 4.3 4.5 3.9

Cleveland-Elyria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,056,494 1,059,929 1,038,865 1,041,520 63,768 58,285 61,189 54,348 6.0 5.5 5.9 5.2

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,095,674 1,095,029 1,091,197 1,075,780 46,577 44,436 46,093 40,839 4.3 4.1 4.2 3.8

Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395,611 390,145 392,421 387,104 19,377 18,449 19,103 16,414 4.9 4.7 4.9 4.2

Lima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,751 48,684 49,183 47,654 2,846 2,639 2,475 2,039 5.7 5.4 5.0 4.3

Mansfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,010 54,022 53,450 52,905 3,200 2,812 2,866 2,351 5.9 5.2 5.4 4.4

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,995 63,969 64,284 63,275 3,568 3,361 3,148 2,799 5.6 5.3 4.9 4.4

Toledo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306,820 304,074 304,613 297,814 19,091 16,021 18,368 14,644 6.2 5.3 6.0 4.9

Weirton-Steubenville1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,678 51,217 51,177 50,218 3,440 3,310 3,342 2,919 6.7 6.5 6.5 5.8

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman. . . . . . . . 249,677 242,800 245,903 238,290 19,247 14,785 15,861 13,511 7.7 6.1 6.5 5.7

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,839,879 1,873,194 1,830,593 1,855,540 79,646 68,218 78,942 64,315 4.3 3.6 4.3 3.5

Enid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,159 28,448 27,718 27,897 1,084 919 1,077 877 3.8 3.2 3.9 3.1

Lawton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,265 52,856 51,796 52,166 2,302 2,259 2,376 2,169 4.4 4.3 4.6 4.2

Oklahoma City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677,371 696,345 670,542 685,799 26,572 23,160 26,222 22,034 3.9 3.3 3.9 3.2

Tulsa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483,155 494,123 476,200 486,911 21,560 17,917 21,492 17,012 4.5 3.6 4.5 3.5

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,134,577 2,137,211 2,134,652 2,122,899 95,339 85,552 95,441 83,851 4.5 4.0 4.5 3.9

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,859 58,438 58,283 58,292 3,026 2,734 3,038 2,650 5.2 4.7 5.2 4.5

Bend-Redmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,357 97,075 96,343 96,760 3,982 3,584 3,994 3,462 4.2 3.7 4.1 3.6

Corvallis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,625 46,114 46,735 45,924 1,918 1,636 1,830 1,599 4.1 3.5 3.9 3.5

Eugene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181,087 182,694 181,109 181,778 9,070 8,087 9,010 7,964 5.0 4.4 5.0 4.4

Grants Pass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,500 35,803 35,952 35,843 2,037 1,933 2,070 1,911 5.7 5.4 5.8 5.3

Medford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,973 105,075 105,321 105,286 5,478 5,010 5,528 4,923 5.3 4.8 5.2 4.7

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. . . . . . . . . . 1,320,321 1,324,795 1,321,872 1,318,243 55,681 50,296 56,185 49,651 4.2 3.8 4.3 3.8

Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206,616 204,272 206,908 204,069 9,808 8,757 9,788 8,602 4.7 4.3 4.7 4.2

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,514,475 6,506,856 6,449,859 6,435,111 344,024 293,400 341,711 286,076 5.3 4.5 5.3 4.4

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . 439,205 442,538 435,103 436,487 23,309 20,904 23,436 20,523 5.3 4.7 5.4 4.7

Altoona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,649 61,132 61,119 60,899 3,222 2,785 3,139 2,625 5.2 4.6 5.1 4.3

Bloomsburg-Berwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,121 42,645 42,698 42,323 2,277 2,051 2,203 1,881 5.3 4.8 5.2 4.4

Chambersburg-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . 77,893 78,132 77,090 77,999 3,746 3,147 3,672 2,851 4.8 4.0 4.8 3.7

East Stroudsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,756 83,407 82,876 82,423 5,035 4,547 5,119 4,491 6.0 5.5 6.2 5.4

Erie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,596 130,799 130,067 129,053 7,996 6,290 7,754 5,771 6.1 4.8 6.0 4.5

Gettysburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,396 56,955 55,727 56,331 2,317 1,986 2,274 1,866 4.1 3.5 4.1 3.3

Harrisburg-Carlisle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303,471 303,872 300,520 300,228 13,892 11,711 13,779 11,385 4.6 3.9 4.6 3.8

Johnstown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,943 59,963 59,296 59,581 4,034 3,452 4,003 3,252 6.7 5.8 6.8 5.5

Lancaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287,544 287,964 284,252 284,385 12,292 10,875 12,178 10,005 4.3 3.8 4.3 3.5

Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,123 71,741 71,344 71,002 3,247 2,886 3,283 2,856 4.5 4.0 4.6 4.0

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. . . . . . . 3,119,420 3,139,765 3,093,827 3,102,847 163,876 145,021 162,377 141,300 5.3 4.6 5.2 4.6

Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,223,747 1,216,852 1,210,564 1,197,801 65,285 53,662 64,872 52,473 5.3 4.4 5.4 4.4

Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214,975 215,757 212,771 213,429 10,555 9,375 10,623 9,238 4.9 4.3 5.0 4.3

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton. . . . . . . 280,327 283,996 278,044 281,107 16,623 14,800 16,650 14,772 5.9 5.2 6.0 5.3

State College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,764 76,823 77,858 77,314 3,293 2,862 3,055 2,543 4.2 3.7 3.9 3.3

Williamsport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,018 56,202 57,647 55,982 3,301 2,679 3,206 2,643 5.7 4.8 5.6 4.7

York-Hanover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237,633 237,312 235,676 236,633 11,927 10,002 11,617 9,572 5.0 4.2 4.9 4.0

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561,995 571,665 560,123 565,648 26,292 23,447 25,123 21,650 4.7 4.1 4.5 3.8

Providence-Warwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690,690 707,170 688,504 700,385 32,242 29,811 30,537 27,415 4.7 4.2 4.4 3.9

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,342,714 2,336,359 2,330,276 2,312,891 104,779 82,240 111,007 83,578 4.5 3.5 4.8 3.6

Charleston-North Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . 384,089 383,282 380,677 378,849 14,453 11,515 15,325 11,602 3.8 3.0 4.0 3.1

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407,429 403,743 402,625 399,477 17,017 13,721 19,334 13,938 4.2 3.4 4.8 3.5

Florence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,593 95,360 95,528 94,049 4,801 3,838 5,121 3,917 5.0 4.0 5.4 4.2

Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin. . . . . . . . . . . 426,275 423,566 425,345 420,637 18,024 13,818 18,048 13,819 4.2 3.3 4.2 3.3

Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort. . . . 89,694 90,262 88,699 88,353 3,611 2,952 3,833 2,938 4.0 3.3 4.3 3.3

Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206,130 209,678 202,022 203,827 9,639 8,352 10,068 8,283 4.7 4.0 5.0 4.1

Spartanburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159,225 158,350 158,915 156,855 7,978 5,466 7,370 5,480 5.0 3.5 4.6 3.5

Sumter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,411 44,139 44,477 43,722 2,439 1,884 2,678 1,860 5.5 4.3 6.0 4.3

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463,056 466,365 459,844 461,548 14,479 12,357 15,202 12,855 3.1 2.6 3.3 2.8

Rapid City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,437 77,800 77,253 77,905 2,331 1,961 2,499 2,155 3.0 2.5 3.2 2.8

Sioux Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,885 152,938 150,122 152,412 3,803 3,208 4,128 3,540 2.5 2.1 2.7 2.3

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,230,978 3,296,841 3,201,982 3,240,320 125,904 132,827 118,047 123,911 3.9 4.0 3.7 3.8

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269,973 279,671 266,230 274,234 11,309 11,021 10,596 10,190 4.2 3.9 4.0 3.7

Clarksville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,180 114,314 111,891 112,732 5,677 5,832 5,242 5,203 5.1 5.1 4.7 4.6

Cleveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,594 58,681 57,391 58,071 2,360 2,484 2,189 2,333 4.1 4.2 3.8 4.0

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,940 66,325 64,036 64,975 2,610 2,825 2,503 2,684 4.0 4.3 3.9 4.1

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

July August Number Percent of labor force

2017 2018 2017 2018p

July August July August

2017 2018 2017 2018p 2017 2018 2017 2018p

Tennessee - Continued

Johnson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,255 91,037 89,647 89,586 3,915 4,026 3,754 3,779 4.3 4.4 4.2 4.2

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138,422 140,927 137,492 138,668 6,012 5,689 5,600 5,307 4.3 4.0 4.1 3.8

Knoxville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423,615 427,746 418,195 419,803 15,898 16,264 14,720 15,177 3.8 3.8 3.5 3.6

Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638,246 654,975 627,921 641,249 29,023 30,518 26,558 28,138 4.5 4.7 4.2 4.4

Morristown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,284 52,548 50,852 51,670 2,154 2,216 2,058 2,098 4.2 4.2 4.0 4.1

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--

Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,026,575 1,048,735 1,014,341 1,027,023 31,462 33,176 29,748 31,609 3.1 3.2 2.9 3.1

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,571,881 13,840,761 13,522,840 13,751,850 604,241 556,604 601,021 539,409 4.5 4.0 4.4 3.9

Abilene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,104 76,491 75,175 75,984 3,024 2,672 2,987 2,630 4.0 3.5 4.0 3.5

Amarillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,272 133,178 129,744 132,174 4,264 3,899 4,047 3,747 3.3 2.9 3.1 2.8

Austin-Round Rock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,158,322 1,186,106 1,151,425 1,179,196 38,072 36,603 37,898 35,789 3.3 3.1 3.3 3.0

Beaumont-Port Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174,177 172,289 172,271 171,174 12,020 10,892 12,150 10,737 6.9 6.3 7.1 6.3

Brownsville-Harlingen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167,165 167,833 166,593 165,672 12,093 10,968 12,057 10,207 7.2 6.5 7.2 6.2

College Station-Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,969 129,289 123,463 127,175 4,567 4,285 4,474 4,167 3.7 3.3 3.6 3.3

Corpus Christi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208,422 206,473 206,972 205,195 11,778 10,695 11,994 10,255 5.7 5.2 5.8 5.0

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . 3,815,317 3,919,174 3,805,982 3,894,841 147,106 142,437 146,513 138,606 3.9 3.6 3.8 3.6

El Paso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352,202 358,218 351,998 356,339 17,020 15,842 16,953 15,583 4.8 4.4 4.8 4.4

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land. . . 3,338,158 3,418,897 3,321,027 3,393,699 168,655 150,368 170,033 146,566 5.1 4.4 5.1 4.3

Killeen-Temple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175,467 178,150 175,049 177,866 7,647 7,452 7,523 7,363 4.4 4.2 4.3 4.1

Laredo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,013 115,212 114,649 114,393 4,979 4,607 4,896 4,318 4.3 4.0 4.3 3.8

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,531 96,730 97,090 95,910 5,068 4,139 4,954 4,045 5.2 4.3 5.1 4.2

Lubbock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161,384 165,067 161,452 164,578 5,934 5,678 5,756 5,202 3.7 3.4 3.6 3.2

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . 336,020 340,690 337,787 339,305 26,309 23,720 26,375 22,527 7.8 7.0 7.8 6.6

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,349 100,716 93,340 100,244 2,844 2,265 2,762 2,251 3.0 2.2 3.0 2.2

Odessa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,897 80,626 78,693 80,026 3,182 2,356 3,102 2,324 4.0 2.9 3.9 2.9

San Angelo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,801 55,135 54,649 55,076 2,124 1,858 2,023 1,811 3.9 3.4 3.7 3.3

San Antonio-New Braunfels. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,173,863 1,183,052 1,167,801 1,174,095 43,948 41,397 42,998 40,524 3.7 3.5 3.7 3.5

Sherman-Denison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,524 63,988 62,196 63,489 2,265 2,114 2,251 2,061 3.6 3.3 3.6 3.2

Texarkana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,683 65,270 64,097 64,296 3,172 3,487 3,077 3,206 4.9 5.3 4.8 5.0

Tyler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,068 109,223 105,567 108,667 4,367 4,005 4,286 3,974 4.1 3.7 4.1 3.7

Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,176 45,131 45,868 44,769 2,262 1,829 2,232 1,788 4.9 4.1 4.9 4.0

Waco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,386 126,483 125,146 125,543 5,603 4,946 5,363 4,589 4.5 3.9 4.3 3.7

Wichita Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,083 65,509 64,507 64,811 2,513 2,447 2,431 2,230 3.9 3.7 3.8 3.4

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,570,778 1,601,286 1,569,268 1,586,516 52,995 51,881 53,051 55,299 3.4 3.2 3.4 3.5

Logan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,670 68,497 67,579 67,894 2,008 2,022 1,977 2,055 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.0

Ogden-Clearfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330,799 334,502 329,191 330,305 11,312 10,959 11,324 11,827 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.6

Provo-Orem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296,222 305,124 297,996 304,566 9,441 9,408 9,328 9,802 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.2

St. George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,083 73,866 71,823 73,730 2,556 2,554 2,611 2,939 3.6 3.5 3.6 4.0

Salt Lake City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660,288 673,583 658,367 666,055 21,414 21,116 21,695 22,660 3.2 3.1 3.3 3.4

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350,175 352,270 348,728 348,360 10,730 10,275 10,244 9,760 3.1 2.9 2.9 2.8

Burlington-South Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . 127,012 127,593 126,039 125,655 3,361 3,258 3,224 3,114 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,367,600 4,417,724 4,318,478 4,340,469 169,970 129,930 170,341 133,149 3.9 2.9 3.9 3.1

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford. . . . . 89,070 89,080 90,196 90,291 3,958 2,908 4,022 2,943 4.4 3.3 4.5 3.3

Charlottesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118,253 122,573 116,682 120,206 4,323 3,347 4,246 3,461 3.7 2.7 3.6 2.9

Harrisonburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,108 65,904 63,620 63,890 2,667 1,988 2,599 2,001 4.1 3.0 4.1 3.1

Lynchburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,803 125,348 123,052 124,301 5,804 4,437 5,804 4,386 4.7 3.5 4.7 3.5

Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686,030 697,370 679,463 682,976 27,553 21,744 28,062 22,181 4.0 3.1 4.1 3.2

Roanoke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158,036 159,213 157,051 156,971 6,448 4,678 6,652 4,827 4.1 2.9 4.2 3.1

Staunton-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,409 60,685 58,525 59,294 2,229 1,666 2,176 1,690 3.8 2.7 3.7 2.9

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News. . . 867,282 874,550 858,943 860,384 37,344 28,409 37,672 29,082 4.3 3.2 4.4 3.4

Winchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,061 74,115 71,234 72,918 2,531 2,045 2,495 2,121 3.5 2.8 3.5 2.9

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,756,579 3,798,238 3,738,990 3,771,608 174,245 159,775 178,199 155,329 4.6 4.2 4.8 4.1

Bellingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,677 111,881 109,957 110,696 5,521 4,867 5,436 4,885 5.0 4.4 4.9 4.4

Bremerton-Silverdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,030 120,533 120,464 120,017 5,828 5,144 5,829 5,181 4.8 4.3 4.8 4.3

Kennewick-Richland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145,171 143,236 140,388 140,166 6,958 6,603 7,091 6,513 4.8 4.6 5.1 4.6

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,681 45,624 45,749 45,999 2,648 2,500 2,686 2,497 5.8 5.5 5.9 5.4

Mount Vernon-Anacortes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,135 60,144 60,036 59,761 3,109 2,858 3,114 2,824 5.2 4.8 5.2 4.7

Olympia-Tumwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133,048 134,557 133,301 134,236 6,579 5,945 6,575 5,950 4.9 4.4 4.9 4.4

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,068,263 2,114,287 2,073,452 2,106,200 89,038 81,044 90,816 75,754 4.3 3.8 4.4 3.6

Spokane-Spokane Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260,495 256,745 260,370 257,234 13,713 12,640 13,753 12,802 5.3 4.9 5.3 5.0

Walla Walla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,696 31,727 31,464 31,041 1,439 1,340 1,416 1,291 4.5 4.2 4.5 4.2

Wenatchee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,992 76,830 70,442 70,152 2,734 2,482 3,017 2,781 3.5 3.2 4.3 4.0

Yakima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,651 137,615 131,298 133,205 6,689 6,627 8,365 7,296 4.9 4.8 6.4 5.5

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785,049 788,629 781,215 777,064 39,644 42,725 41,517 37,915 5.0 5.4 5.3 4.9

Beckley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,344 46,004 46,135 45,326 2,481 2,634 2,622 2,320 5.4 5.7 5.7 5.1

Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,434 95,912 95,827 94,393 4,867 5,141 5,193 4,643 5.0 5.4 5.4 4.9

Huntington-Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148,023 147,047 147,600 145,181 8,469 8,605 8,474 7,477 5.7 5.9 5.7 5.2

Morgantown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,483 68,089 65,948 67,446 2,688 3,178 2,878 2,854 4.0 4.7 4.4 4.2

Parkersburg-Vienna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,879 38,786 38,626 38,145 2,139 2,183 2,203 1,941 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.1

Wheeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,600 64,979 64,973 63,714 3,514 3,545 3,598 3,157 5.4 5.5 5.5 5.0

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,201,145 3,216,751 3,176,657 3,175,053 108,410 101,864 106,386 98,012 3.4 3.2 3.3 3.1

Appleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,029 136,058 133,898 134,707 4,130 3,958 3,927 3,786 3.1 2.9 2.9 2.8

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

July August Number Percent of labor force

2017 2018 2017 2018p

July August July August

2017 2018 2017 2018p 2017 2018 2017 2018p

Wisconsin - Continued

Eau Claire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,044 94,972 92,954 93,520 2,961 2,711 2,873 2,507 3.1 2.9 3.1 2.7

Fond du Lac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,395 59,237 57,640 58,182 1,801 1,762 1,749 1,662 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9

Green Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178,287 179,639 177,395 177,295 5,546 5,311 5,195 5,087 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.9

Janesville-Beloit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,900 87,640 86,743 86,356 3,154 2,933 3,174 2,874 3.6 3.3 3.7 3.3

La Crosse-Onalaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,215 79,554 77,544 78,690 2,462 2,195 2,239 2,008 3.1 2.8 2.9 2.6

Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394,779 397,522 391,151 392,067 10,140 9,582 9,508 9,046 2.6 2.4 2.4 2.3

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis. . . . . . . 846,244 846,045 844,752 841,100 32,767 30,819 32,988 30,166 3.9 3.6 3.9 3.6

Oshkosh-Neenah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,040 95,300 94,774 94,356 3,101 2,860 3,004 2,812 3.2 3.0 3.2 3.0

Racine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,391 101,724 102,007 100,801 4,394 4,114 4,719 4,012 4.3 4.0 4.6 4.0

Sheboygan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,941 65,933 64,439 64,826 1,874 1,716 1,757 1,641 2.9 2.6 2.7 2.5

Wausau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,147 76,880 74,547 76,132 2,333 2,149 2,320 2,072 3.1 2.8 3.1 2.7

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297,426 288,839 295,499 286,613 11,094 10,937 10,574 10,455 3.7 3.8 3.6 3.6

Casper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,364 38,502 39,289 38,225 1,874 1,681 1,785 1,630 4.8 4.4 4.5 4.3

Cheyenne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,512 47,286 47,739 46,927 1,647 1,732 1,616 1,741 3.4 3.7 3.4 3.7

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,091,104 1,105,128 1,092,130 1,087,497 113,848 105,410 127,946 99,385 10.4 9.5 11.7 9.1

Aguadilla-Isabela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,781 88,838 89,269 86,488 12,134 10,989 13,359 10,146 13.7 12.4 15.0 11.7

Arecibo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,043 52,312 52,366 51,286 5,952 5,762 6,719 5,511 11.4 11.0 12.8 10.7

Guayama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,462 20,728 21,684 20,415 3,753 2,902 4,210 2,746 17.5 14.0 19.4 13.5

Mayaguez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,685 27,261 27,590 26,823 3,590 3,198 4,026 3,027 13.0 11.7 14.6 11.3

Ponce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,304 93,226 93,785 91,277 12,401 11,190 14,313 10,819 13.3 12.0 15.3 11.9

San German. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,515 34,855 35,665 33,863 5,486 4,740 6,080 4,306 15.4 13.6 17.0 12.7

San Juan-Carolina-Caguas. . . . . . . . . . . . 727,605 746,277 726,376 736,815 63,808 60,878 71,306 57,125 8.8 8.2 9.8 7.8

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

July August Number Percent of labor force

2017 2018 2017 2018p

July August July August

2017 2018 2017 2018p 2017 2018 2017 2018p

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,413,562 19,469,829 19,376,487 19,368,137 995,611 857,023 959,037 825,595 5.1 4.4 4.9 4.3

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . 6,777,366 6,792,028 6,757,630 6,742,613 337,516 314,534 324,482 309,817 5.0 4.6 4.8 4.6

Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine. . . . . . . . . 1,624,380 1,612,216 1,619,737 1,604,162 64,088 51,372 61,979 49,526 3.9 3.2 3.8 3.1

Los Angeles-Long

Beach-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,152,986 5,179,812 5,137,893 5,138,451 273,428 263,162 262,503 260,291 5.3 5.1 5.1 5.1

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . 2,592,172 2,594,533 2,583,154 2,581,445 95,323 74,070 92,821 71,540 3.7 2.9 3.6 2.8

Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley. . . . . . . . 1,420,577 1,420,529 1,415,528 1,413,575 58,510 45,761 56,855 44,091 4.1 3.2 4.0 3.1

San Francisco-Redwood City-South

San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,028,969 1,031,274 1,025,796 1,025,324 32,240 24,723 31,529 23,966 3.1 2.4 3.1 2.3

San Rafael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,626 142,730 141,830 142,546 4,573 3,586 4,437 3,483 3.2 2.5 3.1 2.4

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407,291 414,707 400,601 401,407 26,933 24,791 25,560 24,622 6.6 6.0 6.4 6.1

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . 3,438,343 3,471,575 3,392,976 3,405,508 134,363 122,021 130,626 118,423 3.9 3.5 3.8 3.5

Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville3.. . 697,516 706,318 691,402 697,320 24,927 25,592 23,053 22,335 3.6 3.6 3.3 3.2

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2.. . 2,740,827 2,765,257 2,701,574 2,708,188 109,436 96,429 107,573 96,088 4.0 3.5 4.0 3.5

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,164,624 10,319,333 10,105,593 10,191,327 444,483 409,001 439,388 383,417 4.4 4.0 4.3 3.8

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,161,908 3,172,468 3,129,204 3,116,923 142,866 128,584 142,970 120,774 4.5 4.1 4.6 3.9

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano

Beach-Deerfield Beach. . . . . . . . . 1,033,963 1,045,249 1,028,811 1,033,196 42,019 38,976 41,156 36,522 4.1 3.7 4.0 3.5

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall. . . . . . . 1,402,620 1,396,346 1,377,698 1,361,811 68,949 60,045 69,890 55,867 4.9 4.3 5.1 4.1

West Palm Beach-Boca

Raton-Delray Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . 725,325 730,873 722,695 721,916 31,898 29,563 31,924 28,385 4.4 4.0 4.4 3.9

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,567,081 6,561,454 6,504,014 6,460,016 335,872 280,091 344,193 269,055 5.1 4.3 5.3 4.2

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin2. . . . . . . . . . . 4,985,235 4,957,787 4,933,346 4,883,652 255,098 204,010 265,755 193,803 5.1 4.1 5.4 4.0

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington

Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,844,615 3,795,206 3,806,199 3,742,782 204,102 154,295 213,637 143,531 5.3 4.1 5.6 3.8

Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325,366 333,598 322,064 326,345 14,817 14,716 14,960 14,506 4.6 4.4 4.6 4.4

Gary3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342,927 349,907 338,578 345,592 16,358 15,966 17,425 16,530 4.8 4.6 5.1 4.8

Lake County-Kenosha County2. . . . 472,327 479,076 466,505 468,933 19,821 19,033 19,733 19,236 4.2 4.0 4.2 4.1

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,713,111 3,892,173 3,693,503 3,866,987 148,026 153,070 134,706 136,763 4.0 3.9 3.6 3.5

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua2. . . . . . . . . 2,728,112 2,862,743 2,712,518 2,844,259 100,417 104,080 92,115 93,492 3.7 3.6 3.4 3.3

Boston-Cambridge-Newton. . . . . . . . 1,622,697 1,709,579 1,613,571 1,699,022 57,598 59,506 52,277 52,759 3.5 3.5 3.2 3.1

Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton. . . . . . 107,711 112,557 107,022 112,284 5,173 5,264 4,657 4,748 4.8 4.7 4.4 4.2

Framingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159,099 165,107 158,150 163,932 5,484 5,563 5,012 5,012 3.4 3.4 3.2 3.1

Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury

Town2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,630 122,122 115,884 120,708 3,965 4,252 3,773 3,895 3.4 3.5 3.3 3.2

Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem2.. . 98,205 102,516 97,640 101,666 4,910 5,188 4,690 4,802 5.0 5.1 4.8 4.7

Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford2. . . . . . . 192,157 202,442 191,024 200,809 7,694 8,004 7,007 7,105 4.0 4.0 3.7 3.5

Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead. . . . . . . . . 85,084 89,660 84,826 89,020 3,313 3,437 3,047 3,130 3.9 3.8 3.6 3.5

Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,245 174,830 168,968 173,835 5,141 5,426 5,123 5,309 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1

Peabody-Salem-Beverly. . . . . . . . . . . 92,001 95,630 91,418 94,871 3,392 3,589 3,099 3,217 3.7 3.8 3.4 3.4

Taunton-Middleborough-Norton. . . . 84,283 88,300 84,015 88,112 3,747 3,851 3,430 3,515 4.4 4.4 4.1 4.0

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,942,077 4,949,857 4,924,856 4,874,942 268,290 239,239 251,002 185,713 5.4 4.8 5.1 3.8

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,138,047 2,137,275 2,140,596 2,114,654 107,913 107,815 108,502 88,881 5.0 5.0 5.1 4.2

Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . 797,808 802,453 801,707 793,175 50,652 51,069 50,286 42,250 6.3 6.4 6.3 5.3

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills. . . . . . 1,340,239 1,334,820 1,338,888 1,321,479 57,262 56,745 58,216 46,631 4.3 4.3 4.3 3.5

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,858,475 9,831,240 9,767,149 9,757,182 485,742 416,407 481,791 401,687 4.9 4.2 4.9 4.1

New York-Newark-Jersey City2. . . . . . 10,273,872 10,242,390 10,174,407 10,147,597 503,462 446,494 496,741 423,914 4.9 4.4 4.9 4.2

Dutchess County-Putnam County.. . 200,654 199,635 197,740 197,612 8,868 7,543 8,670 7,262 4.4 3.8 4.4 3.7

Nassau County-Suffolk County. . . . . 1,533,274 1,527,558 1,512,090 1,514,574 69,832 59,140 69,156 57,977 4.6 3.9 4.6 3.8

Newark3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,264,257 1,252,007 1,249,661 1,237,883 64,680 61,001 62,465 55,818 5.1 4.9 5.0 4.5

New York-Jersey City-White

Plains2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,275,687 7,263,190 7,214,916 7,197,528 360,082 318,810 356,450 302,857 4.9 4.4 4.9 4.2

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,514,475 6,506,856 6,449,859 6,435,111 344,024 293,400 341,711 286,076 5.3 4.5 5.3 4.4

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington2. . . . 3,119,420 3,139,765 3,093,827 3,102,847 163,876 145,021 162,377 141,300 5.3 4.6 5.2 4.6

Camden3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644,521 650,113 641,015 642,097 33,992 31,968 32,957 29,700 5.3 4.9 5.1 4.6

Montgomery County-Bucks

County-Chester County. . . . . . . . . 1,091,275 1,090,606 1,079,544 1,078,467 47,091 40,307 46,687 39,419 4.3 3.7 4.3 3.7

Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,004,041 1,010,931 996,032 998,485 63,474 55,268 63,736 54,876 6.3 5.5 6.4 5.5

Wilmington3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379,583 388,115 377,236 383,798 19,319 17,478 18,997 17,305 5.1 4.5 5.0 4.5

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,571,881 13,840,761 13,522,840 13,751,850 604,241 556,604 601,021 539,409 4.5 4.0 4.4 3.9

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . 3,815,317 3,919,174 3,805,982 3,894,841 147,106 142,437 146,513 138,606 3.9 3.6 3.8 3.6

Dallas-Plano-Irving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,575,074 2,651,282 2,568,487 2,636,999 98,387 96,109 98,229 93,609 3.8 3.6 3.8 3.5

Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,240,243 1,267,892 1,237,495 1,257,842 48,719 46,328 48,284 44,997 3.9 3.7 3.9 3.6

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,756,579 3,798,238 3,738,990 3,771,608 174,245 159,775 178,199 155,329 4.6 4.2 4.8 4.1

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,068,263 2,114,287 2,073,452 2,106,200 89,038 81,044 90,816 75,754 4.3 3.8 4.4 3.6

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett. . . . . . . . . . . 1,654,880 1,694,069 1,658,270 1,687,111 67,175 61,074 68,610 55,366 4.1 3.6 4.1 3.3

Tacoma-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413,383 420,218 415,182 419,089 21,863 19,970 22,206 20,388 5.3 4.8 5.3 4.9

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 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

July August Change from

August 2017 to August 2018p

2017 2018 2017 2018p Number Percent

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,007.6 2,030.4 2,016.7 2,040.0 23.3 1.2

Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.7 47.3 47.2 47.6 0.4 0.8

Auburn-Opelika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.9 63.0 64.2 64.5 0.3 0.5

Birmingham-Hoover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529.9 538.6 530.7 538.3 7.6 1.4

Daphne-Fairhope-Foley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.4 81.1 77.4 79.8 2.4 3.1

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.2 54.9 54.3 55.2 0.9 1.7

Dothan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.2 58.4 58.3 58.4 0.1 0.2

Florence-Muscle Shoals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.0 56.3 56.5 56.2 -0.3 -0.5

Gadsden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.6 38.2 37.6 37.9 0.3 0.8

Huntsville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231.0 238.4 232.2 241.6 9.4 4.0

Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183.0 184.3 183.8 185.1 1.3 0.7

Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176.4 178.7 177.4 178.6 1.2 0.7

Tuscaloosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.0 105.0 107.8 108.9 1.1 1.0

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353.4 352.1 350.8 348.6 -2.2 -0.6

Anchorage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.6 180.8 180.4 179.1 -1.3 -0.7

Fairbanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.4 38.5 39.2 39.4 0.2 0.5

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,702.6 2,775.6 2,757.1 2,839.9 82.8 3.0

Flagstaff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.9 68.1 67.5 68.3 0.8 1.2

Lake Havasu City-Kingman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.3 50.9 50.1 51.9 1.8 3.6

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,985.6 2,048.7 2,025.6 2,099.1 73.5 3.6

Prescott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.9 64.8 63.9 65.0 1.1 1.7

Sierra Vista-Douglas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.0 32.3 32.9 32.9 0.0 0.0

Tucson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364.9 372.6 370.1 379.6 9.5 2.6

Yuma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.4 52.2 53.1 54.0 0.9 1.7

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,223.2 1,237.9 1,230.9 1,238.9 8.0 0.6

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248.7 254.8 251.2 257.3 6.1 2.4

Fort Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110.2 110.4 111.7 111.8 0.1 0.1

Hot Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.1 38.1 38.0 37.9 -0.1 -0.3

Jonesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.6 57.9 57.3 58.5 1.2 2.1

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355.7 362.5 357.9 361.9 4.0 1.1

Pine Bluff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.0 32.1 32.4 32.3 -0.1 -0.3

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,721.3 17,038.6 16,794.0 17,127.0 333.0 2.0

Bakersfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253.0 258.5 256.0 262.1 6.1 2.4

Chico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.5 83.0 80.9 83.8 2.9 3.6

El Centro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.7 51.8 51.9 53.1 1.2 2.3

Fresno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341.4 354.4 344.0 353.1 9.1 2.6

Hanford-Corcoran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.0 39.9 40.5 40.6 0.1 0.2

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,008.6 6,071.9 6,027.9 6,100.9 73.0 1.2

Madera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.4 38.5 37.8 39.0 1.2 3.2

Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.2 67.4 67.0 69.7 2.7 4.0

Modesto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.7 178.3 178.5 180.6 2.1 1.2

Napa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.8 73.1 73.3 73.4 0.1 0.1

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301.8 304.7 303.0 308.1 5.1 1.7

Redding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.6 67.0 66.5 68.4 1.9 2.9

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,432.5 1,481.3 1,443.6 1,494.7 51.1 3.5

Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971.1 984.0 973.3 988.3 15.0 1.5

Salinas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138.6 142.9 139.9 143.6 3.7 2.6

San Diego-Carlsbad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,450.5 1,472.0 1,453.1 1,477.2 24.1 1.7

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,395.5 2,434.6 2,397.7 2,443.3 45.6 1.9

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,100.4 1,134.2 1,103.4 1,137.3 33.9 3.1

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.7 117.2 113.2 115.2 2.0 1.8

Santa Cruz-Watsonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.8 104.7 102.0 103.9 1.9 1.9

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181.0 182.2 181.4 182.7 1.3 0.7

Santa Rosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204.7 209.4 207.2 211.9 4.7 2.3

Stockton-Lodi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232.9 240.8 237.0 244.6 7.6 3.2

Vallejo-Fairfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137.6 138.0 138.9 139.0 0.1 0.1

Visalia-Porterville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123.3 126.2 125.7 129.0 3.3 2.6

Yuba City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.0 43.1 44.2 44.0 -0.2 -0.5

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,669.8 2,752.7 2,676.8 2,749.9 73.1 2.7

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

July August Change from

August 2017 to August 2018p

2017 2018 2017 2018p Number Percent

Colorado - Continued

Boulder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186.7 190.2 188.1 192.1 4.0 2.1

Colorado Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287.5 301.1 288.3 300.1 11.8 4.1

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,470.4 1,517.9 1,473.1 1,514.1 41.0 2.8

Fort Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166.4 171.9 167.0 172.2 5.2 3.1

Grand Junction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.7 64.2 63.3 64.7 1.4 2.2

Greeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.5 107.8 104.7 109.8 5.1 4.9

Pueblo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.7 62.4 61.5 62.2 0.7 1.1

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,676.9 1,703.0 1,672.5 1,695.0 22.5 1.3

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412.0 415.7 407.5 410.3 2.8 0.7

Danbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.2 79.2 77.5 78.6 1.1 1.4

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566.3 578.0 563.4 574.3 10.9 1.9

New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.1 285.5 279.8 282.8 3.0 1.1

Norwich-New London-Westerly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.1 134.2 131.8 133.8 2.0 1.5

Waterbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.7 66.6 66.3 66.5 0.2 0.3

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460.1 468.9 457.6 465.1 7.5 1.6

Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.2 70.4 67.6 69.8 2.2 3.3

Salisbury1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.3 169.6 171.8 169.2 -2.6 -1.5

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795.2 803.7 780.6 790.0 9.4 1.2

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,283.1 3,359.8 3,266.3 3,331.2 64.9 2.0

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,455.9 8,676.0 8,547.1 8,769.4 222.3 2.6

Cape Coral-Fort Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257.2 261.6 260.4 263.8 3.4 1.3

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.8 121.5 115.4 120.6 5.2 4.5

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198.2 202.4 200.1 205.0 4.9 2.4

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138.4 140.9 138.8 141.4 2.6 1.9

Homosassa Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.2 32.5 33.3 33.5 0.2 0.6

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685.9 707.9 692.2 713.8 21.6 3.1

Lakeland-Winter Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216.3 222.1 220.3 225.7 5.4 2.5

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,595.2 2,636.5 2,620.8 2,659.6 38.8 1.5

Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.9 139.9 141.9 141.4 -0.5 -0.4

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295.7 303.9 299.3 306.0 6.7 2.2

Ocala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.1 103.8 101.7 104.8 3.1 3.0

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,234.6 1,289.0 1,247.0 1,298.7 51.7 4.1

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.6 217.2 215.2 218.8 3.6 1.7

Panama City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.3 88.5 86.0 88.2 2.2 2.6

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.7 179.8 177.9 181.8 3.9 2.2

Port St. Lucie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.0 144.9 145.2 147.3 2.1 1.4

Punta Gorda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.8 47.9 47.3 48.2 0.9 1.9

Sebastian-Vero Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.4 51.1 50.8 51.7 0.9 1.8

Sebring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.6 24.2 25.8 25.3 -0.5 -1.9

Tallahassee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.6 178.5 175.9 180.1 4.2 2.4

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,307.6 1,337.0 1,320.2 1,352.6 32.4 2.5

The Villages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.4 27.6 28.2 28.4 0.2 0.7

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,428.1 4,527.3 4,467.1 4,554.1 87.0 1.9

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.7 62.8 62.4 63.0 0.6 1.0

Athens-Clarke County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.9 99.0 96.8 99.6 2.8 2.9

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,714.6 2,776.5 2,737.7 2,791.4 53.7 2.0

Augusta-Richmond County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232.5 240.7 235.5 240.9 5.4 2.3

Brunswick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.6 44.9 44.4 44.7 0.3 0.7

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.1 122.6 120.9 123.0 2.1 1.7

Dalton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.1 68.3 67.4 68.6 1.2 1.8

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.8 93.4 90.3 94.5 4.2 4.7

Hinesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.0 20.5 20.5 20.8 0.3 1.5

Macon-Bibb County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.1 103.1 103.2 103.7 0.5 0.5

Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.7 41.4 41.1 41.6 0.5 1.2

Savannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179.5 178.9 179.7 178.9 -0.8 -0.4

Valdosta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.2 56.8 55.7 57.2 1.5 2.7

Warner Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.2 74.1 74.2 74.8 0.6 0.8

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643.6 655.7 642.9 658.3 15.4 2.4

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

July August Change from

August 2017 to August 2018p

2017 2018 2017 2018p Number Percent

Hawaii - Continued

Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.2 78.2 76.7 78.8 2.1 2.7

Urban Honolulu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467.6 476.2 466.3 478.0 11.7 2.5

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722.1 747.7 721.1 744.3 23.2 3.2

Boise City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317.1 329.7 318.7 329.9 11.2 3.5

Coeur d’Alene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.7 68.0 65.5 68.1 2.6 4.0

Idaho Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.1 68.2 66.0 67.6 1.6 2.4

Lewiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.1 29.8 29.1 29.4 0.3 1.0

Pocatello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.8 37.0 35.7 36.8 1.1 3.1

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,075.4 6,149.0 6,083.1 6,138.0 54.9 0.9

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.2 91.8 92.8 92.6 -0.2 -0.2

Carbondale-Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.6 56.2 56.6 56.1 -0.5 -0.9

Champaign-Urbana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.4 108.0 104.9 106.6 1.7 1.6

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,722.5 4,777.4 4,726.0 4,762.3 36.3 0.8

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.1 28.1 28.2 28.4 0.2 0.7

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186.1 186.9 186.1 188.2 2.1 1.1

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.9 51.7 51.1 51.6 0.5 1.0

Kankakee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.0 49.0 46.6 49.5 2.9 6.2

Peoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171.5 172.1 173.0 173.0 0.0 0.0

Rockford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.1 152.0 151.1 152.7 1.6 1.1

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113.1 112.9 116.0 115.6 -0.4 -0.3

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,063.8 3,109.2 3,110.9 3,151.9 41.0 1.3

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.4 68.3 74.0 73.0 -1.0 -1.4

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.0 53.9 52.5 55.1 2.6 5.0

Elkhart-Goshen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.8 144.1 138.9 145.3 6.4 4.6

Evansville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159.2 163.2 160.1 163.1 3.0 1.9

Fort Wayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219.0 224.1 221.1 227.8 6.7 3.0

Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,051.8 1,073.5 1,065.0 1,086.2 21.2 2.0

Kokomo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.1 43.3 41.8 44.1 2.3 5.5

Lafayette-West Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.5 102.5 104.1 105.3 1.2 1.2

Michigan City-La Porte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.3 40.9 41.7 40.9 -0.8 -1.9

Muncie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.5 51.2 52.2 51.7 -0.5 -1.0

South Bend-Mishawaka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137.6 137.7 137.9 137.6 -0.3 -0.2

Terre Haute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.1 69.7 69.8 71.0 1.2 1.7

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,564.7 1,590.7 1,566.3 1,587.5 21.2 1.4

Ames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.9 50.0 50.7 52.1 1.4 2.8

Cedar Rapids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.7 144.8 143.6 144.7 1.1 0.8

Des Moines-West Des Moines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366.4 378.7 366.1 377.9 11.8 3.2

Dubuque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.1 58.9 59.1 59.3 0.2 0.3

Iowa City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.5 100.4 101.4 101.6 0.2 0.2

Sioux City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.2 87.6 86.1 86.9 0.8 0.9

Waterloo-Cedar Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.9 89.0 88.7 89.0 0.3 0.3

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,385.9 1,411.0 1,389.0 1,418.9 29.9 2.2

Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.1 49.5 49.7 53.0 3.3 6.6

Manhattan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.8 39.2 39.0 42.2 3.2 8.2

Topeka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.4 110.9 111.1 111.5 0.4 0.4

Wichita. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290.6 294.5 291.3 296.0 4.7 1.6

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,911.0 1,926.4 1,921.6 1,931.6 10.0 0.5

Bowling Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.7 75.7 74.9 77.7 2.8 3.7

Elizabethtown-Fort Knox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.8 57.4 56.8 57.7 0.9 1.6

Lexington-Fayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.6 279.2 277.1 279.9 2.8 1.0

Louisville/Jefferson County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666.2 667.9 668.3 669.4 1.1 0.2

Owensboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.2 54.8 54.3 54.8 0.5 0.9

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,954.2 1,977.6 1,961.6 1,978.2 16.6 0.8

Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.8 62.0 61.8 61.8 0.0 0.0

Baton Rouge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402.0 410.1 405.5 412.1 6.6 1.6

Hammond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.3 46.5 46.2 47.0 0.8 1.7

Houma-Thibodaux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.7 86.0 85.8 85.7 -0.1 -0.1

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201.0 200.6 201.2 201.4 0.2 0.1

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

July August Change from

August 2017 to August 2018p

2017 2018 2017 2018p Number Percent

Louisiana - Continued

Lake Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.2 119.6 117.4 119.8 2.4 2.0

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.6 78.5 77.6 78.1 0.5 0.6

New Orleans-Metairie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568.5 578.1 570.8 576.4 5.6 1.0

Shreveport-Bossier City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179.0 179.7 179.1 179.3 0.2 0.1

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640.0 649.7 638.6 647.3 8.7 1.4

Bangor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.6 66.1 65.3 65.6 0.3 0.5

Lewiston-Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.2 50.6 50.1 50.3 0.2 0.4

Portland-South Portland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.4 218.2 213.1 217.2 4.1 1.9

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,733.3 2,762.2 2,730.8 2,761.6 30.8 1.1

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,403.1 1,420.9 1,401.6 1,426.5 24.9 1.8

California-Lexington Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.8 45.7 44.8 45.3 0.5 1.1

Cumberland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.7 39.2 38.6 38.9 0.3 0.8

Hagerstown-Martinsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.7 107.0 104.7 107.2 2.5 2.4

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,643.0 3,720.0 3,629.5 3,705.9 76.4 2.1

Barnstable Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.6 123.3 121.9 122.5 0.6 0.5

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,750.8 2,812.8 2,741.6 2,804.3 62.7 2.3

Leominster-Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.6 53.1 52.4 53.1 0.7 1.3

New Bedford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.0 68.7 67.5 68.3 0.8 1.2

Pittsfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.0 44.3 43.3 43.8 0.5 1.2

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331.6 335.7 330.8 336.8 6.0 1.8

Worcester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283.5 291.1 283.7 290.7 7.0 2.5

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,344.1 4,421.8 4,366.1 4,428.0 61.9 1.4

Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.9 217.5 215.6 217.8 2.2 1.0

Battle Creek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.3 58.2 58.3 58.6 0.3 0.5

Bay City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.3 35.6 35.3 35.8 0.5 1.4

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,995.3 2,023.9 2,009.6 2,027.5 17.9 0.9

Flint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.8 139.7 140.9 140.8 -0.1 -0.1

Grand Rapids-Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548.3 563.0 550.2 562.3 12.1 2.2

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.2 57.4 57.9 57.7 -0.2 -0.3

Kalamazoo-Portage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.8 148.0 145.7 147.8 2.1 1.4

Lansing-East Lansing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226.4 231.2 227.4 231.7 4.3 1.9

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.5 37.3 37.4 37.5 0.1 0.3

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.1 42.1 41.0 42.0 1.0 2.4

Muskegon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.3 65.7 65.2 65.6 0.4 0.6

Niles-Benton Harbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.5 63.8 63.5 63.7 0.2 0.3

Saginaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.1 87.5 87.2 88.0 0.8 0.9

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,947.7 3,006.7 2,951.6 3,002.8 51.2 1.7

Duluth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.0 137.9 135.9 138.1 2.2 1.6

Mankato-North Mankato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.2 57.6 56.4 58.8 2.4 4.3

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,998.9 2,040.1 2,002.9 2,044.0 41.1 2.1

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.0 122.1 122.4 121.9 -0.5 -0.4

St. Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.8 110.9 109.7 111.5 1.8 1.6

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,135.7 1,154.0 1,146.8 1,169.1 22.3 1.9

Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155.5 155.8 155.4 156.0 0.6 0.4

Hattiesburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.1 64.4 64.0 64.8 0.8 1.3

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276.6 281.3 278.6 284.0 5.4 1.9

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,849.3 2,884.2 2,859.3 2,893.4 34.1 1.2

Cape Girardeau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.5 43.6 43.8 44.8 1.0 2.3

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.2 96.8 97.1 97.5 0.4 0.4

Jefferson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.4 76.8 76.4 76.8 0.4 0.5

Joplin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.9 79.8 78.7 79.5 0.8 1.0

Kansas City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,079.9 1,099.1 1,081.9 1,101.9 20.0 1.8

St. Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.8 64.7 63.5 64.8 1.3 2.0

St. Louis2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,369.4 1,383.7 1,375.7 1,386.5 10.8 0.8

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209.7 211.9 208.4 211.0 2.6 1.2

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479.1 487.0 480.0 488.5 8.5 1.8

Billings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.1 86.0 85.6 86.2 0.6 0.7

Great Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.0 35.6 35.3 35.9 0.6 1.7

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

July August Change from

August 2017 to August 2018p

2017 2018 2017 2018p Number Percent

Montana - Continued

Missoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.0 61.1 60.6 61.5 0.9 1.5

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,013.9 1,032.9 1,017.1 1,032.7 15.6 1.5

Grand Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.3 42.8 42.3 42.6 0.3 0.7

Lincoln. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.4 189.5 188.3 191.0 2.7 1.4

Omaha-Council Bluffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498.7 509.3 498.8 507.6 8.8 1.8

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,337.9 1,386.1 1,342.1 1,389.5 47.4 3.5

Carson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.3 31.3 30.3 31.2 0.9 3.0

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971.1 1,008.6 974.3 1,010.5 36.2 3.7

Reno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230.8 239.6 232.3 241.2 8.9 3.8

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678.6 694.7 678.7 695.9 17.2 2.5

Dover-Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.2 53.9 52.6 54.0 1.4 2.7

Manchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.2 112.9 111.9 113.2 1.3 1.2

Portsmouth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.9 97.9 96.3 97.9 1.6 1.7

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,141.5 4,227.8 4,128.3 4,210.4 82.1 2.0

Atlantic City-Hammonton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130.3 139.0 130.4 139.4 9.0 6.9

Ocean City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.5 57.5 57.2 56.1 -1.1 -1.9

Trenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265.3 276.1 265.9 275.8 9.9 3.7

Vineland-Bridgeton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.7 58.0 57.4 58.1 0.7 1.2

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818.6 837.8 829.2 845.2 16.0 1.9

Albuquerque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386.9 396.5 388.7 396.6 7.9 2.0

Farmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.0 48.2 47.5 48.4 0.9 1.9

Las Cruces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.0 67.3 70.1 68.9 -1.2 -1.7

Santa Fe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.0 65.1 63.2 64.3 1.1 1.7

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,535.3 9,670.8 9,512.5 9,636.5 124.0 1.3

Albany-Schenectady-Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465.3 467.9 465.8 465.6 -0.2 0.0

Binghamton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.0 102.7 102.5 102.5 0.0 0.0

Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562.4 569.7 563.7 572.9 9.2 1.6

Elmira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.4 36.4 36.9 36.4 -0.5 -1.4

Glens Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.6 60.6 59.4 60.4 1.0 1.7

Ithaca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 63.4 61.2 63.8 2.6 4.2

Kingston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.0 63.2 61.9 63.2 1.3 2.1

New York-Newark-Jersey City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,698.6 9,837.4 9,654.9 9,791.0 136.1 1.4

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528.4 536.5 528.2 534.5 6.3 1.2

Syracuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315.0 319.7 315.4 318.8 3.4 1.1

Utica-Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.0 129.0 128.7 129.1 0.4 0.3

Watertown-Fort Drum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.9 43.9 43.8 43.8 0.0 0.0

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,362.1 4,471.5 4,425.1 4,525.3 100.2 2.3

Asheville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188.3 192.9 190.2 193.5 3.3 1.7

Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.2 60.7 60.9 61.7 0.8 1.3

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,167.0 1,199.7 1,183.2 1,215.2 32.0 2.7

Durham-Chapel Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308.2 315.7 311.2 319.8 8.6 2.8

Fayetteville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.6 128.0 128.5 129.4 0.9 0.7

Goldsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.7 40.5 41.3 41.5 0.2 0.5

Greensboro-High Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351.7 357.9 357.9 362.5 4.6 1.3

Greenville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.8 79.5 79.3 80.4 1.1 1.4

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.3 153.1 152.5 155.8 3.3 2.2

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.8 47.2 49.4 49.7 0.3 0.6

New Bern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.5 45.0 45.0 45.7 0.7 1.6

Raleigh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615.4 638.6 622.2 641.8 19.6 3.2

Rocky Mount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.6 54.0 55.0 54.7 -0.3 -0.5

Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.3 127.5 127.7 128.7 1.0 0.8

Winston-Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259.3 263.4 262.2 264.7 2.5 1.0

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430.8 435.0 430.2 435.3 5.1 1.2

Bismarck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.2 73.5 72.0 72.7 0.7 1.0

Fargo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.1 141.4 140.3 141.9 1.6 1.1

Grand Forks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.5 54.9 54.8 54.9 0.1 0.2

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,542.7 5,643.2 5,556.2 5,650.4 94.2 1.7

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

July August Change from

August 2017 to August 2018p

2017 2018 2017 2018p Number Percent

Ohio - Continued

Akron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338.0 344.1 338.3 345.2 6.9 2.0

Canton-Massillon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.2 175.6 173.6 174.5 0.9 0.5

Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,095.6 1,115.2 1,100.5 1,114.2 13.7 1.2

Cleveland-Elyria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,065.6 1,091.3 1,067.4 1,094.0 26.6 2.5

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,088.2 1,101.5 1,093.1 1,102.2 9.1 0.8

Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389.2 388.4 389.8 394.1 4.3 1.1

Lima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.4 53.0 53.6 53.3 -0.3 -0.6

Mansfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.4 53.3 52.4 53.4 1.0 1.9

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.1 50.0 50.3 50.7 0.4 0.8

Toledo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304.1 307.8 304.7 307.0 2.3 0.8

Weirton-Steubenville1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.3 41.3 41.5 41.4 -0.1 -0.2

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218.5 218.1 219.8 217.8 -2.0 -0.9

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,647.4 1,679.1 1,655.6 1,688.5 32.9 2.0

Enid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.7 26.0 25.5 25.8 0.3 1.2

Lawton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.0 45.5 45.1 45.5 0.4 0.9

Oklahoma City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629.0 648.3 632.8 649.4 16.6 2.6

Tulsa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445.4 457.8 446.0 459.0 13.0 2.9

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,866.9 1,918.0 1,871.3 1,920.9 49.6 2.7

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.0 45.7 44.0 46.1 2.1 4.8

Bend-Redmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.0 86.3 83.2 86.5 3.3 4.0

Corvallis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.1 40.4 40.1 40.2 0.1 0.2

Eugene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155.9 161.3 155.6 161.0 5.4 3.5

Grants Pass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.7 26.6 26.1 26.5 0.4 1.5

Medford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.9 88.7 86.1 88.7 2.6 3.0

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,172.6 1,202.9 1,173.9 1,203.0 29.1 2.5

Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.6 165.3 162.9 166.9 4.0 2.5

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,918.9 6,023.5 5,921.1 5,997.8 76.7 1.3

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366.7 376.5 366.5 373.3 6.8 1.9

Altoona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.7 62.1 62.0 62.5 0.5 0.8

Bloomsburg-Berwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.8 41.9 42.0 42.1 0.1 0.2

Chambersburg-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.4 60.7 59.7 61.5 1.8 3.0

East Stroudsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.5 59.7 59.3 59.4 0.1 0.2

Erie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.9 128.2 126.2 127.8 1.6 1.3

Gettysburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.7 35.8 34.7 35.6 0.9 2.6

Harrisburg-Carlisle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344.3 350.8 344.4 349.2 4.8 1.4

Johnstown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.2 55.2 54.1 55.4 1.3 2.4

Lancaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253.3 257.0 253.4 256.4 3.0 1.2

Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.7 51.9 51.8 51.8 0.0 0.0

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,893.4 2,953.7 2,892.1 2,939.9 47.8 1.7

Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,174.1 1,189.5 1,172.7 1,178.6 5.9 0.5

Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.4 179.4 175.9 178.8 2.9 1.6

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260.6 268.6 260.9 267.5 6.6 2.5

State College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.3 75.4 76.6 76.9 0.3 0.4

Williamsport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.9 52.0 53.1 52.2 -0.9 -1.7

York-Hanover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183.8 186.9 184.7 188.5 3.8 2.1

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496.4 509.4 496.6 506.6 10.0 2.0

Providence-Warwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589.5 601.9 590.0 599.8 9.8 1.7

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,093.5 2,130.5 2,093.3 2,131.8 38.5 1.8

Charleston-North Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356.1 362.3 355.2 362.0 6.8 1.9

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397.1 400.7 393.3 401.1 7.8 2.0

Florence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.1 88.9 87.7 88.7 1.0 1.1

Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412.2 417.9 415.1 420.3 5.2 1.3

Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.3 83.6 80.8 82.7 1.9 2.4

Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.9 181.8 173.9 179.5 5.6 3.2

Spartanburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.3 154.7 153.3 154.8 1.5 1.0

Sumter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.1 39.7 39.4 39.8 0.4 1.0

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438.3 448.2 440.4 449.7 9.3 2.1

Rapid City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.5 72.9 72.9 73.5 0.6 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]

State and area

July August Change from

August 2017 to August 2018p

2017 2018 2017 2018p Number Percent

South Dakota - Continued

Sioux Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157.0 159.2 156.7 159.6 2.9 1.9

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,982.9 3,043.6 3,007.3 3,064.7 57.4 1.9

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254.7 263.7 256.7 265.3 8.6 3.4

Clarksville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.0 89.1 89.9 90.7 0.8 0.9

Cleveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.8 46.2 46.7 47.1 0.4 0.9

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.3 69.6 68.8 70.1 1.3 1.9

Johnson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.9 77.9 79.1 79.0 -0.1 -0.1

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.7 121.8 121.2 123.0 1.8 1.5

Knoxville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391.5 394.2 395.6 397.7 2.1 0.5

Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636.1 651.2 641.3 655.5 14.2 2.2

Morristown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.8 46.1 45.4 46.5 1.1 2.4

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973.9 991.7 983.5 997.5 14.0 1.4

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,173.8 12,555.8 12,198.4 12,585.3 386.9 3.2

Abilene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.5 69.3 68.1 69.6 1.5 2.2

Amarillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.9 121.2 117.9 121.1 3.2 2.7

Austin-Round Rock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,029.8 1,059.6 1,029.9 1,063.5 33.6 3.3

Beaumont-Port Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162.0 161.4 160.9 161.5 0.6 0.4

Brownsville-Harlingen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.2 142.8 141.4 142.6 1.2 0.8

College Station-Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.8 116.3 110.9 115.1 4.2 3.8

Corpus Christi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191.5 190.7 191.0 191.6 0.6 0.3

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,585.8 3,704.4 3,601.1 3,716.0 114.9 3.2

El Paso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307.0 314.5 309.1 315.8 6.7 2.2

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,011.3 3,115.7 3,012.9 3,123.1 110.2 3.7

Killeen-Temple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.3 145.2 142.7 145.9 3.2 2.2

Laredo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.9 103.9 103.6 104.2 0.6 0.6

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.9 96.0 96.2 96.2 0.0 0.0

Lubbock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.4 150.7 147.5 151.6 4.1 2.8

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251.1 256.9 253.7 258.7 5.0 2.0

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.5 103.5 95.2 104.0 8.8 9.2

Odessa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.4 75.4 73.9 75.5 1.6 2.2

San Angelo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.6 49.1 48.9 49.6 0.7 1.4

San Antonio-New Braunfels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,037.7 1,050.6 1,039.3 1,051.6 12.3 1.2

Sherman-Denison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.2 48.3 47.2 48.3 1.1 2.3

Texarkana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.6 59.3 58.8 59.5 0.7 1.2

Tyler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.9 107.9 104.2 108.1 3.9 3.7

Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.0 40.1 40.6 40.1 -0.5 -1.2

Waco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.7 122.0 120.7 122.5 1.8 1.5

Wichita Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.7 59.2 58.5 59.0 0.5 0.9

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,453.6 1,511.7 1,463.1 1,517.8 54.7 3.7

Logan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.2 60.1 58.6 60.3 1.7 2.9

Ogden-Clearfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255.0 261.7 255.6 261.0 5.4 2.1

Provo-Orem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241.8 253.6 246.0 257.0 11.0 4.5

St. George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.9 66.5 64.0 67.0 3.0 4.7

Salt Lake City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711.4 736.4 715.6 736.9 21.3 3.0

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310.2 309.5 311.8 309.7 -2.1 -0.7

Burlington-South Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.0 122.7 124.3 121.5 -2.8 -2.3

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,958.3 4,022.6 3,955.4 4,010.8 55.4 1.4

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.1 74.3 76.2 77.0 0.8 1.0

Charlottesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.6 119.0 114.5 118.6 4.1 3.6

Harrisonburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.6 66.4 65.2 65.7 0.5 0.8

Lynchburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.5 105.1 104.0 106.2 2.2 2.1

Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673.0 684.4 672.7 680.1 7.4 1.1

Roanoke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158.9 160.7 159.4 160.8 1.4 0.9

Staunton-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.6 50.8 49.6 50.5 0.9 1.8

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787.1 795.4 787.5 794.4 6.9 0.9

Winchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.3 65.5 63.6 65.6 2.0 3.1

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,343.3 3,448.1 3,334.2 3,446.7 112.5 3.4

Bellingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.9 94.7 90.3 93.2 2.9 3.2

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

July August Change from

August 2017 to August 2018p

2017 2018 2017 2018p Number Percent

Washington - Continued

Bremerton-Silverdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.6 93.6 91.0 92.7 1.7 1.9

Kennewick-Richland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.5 117.3 114.0 116.7 2.7 2.4

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.0 41.0 39.9 41.2 1.3 3.3

Mount Vernon-Anacortes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.7 52.0 50.6 51.2 0.6 1.2

Olympia-Tumwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.1 119.4 115.3 118.8 3.5 3.0

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,011.1 2,082.6 2,008.2 2,085.9 77.7 3.9

Spokane-Spokane Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244.6 246.4 244.0 246.3 2.3 0.9

Walla Walla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.1 28.2 27.2 28.1 0.9 3.3

Wenatchee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.7 48.3 46.2 47.4 1.2 2.6

Yakima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.4 90.6 86.3 90.8 4.5 5.2

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736.9 746.9 739.5 747.6 8.1 1.1

Beckley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.5 45.3 45.8 45.3 -0.5 -1.1

Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.6 116.2 116.9 116.2 -0.7 -0.6

Huntington-Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.4 135.9 137.9 137.1 -0.8 -0.6

Morgantown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.1 70.9 69.1 71.3 2.2 3.2

Parkersburg-Vienna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.5 39.7 39.7 39.6 -0.1 -0.3

Wheeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.5 66.5 66.4 66.2 -0.2 -0.3

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,965.6 3,009.8 2,961.3 3,004.3 43.0 1.5

Appleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126.0 128.5 126.4 128.9 2.5 2.0

Eau Claire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.2 87.9 86.1 87.7 1.6 1.9

Fond du Lac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.3 49.1 48.0 48.8 0.8 1.7

Green Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179.2 181.9 180.0 181.6 1.6 0.9

Janesville-Beloit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.2 70.5 69.6 70.0 0.4 0.6

La Crosse-Onalaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.4 79.8 77.4 79.2 1.8 2.3

Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401.6 407.5 401.5 406.1 4.6 1.1

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869.5 880.0 873.1 880.4 7.3 0.8

Oshkosh-Neenah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.7 98.3 97.8 98.1 0.3 0.3

Racine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.8 79.0 78.6 78.9 0.3 0.4

Sheboygan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.0 65.6 63.9 65.3 1.4 2.2

Wausau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.2 74.3 72.3 74.9 2.6 3.6

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288.3 296.0 288.7 297.1 8.4 2.9

Casper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.6 39.4 39.0 39.2 0.2 0.5

Cheyenne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.2 47.4 46.9 47.3 0.4 0.9

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861.6 841.2 861.9 844.7 -17.2 -2.0

Aguadilla-Isabela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.2 49.8 50.9 50.1 -0.8 -1.6

Arecibo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.3 32.2 33.6 32.3 -1.3 -3.9

Guayama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.3 13.7 14.5 13.7 -0.8 -5.5

Mayaguez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.5 29.7 31.3 29.8 -1.5 -4.8

Ponce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.8 65.3 66.9 65.2 -1.7 -2.5

San German. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.5 18.1 18.6 18.1 -0.5 -2.7

San Juan-Carolina-Caguas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623.0 616.2 627.8 619.6 -8.2 -1.3

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.0 36.6 37.9 36.9 -1.0 -2.6

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

July August Change from

August 2017 to August 2018p

2017 2018 2017 2018p Number Percent

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,721.3 17,038.6 16,794.0 17,127.0 333.0 2.0

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,008.6 6,071.9 6,027.9 6,100.9 73.0 1.2

Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,609.5 1,618.7 1,613.2 1,624.2 11.0 0.7

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,399.1 4,453.2 4,414.7 4,476.7 62.0 1.4

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,395.5 2,434.6 2,397.7 2,443.3 45.6 1.9

Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,160.1 1,178.8 1,161.8 1,183.7 21.9 1.9

San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,118.8 1,137.8 1,120.1 1,140.6 20.5 1.8

San Rafael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.6 118.0 115.8 119.0 3.2 2.8

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795.2 803.7 780.6 790.0 9.4 1.2

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,283.1 3,359.8 3,266.3 3,331.2 64.9 2.0

Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591.8 607.3 592.6 610.2 17.6 3.0

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,691.3 2,752.5 2,673.7 2,721.0 47.3 1.8

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,455.9 8,676.0 8,547.1 8,769.4 222.3 2.6

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,595.2 2,636.5 2,620.8 2,659.6 38.8 1.5

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828.3 838.9 835.1 845.7 10.6 1.3

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,157.3 1,180.5 1,170.5 1,192.6 22.1 1.9

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609.6 617.1 615.2 621.3 6.1 1.0

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,075.4 6,149.0 6,083.1 6,138.0 54.9 0.9

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,722.5 4,777.4 4,726.0 4,762.3 36.3 0.8

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,765.5 3,808.6 3,767.7 3,796.1 28.4 0.8

Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258.0 262.7 258.4 261.0 2.6 1.0

Gary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273.4 277.1 275.7 280.2 4.5 1.6

Lake County-Kenosha County2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425.6 429.0 424.2 425.0 0.8 0.2

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,643.0 3,720.0 3,629.5 3,705.9 76.4 2.1

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,750.8 2,812.8 2,741.6 2,804.3 62.7 2.3

Boston-Cambridge-Newton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,854.4 1,904.0 1,847.2 1,898.4 51.2 2.8

Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.3 81.1 80.4 81.5 1.1 1.4

Framingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.4 174.1 173.6 173.2 -0.4 -0.2

Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.2 70.1 67.9 69.5 1.6 2.4

Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.9 85.8 84.6 85.5 0.9 1.1

Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158.8 163.3 158.3 162.3 4.0 2.5

Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.8 47.8 46.0 47.4 1.4 3.0

Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127.1 128.5 127.0 129.0 2.0 1.6

Peabody-Salem-Beverly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.5 96.5 96.2 95.8 -0.4 -0.4

Taunton-Middleborough-Norton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.4 61.6 60.4 61.7 1.3 2.2

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,344.1 4,421.8 4,366.1 4,428.0 61.9 1.4

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,995.3 2,023.9 2,009.6 2,027.5 17.9 0.9

Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746.5 764.9 756.7 767.5 10.8 1.4

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,248.8 1,259.0 1,252.9 1,260.0 7.1 0.6

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,535.3 9,670.8 9,512.5 9,636.5 124.0 1.3

New York-Newark-Jersey City2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,698.6 9,837.4 9,654.9 9,791.0 136.1 1.4

Dutchess County-Putnam County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148.3 149.2 147.6 148.6 1.0 0.7

Nassau County-Suffolk County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,356.3 1,369.1 1,348.8 1,364.0 15.2 1.1

Newark3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,212.8 1,220.2 1,205.7 1,217.1 11.4 0.9

New York-Jersey City-White Plains2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,981.2 7,098.9 6,952.8 7,061.3 108.5 1.6

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,918.9 6,023.5 5,921.1 5,997.8 76.7 1.3

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,893.4 2,953.7 2,892.1 2,939.9 47.8 1.7

Camden3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536.9 550.7 536.8 548.6 11.8 2.2

Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,069.3 1,081.4 1,068.3 1,077.2 8.9 0.8

Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930.1 956.5 931.1 949.9 18.8 2.0

Wilmington3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357.1 365.1 355.9 364.2 8.3 2.3

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,173.8 12,555.8 12,198.4 12,585.3 386.9 3.2

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,585.8 3,704.4 3,601.1 3,716.0 114.9 3.2

Dallas-Plano-Irving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,558.9 2,649.4 2,569.0 2,660.5 91.5 3.6

Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,026.9 1,055.0 1,032.1 1,055.5 23.4 2.3

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,343.3 3,448.1 3,334.2 3,446.7 112.5 3.4

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,011.1 2,082.6 2,008.2 2,085.9 77.7 3.9

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,699.2 1,755.7 1,695.6 1,762.6 67.0 4.0

Tacoma-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311.9 326.9 312.6 323.3 10.7 3.4

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.

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

August 2018

(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, August 2018

(U.S. average = 1.7 percent)

Above U.S. average

U.S. average or below

NOTE: Map includes data for 388

metropolitan areas based on 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.