For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Wednesday, November 2, 2016 USDL-16-2093 

Technical information: 

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METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT — SEPTEMBER 2016

Unemployment rates were lower in September than a year earlier in 224 of the 387 metropolitan areas, 

higher in 141 areas, and unchanged in 22 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. 

Twenty-six areas had jobless rates of less than 3.0 percent and three areas had rates of at least 10.0 

percent. Nonfarm payroll employment increased over the year in 315 metropolitan areas, decreased in 

65 areas, and was unchanged in 7 areas. The national unemployment rate in September was 4.8 percent, 

not seasonally adjusted, and was little different from that of September 2015. 

Metropolitan Area Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In September, the lowest unemployment rate was in Sioux Falls, S.D., 2.0 percent. El Centro, Calif., and 

Yuma, Ariz., had the highest unemployment rates, 22.7 percent and 20.9 percent, respectively. A total of 

190 areas had September jobless rates below the U.S. rate of 4.8 percent, 184 areas had rates above it, 

and 13 areas had rates equal to that of the nation. (See table 1 and map 1.) 

Yuma, Ariz., had the largest over-the-year unemployment rate decrease in September (-3.8 percentage 

points). Eighteen other areas had rate declines of at least 1.0 percentage point. The largest over-the-year 

rate increases occurred in Casper, Wyo. (+1.9 percentage points), and Erie, Pa. (+1.8 points). 

Of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census population of 1 million or more, Salt Lake City, Utah, 

and Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, Colo., had the lowest unemployment rates in September, 2.8 percent and 

2.9 percent, respectively. New Orleans-Metairie, La., and Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif., had 

the highest rates among the large areas, 6.2 percent each. Thirty-one large areas had over-the-year 

unemployment rate decreases, 16 had increases, and 4 had no change. The largest rate decrease occurred 

in Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, Mass.-N.H. (-1.4 percentage points). The largest over-the-year rate 

increase occurred in Oklahoma City, Okla. (+1.2 percentage points). 

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 September, Framingham, Mass., had the 

lowest unemployment rate among the divisions, 2.7 percent. Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, Mich., had the 

highest division rate, 6.5 percent. (See table 2.) 
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In September, 25 metropolitan divisions had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases, 8 had 

increases, and 5 had no change. The largest rate decline occurred in Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem, 

Mass.-N.H. (-2.1 percentage points). The largest over-the-year rate increases occurred in Montgomery 

County-Bucks County-Chester County, Pa.; New York-Jersey City-White Plains, N.Y.-N.J.; and 

Philadelphia, Pa. (+0.6 percentage point each).

Metropolitan Area Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In September, 315 metropolitan areas had over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment, 65 

had decreases, and 7 had no change. The largest over-the-year employment increases occurred in New 

York-Newark-Jersey City, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa. (+169,400), Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+122,300), 

and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, Calif. (+113,600). The largest over-the-year percentage gain in 

employment occurred in Ann Arbor, Mich. (+6.6 percent), followed by St. George, Utah (+6.3 percent), 

and Prescott, Ariz. (+6.1 percent). (See table 3 and map 2.) 

The largest over-the-year decreases in employment occurred in Lafayette, La. (-7,200), DavenportMoline-Rock Island, Iowa-Ill. (-4,300), and Houma-Thibodaux, La. (-3,400). The largest over-the-year 

percentage decrease in employment occurred in Casper, Wyo. (-5.3 percent), followed by HoumaThibodaux, La. (-3.5 percent), and Carbondale-Marion, Ill., and Lafayette, La. (-3.4 percent each). 

Over the year, nonfarm employment rose in 48 of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census 

population of 1 million or more, fell in Pittsburgh, Pa. (-0.2 percent), and was unchanged in New 

Orleans-Metairie, La., and Oklahoma City, Okla. The largest over-the-year percentage increases in 

employment in these large metropolitan areas occurred in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Fla. (+4.7 

percent), and Jacksonville, Fla. (+4.6 percent), followed by Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas, and 

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. (+3.6 percent each).

Metropolitan Division Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In September, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 37 of the 38 metropolitan divisions over the 

year and was unchanged in Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem, Mass.-N.H. The largest over-the-year 

increase in employment among the metropolitan divisions occurred in New York-Jersey City-White 

Plains, N.Y.-N.J. (+133,300), followed by Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas (+101,300), and Los AngelesLong Beach-Glendale, Calif. (+69,700). (See table 4.) 

The largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment among the metropolitan divisions occurred 

in Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, Fla. (+4.4 percent), followed by Dallas-PlanoIrving, Texas, and Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town, Mass.-N.H. (+4.2 percent each).

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The Regional and State Employment and Unemployment news release for October is scheduled to 

be released on Friday, November 18, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. (EST). The Metropolitan Area 

Employment and Unemployment news release for October is scheduled to be released on 

Wednesday, November 30, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. (EST). 
Technical Note 

This release presents labor force and unemployment data 

from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) 

program (tables 1 and 2) for 387 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, Regional and State Employment 

and Unemployment, and are republished in this release for ease 

of reference. The LAUS and CES programs are both federalstate cooperative endeavors. 

Labor force and unemployment—from the LAUS 

program 

Definitions. The 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 

employment and unemployment 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 (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 labormanagement 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 labor force is the sum of employed and 

unemployed persons. The unemployment rate is the number of 

unemployed as a percent of the 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. 

Employment estimates, 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 data 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 state or balance-of-state totals. A detailed description 

of the estimation procedures is available from BLS upon 

request. 

Annual revisions. 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 reestimation. All substate estimates then are re-estimated using 

updated inputs and adjusted to add to the revised model-based 

totals. In early 2015, a new generation of time-series models 

was implemented, resulting in the replacement of data back to 

the series beginnings. At the same time, enhancements were 

made to the substate estimation methodology, and more timely 

inputs from the American Community Survey were 

incorporated. 

Employment—from the CES program 

Definitions. Employment data refer to persons on 

establishment payrolls who receive pay for any part of the pay 

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

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

those appearing on more than one payroll are counted on each 

payroll. Industries are classified on the basis of their principal 

activity in accordance with the 2012 version of the North 

American Industry Classification System. 

Method of estimation. CES State and Area employment 

data are produced using several estimation procedures. Where 

possible these data are produced using a "weighted link 

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

weighted employment to that of the previous-month weighted 

employment is computed from a sample of establishments 

reporting for both months. The estimates of employment for the 

current month are then obtained by multiplying these ratios by 

the previous month’s employment estimates. The weighted link 

relative technique is utilized for data series where the sample 

size meets certain statistical criteria. 

For some employment series, the sample of 

establishments is very small or highly variable. In these cases, 

a model-based approach is used in estimation. These models 
use the direct sample estimates (described above), combined 

with forecasts of historical (benchmarked) data to decrease 

volatility in estimation. Two different models (Fay-Herriot 

Model and Small Domain Model) are used depending on the 

industry level being estimated. For more detailed information 

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

Annual revisions. Employment estimates are adjusted 

annually to a complete count of jobs, called benchmarks, 

derived principally from tax reports that are submitted by 

employers who are covered under state unemployment 

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

adjust the monthly estimates between the new benchmark and 

the preceding one and also to establish the level of employment 

for the new benchmark month. Thus, the benchmarking process 

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

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

subsequent months. 

Seasonal adjustment. Payroll employment data are 

seasonally adjusted for states, metropolitan areas, and 

metropolitan divisions at the total nonfarm level. For states, 

data are seasonally adjusted at the supersector level as well 

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

once a year, coincident with annual benchmark adjustments. 

Reliability of the estimates

The estimates presented in this release are based on 

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

are subject to sampling and other types of errors. Sampling 

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

that occurs by chance because a sample rather than the entire 

population is surveyed. Survey data also are subject to 

nonsampling errors, such as those which can be introduced into 

the data collection and processing operations. Estimates not 

directly derived from sample surveys are subject to additional 

errors resulting from the specific estimation processes used. 

The sums of individual items may not always equal the totals 

shown in the same tables because of rounding. Unemployment 

rates are computed from unrounded data and thus may differ 

slightly from rates computed using the rounded data displayed 

in the tables. 

Labor force and unemployment estimates. Measures of 

sampling error are not available for metropolitan areas or 

metropolitan divisions. Model-based error measures for states 

are available on the BLS website at 

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

are not available for the areas contained in this release. 

Information on recent data revisions for states and local areas 

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

Employment estimates. Measures of sampling error are 

available for metropolitan areas or metropolitan divisions upon 

request. Measures of sampling error for states down to the 

supersector level are available on the BLS website at 

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

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

Information on recent benchmark revisions is available online 

at www.bls.gov/sae/benchmark2016.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 February 28, 2013. 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 labor 

force and unemployment data for states, census regions and 

divisions, and seven substate areas are available in the news 

release Regional and State Employment and Unemployment. 

Estimates of labor force and unemployment for all states, 

metropolitan areas, counties, cities with a population of 25,000 

or more, and other areas used in the administration of various 

federal economic assistance programs are available on the 

Internet at www.bls.gov/lau/. Employment data from the CES 

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

Information in this release will be made available to 

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

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

 
LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

State and area

Civilian labor force Unemployed

August September Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

August September August September

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,149,959 2,181,061 2,136,040 2,188,762 139,884 123,035 125,914 124,831 6.5 5.6 5.9 5.7

Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . 46,119 46,386 45,279 46,186 3,413 2,848 3,093 2,877 7.4 6.1 6.8 6.2

Auburn-Opelika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,655 73,926 71,159 74,146 3,978 3,612 3,451 3,545 5.6 4.9 4.8 4.8

Birmingham-Hoover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531,976 540,271 526,479 539,070 31,290 28,605 28,324 29,303 5.9 5.3 5.4 5.4

Daphne-Fairhope-Foley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,780 91,647 87,191 90,481 4,997 4,462 4,562 4,565 5.6 4.9 5.2 5.0

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,990 69,298 68,508 69,819 4,499 3,771 4,111 3,890 6.5 5.4 6.0 5.6

Dothan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,430 62,943 62,164 63,142 4,155 3,542 3,753 3,567 6.7 5.6 6.0 5.6

Florence-Muscle Shoals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,431 66,975 66,015 66,863 5,084 4,134 4,533 4,145 7.7 6.2 6.9 6.2

Gadsden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,197 44,000 43,218 43,850 2,806 2,499 2,560 2,558 6.5 5.7 5.9 5.8

Huntsville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209,698 211,686 208,228 212,982 12,236 10,469 10,893 10,586 5.8 4.9 5.2 5.0

Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182,849 184,414 181,370 184,956 13,752 11,953 12,525 12,283 7.5 6.5 6.9 6.6

Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168,920 171,557 167,091 171,190 10,814 9,326 9,617 9,392 6.4 5.4 5.8 5.5

Tuscaloosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,952 114,245 111,725 115,749 6,915 6,479 5,995 6,374 6.2 5.7 5.4 5.5

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369,377 366,122 363,813 360,468 20,742 21,627 21,229 22,948 5.6 5.9 5.8 6.4

Anchorage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199,841 199,732 200,636 199,658 10,172 11,001 10,573 11,853 5.1 5.5 5.3 5.9

Fairbanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,160 46,492 46,576 46,462 2,181 2,282 2,249 2,600 4.6 4.9 4.8 5.6

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,158,214 3,210,192 3,160,727 3,249,314 210,073 190,059 194,679 182,253 6.7 5.9 6.2 5.6

Flagstaff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,883 73,746 74,450 76,034 5,009 4,737 4,585 4,435 6.8 6.4 6.2 5.8

Lake Havasu City-Kingman. . . . . . . . . . . . 80,106 79,880 79,396 79,650 6,654 5,575 6,239 5,437 8.3 7.0 7.9 6.8

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,167,513 2,208,475 2,171,475 2,237,171 122,003 110,417 113,556 108,289 5.6 5.0 5.2 4.8

Prescott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,763 103,002 98,021 104,335 5,731 5,107 5,250 5,155 5.9 5.0 5.4 4.9

Sierra Vista-Douglas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,165 49,913 49,452 50,114 3,897 3,236 3,608 3,189 7.8 6.5 7.3 6.4

Tucson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459,388 467,511 465,412 478,115 27,632 25,031 25,628 24,777 6.0 5.4 5.5 5.2

Yuma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,053 98,054 93,195 94,344 25,544 23,974 22,982 19,678 26.1 24.4 24.7 20.9

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,334,052 1,352,005 1,332,722 1,355,996 65,529 52,076 61,935 53,230 4.9 3.9 4.6 3.9

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers. . . . . . . . . 254,914 263,754 256,052 263,998 8,905 7,347 8,527 7,697 3.5 2.8 3.3 2.9

Fort Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,317 121,781 121,361 121,716 6,329 5,634 6,161 5,881 5.2 4.6 5.1 4.8

Hot Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,737 41,285 40,092 40,924 2,169 1,668 2,092 1,749 5.3 4.0 5.2 4.3

Jonesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,237 63,281 61,167 63,599 2,709 2,064 2,568 2,085 4.4 3.3 4.2 3.3

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway. . . . 351,682 356,569 348,804 354,215 15,383 12,166 14,706 12,720 4.4 3.4 4.2 3.6

Pine Bluff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,669 36,262 36,346 36,100 2,523 2,037 2,318 1,964 6.9 5.6 6.4 5.4

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,998,452 19,357,124 18,917,335 19,437,451 1,159,388 1,076,360 1,063,374 1,029,134 6.1 5.6 5.6 5.3

Bakersfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396,592 402,481 393,170 402,160 37,155 38,944 34,197 36,983 9.4 9.7 8.7 9.2

Chico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,521 102,855 100,506 103,676 7,036 6,830 6,236 6,306 7.0 6.6 6.2 6.1

El Centro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,344 82,053 78,411 79,208 21,318 21,678 19,599 17,968 26.9 26.4 25.0 22.7

Fresno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443,595 451,539 441,901 453,858 40,042 39,097 36,816 37,690 9.0 8.7 8.3 8.3

Hanford-Corcoran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,016 58,534 58,088 58,492 5,261 5,185 4,781 4,876 8.9 8.9 8.2 8.3

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . 6,590,007 6,740,545 6,579,482 6,786,622 408,358 341,791 375,151 334,842 6.2 5.1 5.7 4.9

Madera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,747 63,124 60,392 62,910 5,581 5,197 5,015 4,863 9.2 8.2 8.3 7.7

Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,807 116,268 117,054 119,035 10,985 10,676 9,773 9,819 9.5 9.2 8.3 8.2

Modesto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246,581 249,733 242,828 248,751 20,850 19,756 19,082 18,740 8.5 7.9 7.9 7.5

Napa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,625 77,434 76,011 78,401 3,210 3,131 2,886 2,998 4.2 4.0 3.8 3.8

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. . . . . . . 424,088 427,253 423,466 429,693 25,016 24,517 23,435 23,529 5.9 5.7 5.5 5.5

Redding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,100 74,886 74,485 74,896 5,385 5,074 4,936 4,858 7.2 6.8 6.6 6.5

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. . . . . . 1,955,274 1,988,827 1,948,626 1,996,241 133,034 130,750 121,855 123,481 6.8 6.6 6.3 6.2

Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade. . . 1,062,213 1,081,799 1,055,745 1,087,394 60,843 58,833 56,175 56,307 5.7 5.4 5.3 5.2

Salinas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231,125 228,460 227,666 227,804 13,606 12,902 12,293 12,113 5.9 5.6 5.4 5.3

San Diego-Carlsbad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,569,361 1,590,416 1,557,279 1,594,410 82,050 79,824 75,451 75,506 5.2 5.0 4.8 4.7

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . 2,518,378 2,567,798 2,506,056 2,575,626 107,649 104,918 98,103 99,072 4.3 4.1 3.9 3.8

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. . . . . . . 1,051,910 1,082,401 1,046,711 1,086,151 44,299 43,823 40,844 41,802 4.2 4.0 3.9 3.8

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo

Grande. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,433 143,031 141,195 145,303 6,639 6,471 5,991 6,059 4.7 4.5 4.2 4.2

Santa Cruz-Watsonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145,473 148,372 141,869 146,436 8,823 8,498 7,860 7,826 6.1 5.7 5.5 5.3

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . 219,492 222,955 217,890 222,685 10,817 10,657 9,821 10,156 4.9 4.8 4.5 4.6

Santa Rosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261,681 265,070 261,380 268,114 11,394 10,742 10,345 10,118 4.4 4.1 4.0 3.8

Stockton-Lodi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318,722 323,487 317,869 322,824 25,965 24,951 24,163 24,213 8.1 7.7 7.6 7.5

Vallejo-Fairfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206,441 210,280 205,839 211,456 12,388 11,907 11,313 11,291 6.0 5.7 5.5 5.3

Visalia-Porterville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203,640 206,883 200,994 206,015 21,793 21,927 20,066 21,088 10.7 10.6 10.0 10.2

Yuba City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,747 74,799 72,677 73,271 6,300 5,959 5,829 5,769 8.4 8.0 8.0 7.9

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,837,374 2,904,630 2,828,252 2,906,914 100,174 97,149 90,350 87,510 3.5 3.3 3.2 3.0

Boulder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175,806 180,215 177,693 182,950 5,193 5,155 4,502 4,446 3.0 2.9 2.5 2.4

Colorado Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321,459 323,295 321,042 325,594 13,309 12,652 12,010 11,340 4.1 3.9 3.7 3.5

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,515,405 1,551,412 1,510,307 1,559,800 50,965 49,174 46,253 44,928 3.4 3.2 3.1 2.9

Fort Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181,639 185,992 182,177 187,971 5,451 5,434 4,773 4,746 3.0 2.9 2.6 2.5

Grand Junction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,752 72,484 72,329 73,319 3,656 3,816 3,398 3,449 5.1 5.3 4.7 4.7

Greeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147,496 151,906 147,729 152,536 5,409 5,254 4,788 4,600 3.7 3.5 3.2 3.0

Pueblo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,977 72,273 72,015 73,701 3,691 3,576 3,537 3,286 5.2 4.9 4.9 4.5

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,898,857 1,919,422 1,874,414 1,898,367 106,534 107,133 96,189 96,167 5.6 5.6 5.1 5.1

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk. . . . . . . . . . . 469,508 476,644 460,015 468,890 25,454 25,592 23,167 23,278 5.4 5.4 5.0 5.0

Danbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,571 108,455 105,043 106,884 4,901 4,990 4,300 4,358 4.6 4.6 4.1 4.1

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. . . . 617,682 623,727 612,777 619,176 34,989 35,646 31,357 31,388 5.7 5.7 5.1 5.1

New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322,396 326,149 321,149 324,339 18,552 18,416 16,736 16,661 5.8 5.6 5.2 5.1

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

August September Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

August September August September

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

Connecticut - Continued

Norwich-New London-Westerly. . . . . . . . . 145,221 144,928 142,088 141,850 8,407 8,095 7,629 7,299 5.8 5.6 5.4 5.1

Waterbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,426 112,362 110,140 111,195 7,796 7,670 7,199 7,059 7.0 6.8 6.5 6.3

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471,720 479,554 466,336 472,628 23,704 21,179 22,560 20,103 5.0 4.4 4.8 4.3

Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,349 77,291 76,156 77,318 4,490 3,905 4,074 3,573 5.9 5.1 5.3 4.6

Salisbury1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194,029 200,647 187,414 190,469 10,284 9,265 9,932 8,681 5.3 4.6 5.3 4.6

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389,855 390,102 387,821 389,711 27,026 25,430 26,332 25,401 6.9 6.5 6.8 6.5

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. . . . . . . 3,284,427 3,298,995 3,269,076 3,293,425 144,762 130,588 140,951 126,886 4.4 4.0 4.3 3.9

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,691,397 9,777,323 9,696,612 9,867,408 544,540 482,596 513,732 489,607 5.6 4.9 5.3 5.0

Cape Coral-Fort Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315,295 320,392 317,120 324,567 16,909 14,973 15,977 15,303 5.4 4.7 5.0 4.7

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. . . . 123,288 122,670 120,815 121,420 5,510 4,846 5,194 5,002 4.5 4.0 4.3 4.1

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283,740 291,181 283,840 293,969 16,774 14,725 15,722 15,092 5.9 5.1 5.5 5.1

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134,091 134,862 139,364 140,730 6,466 5,975 6,210 6,270 4.8 4.4 4.5 4.5

Homosassa Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,877 47,411 47,772 47,765 3,632 3,230 3,326 3,217 7.6 6.8 7.0 6.7

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731,162 745,809 730,433 756,278 39,998 35,358 36,552 34,933 5.5 4.7 5.0 4.6

Lakeland-Winter Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281,116 280,883 281,534 283,845 18,525 16,418 17,431 16,672 6.6 5.8 6.2 5.9

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,020,850 3,026,031 3,017,107 3,047,811 175,303 155,421 166,701 156,440 5.8 5.1 5.5 5.1

Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island. . . . . . . . 158,364 160,736 158,822 162,171 9,526 8,533 8,957 8,775 6.0 5.3 5.6 5.4

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton. . . . . . . . . 342,847 345,675 342,811 348,621 17,824 15,789 16,913 16,367 5.2 4.6 4.9 4.7

Ocala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,709 131,160 131,465 132,315 8,587 7,752 8,075 7,881 6.5 5.9 6.1 6.0

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford. . . . . . . . . . . 1,233,613 1,266,440 1,234,988 1,279,218 63,283 56,175 60,024 57,055 5.1 4.4 4.9 4.5

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. . . . . . . . . 259,291 257,023 258,375 260,865 15,497 13,319 14,632 13,567 6.0 5.2 5.7 5.2

Panama City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,549 94,726 94,454 94,545 4,936 4,375 4,639 4,458 5.2 4.6 4.9 4.7

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. . . . . . . . . . . 216,344 215,514 214,872 218,277 11,497 10,403 10,847 10,704 5.3 4.8 5.0 4.9

Port St. Lucie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201,166 202,240 201,483 204,143 12,812 11,406 11,853 11,429 6.4 5.6 5.9 5.6

Punta Gorda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,324 67,802 67,183 68,272 4,137 3,626 3,959 3,803 6.1 5.3 5.9 5.6

Sebastian-Vero Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,033 61,003 60,752 61,246 4,654 4,049 4,328 4,093 7.6 6.6 7.1 6.7

Sebring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,597 34,853 34,797 35,452 2,782 2,397 2,566 2,431 8.0 6.9 7.4 6.9

Tallahassee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184,632 184,246 188,260 189,846 9,921 8,941 9,479 9,235 5.4 4.9 5.0 4.9

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. . . . . . 1,450,614 1,469,756 1,452,525 1,475,582 76,131 67,620 71,781 69,168 5.2 4.6 4.9 4.7

The Villages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,706 29,136 28,601 29,438 2,191 1,961 2,024 2,030 7.6 6.7 7.1 6.9

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,748,198 4,898,670 4,750,081 4,930,692 279,431 255,792 264,442 261,356 5.9 5.2 5.6 5.3

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,551 66,040 64,954 67,457 4,613 4,094 4,346 4,178 7.1 6.2 6.7 6.2

Athens-Clarke County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,671 97,682 94,090 99,600 5,147 4,856 4,936 5,547 5.6 5.0 5.2 5.6

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell. . . . . . . . . 2,826,934 2,923,059 2,825,799 2,943,820 158,695 145,339 150,238 148,013 5.6 5.0 5.3 5.0

Augusta-Richmond County. . . . . . . . . . . . . 255,530 259,964 255,325 259,125 16,483 15,162 15,720 14,886 6.5 5.8 6.2 5.7

Brunswick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,189 51,691 50,020 51,719 3,123 2,720 2,946 2,819 6.2 5.3 5.9 5.5

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,528 125,464 122,835 126,255 8,593 7,712 8,058 7,881 7.0 6.1 6.6 6.2

Dalton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,036 61,034 60,536 61,525 3,784 3,630 3,574 3,668 6.3 5.9 5.9 6.0

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,130 96,268 92,402 96,039 4,332 4,263 4,130 4,205 4.7 4.4 4.5 4.4

Hinesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,797 32,427 31,850 32,451 1,970 1,832 1,876 1,862 6.2 5.6 5.9 5.7

Macon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,514 105,205 102,728 105,760 6,536 5,838 6,171 6,013 6.4 5.5 6.0 5.7

Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,261 43,401 42,536 43,786 2,764 2,541 2,699 2,699 6.5 5.9 6.3 6.2

Savannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175,259 183,515 175,483 184,902 9,694 9,042 9,175 9,239 5.5 4.9 5.2 5.0

Valdosta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,793 63,540 62,197 63,829 3,712 3,271 3,479 3,376 6.0 5.1 5.6 5.3

Warner Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,898 81,222 80,087 81,569 4,892 4,414 4,659 4,577 6.1 5.4 5.8 5.6

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678,539 685,740 675,909 687,091 23,434 21,981 24,844 21,674 3.5 3.2 3.7 3.2

Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,171 86,613 84,460 85,664 2,975 2,909 3,205 2,861 3.5 3.4 3.8 3.3

Urban Honolulu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467,145 470,898 466,039 475,118 15,142 14,042 16,268 14,257 3.2 3.0 3.5 3.0

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802,951 816,373 799,319 813,309 31,524 29,828 29,005 27,875 3.9 3.7 3.6 3.4

Boise City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325,553 333,008 323,832 330,314 12,998 12,576 11,852 11,607 4.0 3.8 3.7 3.5

Coeur d’Alene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,135 74,502 71,774 73,784 3,233 2,956 3,087 2,946 4.4 4.0 4.3 4.0

Idaho Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,817 66,495 64,983 64,935 2,178 2,093 2,053 1,951 3.3 3.1 3.2 3.0

Lewiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,460 30,948 30,200 30,982 1,138 1,118 1,097 1,092 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.5

Pocatello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,257 41,639 41,972 42,064 1,624 1,497 1,484 1,398 3.9 3.6 3.5 3.3

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,522,271 6,611,275 6,485,397 6,565,918 376,499 362,988 345,322 355,825 5.8 5.5 5.3 5.4

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,081 96,925 99,276 97,624 4,837 4,985 4,599 4,999 4.9 5.1 4.6 5.1

Carbondale-Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,274 59,272 61,287 59,488 3,593 3,501 3,464 3,562 6.0 5.9 5.7 6.0

Champaign-Urbana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,198 117,112 120,422 122,346 6,155 5,896 5,783 6,030 5.4 5.0 4.8 4.9

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,903,515 4,979,108 4,855,965 4,935,853 275,346 269,282 248,215 257,296 5.6 5.4 5.1 5.2

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,313 35,552 35,510 35,516 2,590 2,531 2,437 2,550 7.3 7.1 6.9 7.2

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island1. . . . . . . . . 193,811 190,192 191,713 189,294 10,272 10,711 9,862 11,121 5.3 5.6 5.1 5.9

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,947 50,550 50,741 50,371 3,702 3,358 3,403 3,356 7.3 6.6 6.7 6.7

Kankakee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,964 55,569 55,261 55,583 3,659 3,384 3,475 3,460 6.7 6.1 6.3 6.2

Peoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187,457 186,562 185,889 184,329 12,189 11,499 11,202 11,776 6.5 6.2 6.0 6.4

Rockford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169,450 172,532 169,323 171,323 11,788 10,882 11,271 11,241 7.0 6.3 6.7 6.6

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,627 116,345 112,224 113,035 5,872 5,322 5,554 5,427 5.1 4.6 4.9 4.8

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,267,786 3,388,790 3,259,874 3,361,624 145,623 156,738 133,431 140,605 4.5 4.6 4.1 4.2

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,390 76,062 76,700 77,391 3,488 3,929 3,267 3,393 4.7 5.2 4.3 4.4

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,997 45,824 43,700 45,114 1,413 1,633 1,308 1,419 3.2 3.6 3.0 3.1

Elkhart-Goshen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105,239 106,224 104,558 104,869 3,810 4,229 3,579 3,753 3.6 4.0 3.4 3.6

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

August September Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

August September August September

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

Indiana - Continued

Evansville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157,601 160,371 157,217 159,200 6,227 7,115 5,874 6,581 4.0 4.4 3.7 4.1

Fort Wayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210,653 220,752 210,643 218,794 8,636 9,412 7,927 8,357 4.1 4.3 3.8 3.8

Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson. . . . . . . . . . 1,017,153 1,057,423 1,007,606 1,046,846 42,656 44,793 39,006 40,529 4.2 4.2 3.9 3.9

Kokomo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,207 38,589 36,792 37,861 1,714 1,862 1,565 1,600 4.6 4.8 4.3 4.2

Lafayette-West Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,998 109,580 108,558 112,961 4,308 4,759 3,946 4,177 4.1 4.3 3.6 3.7

Michigan City-La Porte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,629 49,093 48,340 48,971 2,756 2,960 2,481 2,663 5.7 6.0 5.1 5.4

Muncie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,702 55,153 54,811 55,759 2,829 3,057 2,558 2,714 5.3 5.5 4.7 4.9

South Bend-Mishawaka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,204 158,608 155,966 158,972 7,053 7,682 6,443 6,963 4.6 4.8 4.1 4.4

Terre Haute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,588 78,659 76,793 78,706 4,347 4,467 3,967 3,991 5.7 5.7 5.2 5.1

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,697,415 1,719,648 1,692,426 1,723,388 59,119 72,226 54,914 64,335 3.5 4.2 3.2 3.7

Ames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,756 55,717 58,423 59,708 1,327 1,614 1,287 1,503 2.4 2.9 2.2 2.5

Cedar Rapids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,728 144,946 142,628 145,759 5,204 6,203 4,834 5,567 3.6 4.3 3.4 3.8

Des Moines-West Des Moines. . . . . . . . . 341,412 346,088 336,437 343,520 10,922 13,607 10,386 12,208 3.2 3.9 3.1 3.6

Dubuque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,771 55,791 55,442 56,478 1,829 2,224 1,702 1,933 3.3 4.0 3.1 3.4

Iowa City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,874 98,204 96,061 99,048 2,505 3,176 2,380 2,884 2.6 3.2 2.5 2.9

Sioux City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,137 93,660 93,047 92,510 3,077 3,619 2,765 3,204 3.3 3.9 3.0 3.5

Waterloo-Cedar Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,558 89,924 90,192 90,874 3,693 4,845 3,386 4,064 4.1 5.4 3.8 4.5

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,494,686 1,479,168 1,494,757 1,480,330 63,554 67,862 55,984 59,508 4.3 4.6 3.7 4.0

Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,100 61,627 66,065 65,669 2,407 2,545 2,156 2,256 3.8 4.1 3.3 3.4

Manhattan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,143 46,034 52,192 50,975 1,647 1,759 1,453 1,582 3.5 3.8 2.8 3.1

Topeka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,581 119,504 119,827 118,323 5,055 5,303 4,445 4,662 4.1 4.4 3.7 3.9

Wichita. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311,580 311,831 308,699 308,657 14,650 16,288 13,267 14,118 4.7 5.2 4.3 4.6

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,935,522 1,978,520 1,937,687 1,997,896 96,562 94,628 95,534 95,425 5.0 4.8 4.9 4.8

Bowling Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,930 76,248 75,488 77,940 3,307 2,870 3,245 2,908 4.4 3.8 4.3 3.7

Elizabethtown-Fort Knox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,295 65,570 63,281 66,475 2,950 2,743 2,964 2,932 4.7 4.2 4.7 4.4

Lexington-Fayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251,447 255,390 252,755 258,286 9,417 8,871 9,570 9,152 3.7 3.5 3.8 3.5

Louisville/Jefferson County. . . . . . . . . . . . . 621,499 641,937 619,804 644,227 27,045 26,670 26,479 26,242 4.4 4.2 4.3 4.1

Owensboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,864 53,694 51,870 54,289 2,171 2,213 2,236 2,292 4.2 4.1 4.3 4.2

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,157,077 2,135,885 2,140,415 2,126,215 137,586 143,435 129,006 143,471 6.4 6.7 6.0 6.7

Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,963 66,394 66,440 65,883 4,409 4,667 4,134 4,586 6.6 7.0 6.2 7.0

Baton Rouge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422,677 426,108 421,226 429,215 23,438 24,474 21,511 25,874 5.5 5.7 5.1 6.0

Hammond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,114 53,579 53,798 53,779 3,952 4,002 3,664 4,067 7.3 7.5 6.8 7.6

Houma-Thibodaux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,783 96,761 98,338 95,242 5,710 6,790 5,488 6,795 5.7 7.0 5.6 7.1

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228,210 220,060 225,522 218,765 14,813 16,672 14,199 16,718 6.5 7.6 6.3 7.6

Lake Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,461 103,862 101,840 103,554 5,518 5,652 5,246 5,648 5.4 5.4 5.2 5.5

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,468 81,147 81,126 80,938 5,508 5,443 5,114 5,312 6.8 6.7 6.3 6.6

New Orleans-Metairie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602,002 595,510 596,643 591,269 36,815 37,077 34,701 36,632 6.1 6.2 5.8 6.2

Shreveport-Bossier City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195,403 193,372 193,579 191,094 13,585 13,798 12,734 13,638 7.0 7.1 6.6 7.1

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694,108 707,695 676,651 693,251 24,355 23,447 23,991 23,808 3.5 3.3 3.5 3.4

Bangor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,188 70,069 69,345 70,743 2,489 2,456 2,414 2,479 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.5

Lewiston-Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,696 56,058 54,253 56,021 1,895 1,798 1,871 1,804 3.5 3.2 3.4 3.2

Portland-South Portland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201,115 207,173 197,133 202,884 5,793 5,523 5,791 5,592 2.9 2.7 2.9 2.8

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,168,355 3,185,114 3,146,530 3,163,386 163,977 143,361 156,050 127,229 5.2 4.5 5.0 4.0

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. . . . . . . . . . . 1,482,683 1,489,351 1,468,519 1,477,474 81,011 70,535 75,821 61,785 5.5 4.7 5.2 4.2

California-Lexington Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,622 54,334 54,226 54,046 2,878 2,442 2,584 2,047 5.3 4.5 4.8 3.8

Cumberland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,759 43,610 43,986 43,647 3,083 2,739 2,759 2,297 7.0 6.3 6.3 5.3

Hagerstown-Martinsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,178 130,885 129,089 129,273 6,938 6,142 6,303 5,308 5.4 4.7 4.9 4.1

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,604,196 3,670,080 3,542,718 3,589,634 170,815 139,752 172,206 118,722 4.7 3.8 4.9 3.3

Barnstable Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136,226 138,372 124,853 126,159 5,868 4,661 6,043 4,031 4.3 3.4 4.8 3.2

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,642,428 2,696,473 2,604,584 2,643,213 114,888 95,422 116,168 81,415 4.3 3.5 4.5 3.1

Leominster-Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,763 77,220 75,055 76,080 4,387 3,612 4,330 2,964 5.8 4.7 5.8 3.9

New Bedford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,087 85,037 82,910 83,129 5,760 4,624 5,795 4,021 6.9 5.4 7.0 4.8

Pittsfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,024 45,405 43,158 43,495 2,237 1,790 2,277 1,555 5.0 3.9 5.3 3.6

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362,894 367,794 360,211 364,607 21,300 17,997 20,465 15,226 5.9 4.9 5.7 4.2

Worcester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345,230 350,989 341,799 347,049 17,909 14,927 17,610 12,825 5.2 4.3 5.2 3.7

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,763,471 4,864,276 4,723,231 4,856,760 247,250 240,708 216,640 214,281 5.2 4.9 4.6 4.4

Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186,573 192,221 185,338 195,443 6,400 6,752 5,746 6,065 3.4 3.5 3.1 3.1

Battle Creek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,361 65,168 63,768 64,378 2,903 2,868 2,571 2,498 4.5 4.4 4.0 3.9

Bay City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,062 52,273 51,785 52,002 2,523 2,468 2,205 2,109 4.8 4.7 4.3 4.1

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,019,229 2,088,485 1,997,382 2,088,620 129,099 125,900 112,407 112,415 6.4 6.0 5.6 5.4

Flint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181,322 181,647 178,979 181,096 9,601 9,022 8,497 8,103 5.3 5.0 4.7 4.5

Grand Rapids-Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552,187 564,277 551,111 560,852 18,719 18,414 16,535 16,337 3.4 3.3 3.0 2.9

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,859 71,566 71,649 70,536 3,360 3,265 3,002 2,868 4.6 4.6 4.2 4.1

Kalamazoo-Portage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164,490 168,490 163,687 168,655 6,806 6,569 6,033 5,904 4.1 3.9 3.7 3.5

Lansing-East Lansing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236,555 240,594 240,966 245,791 9,418 9,080 8,333 8,155 4.0 3.8 3.5 3.3

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,361 41,579 41,098 41,345 1,697 1,701 1,510 1,495 4.1 4.1 3.7 3.6

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,993 77,642 76,032 77,633 3,045 3,343 2,680 2,882 4.0 4.3 3.5 3.7

Muskegon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,105 79,522 76,340 78,567 4,024 3,794 3,521 3,340 5.2 4.8 4.6 4.3

Niles-Benton Harbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,042 75,911 73,725 74,927 3,485 3,334 2,986 2,979 4.6 4.4 4.1 4.0

Saginaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,343 89,870 88,139 90,047 4,308 4,092 3,860 3,650 4.9 4.6 4.4 4.1

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,023,373 3,015,760 3,003,330 2,982,038 100,175 113,815 96,316 100,445 3.3 3.8 3.2 3.4

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

State and area

Civilian labor force Unemployed

August September Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

August September August September

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

Minnesota - Continued

Duluth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,474 141,575 141,365 139,350 6,259 7,809 6,358 6,594 4.4 5.5 4.5 4.7

Mankato-North Mankato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,142 57,632 58,906 57,476 1,561 1,819 1,476 1,599 2.7 3.2 2.5 2.8

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. . . . . . 1,955,947 1,958,038 1,939,856 1,937,174 62,905 70,203 60,910 62,959 3.2 3.6 3.1 3.3

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,983 121,163 118,030 119,155 3,330 3,817 3,136 3,339 2.8 3.2 2.7 2.8

St. Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,915 111,039 109,798 110,033 3,498 3,974 3,315 3,581 3.2 3.6 3.0 3.3

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,268,469 1,270,216 1,276,864 1,280,766 75,600 72,436 78,257 73,802 6.0 5.7 6.1 5.8

Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . 162,844 161,504 162,752 162,015 9,575 9,320 10,135 9,730 5.9 5.8 6.2 6.0

Hattiesburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,436 65,999 66,615 67,726 3,618 3,497 3,780 3,647 5.5 5.3 5.7 5.4

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265,221 267,660 266,241 268,245 13,007 12,712 13,885 13,401 4.9 4.7 5.2 5.0

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,101,431 3,144,384 3,096,299 3,152,310 150,879 168,522 131,841 147,095 4.9 5.4 4.3 4.7

Cape Girardeau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,942 48,846 48,973 49,277 2,247 2,763 1,994 2,451 4.6 5.7 4.1 5.0

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,500 100,476 100,911 103,202 3,374 4,110 2,980 3,495 3.4 4.1 3.0 3.4

Jefferson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,401 77,288 75,937 76,759 3,213 3,674 2,739 3,015 4.2 4.8 3.6 3.9

Joplin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86,688 86,518 87,322 87,003 3,743 4,577 3,234 3,991 4.3 5.3 3.7 4.6

Kansas City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,129,461 1,129,113 1,114,457 1,119,555 54,822 55,534 46,250 49,308 4.9 4.9 4.2 4.4

St. Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,713 66,084 65,187 65,660 2,944 3,176 2,561 2,827 4.5 4.8 3.9 4.3

St. Louis2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,484,321 1,511,387 1,477,176 1,513,408 72,996 78,930 66,284 71,828 4.9 5.2 4.5 4.7

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230,597 235,256 232,335 237,330 9,733 11,355 8,891 9,971 4.2 4.8 3.8 4.2

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531,244 530,392 522,517 519,550 19,166 20,858 17,775 18,168 3.6 3.9 3.4 3.5

Billings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,708 88,899 87,892 88,226 2,742 3,257 2,562 2,825 3.1 3.7 2.9 3.2

Great Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,720 38,405 38,600 38,294 1,479 1,455 1,375 1,314 3.8 3.8 3.6 3.4

Missoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,843 61,211 62,107 62,242 2,016 2,130 1,902 1,870 3.3 3.5 3.1 3.0

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,016,653 1,018,314 1,005,920 1,006,611 30,429 33,206 27,840 30,932 3.0 3.3 2.8 3.1

Grand Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,617 44,173 43,676 43,513 2,271 1,473 1,337 1,376 5.1 3.3 3.1 3.2

Lincoln. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176,687 176,600 177,095 178,126 4,513 5,318 4,336 5,097 2.6 3.0 2.4 2.9

Omaha-Council Bluffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480,082 480,512 474,499 477,328 15,240 16,665 14,521 15,614 3.2 3.5 3.1 3.3

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,430,588 1,431,647 1,431,378 1,428,752 95,640 83,540 94,032 76,724 6.7 5.8 6.6 5.4

Carson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,052 24,822 25,046 24,681 1,754 1,489 1,699 1,377 7.0 6.0 6.8 5.6

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise. . . . . . . . 1,053,327 1,051,337 1,050,740 1,046,758 71,955 63,485 70,736 58,214 6.8 6.0 6.7 5.6

Reno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230,034 234,985 232,750 236,617 13,693 11,545 13,397 10,619 6.0 4.9 5.8 4.5

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750,215 765,095 736,887 749,994 23,619 22,287 22,307 19,585 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.6

Dover-Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,194 83,568 81,926 82,972 2,368 2,249 2,208 2,000 2.9 2.7 2.7 2.4

Manchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,457 117,413 113,886 117,893 3,519 3,430 3,436 3,007 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.6

Portsmouth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,230 77,843 74,434 75,910 2,012 1,979 1,921 1,800 2.6 2.5 2.6 2.4

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,554,347 4,586,752 4,501,453 4,542,898 241,436 246,354 228,213 237,401 5.3 5.4 5.1 5.2

Atlantic City-Hammonton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,011 127,983 126,723 125,150 10,299 9,107 9,730 8,978 8.0 7.1 7.7 7.2

Ocean City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,287 59,293 51,894 52,678 3,469 3,409 3,403 3,445 6.0 5.7 6.6 6.5

Trenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199,304 201,224 197,166 199,250 9,494 9,913 8,808 9,302 4.8 4.9 4.5 4.7

Vineland-Bridgeton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,092 64,813 66,646 66,243 5,398 5,152 4,938 4,939 8.3 7.9 7.4 7.5

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917,714 923,421 913,291 922,576 61,319 63,980 58,552 61,454 6.7 6.9 6.4 6.7

Albuquerque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413,215 416,822 412,108 418,002 26,376 26,857 25,099 25,905 6.4 6.4 6.1 6.2

Farmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,068 55,111 54,810 56,129 4,069 5,182 3,914 4,902 7.5 9.4 7.1 8.7

Las Cruces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,179 93,848 92,573 93,761 6,661 6,641 6,397 6,406 7.1 7.1 6.9 6.8

Santa Fe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,576 73,167 70,432 71,613 3,997 4,057 3,821 3,859 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.4

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,721,758 9,655,805 9,602,631 9,630,584 482,807 474,681 458,211 487,062 5.0 4.9 4.8 5.1

Albany-Schenectady-Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450,489 444,152 443,778 441,823 19,349 17,540 19,159 18,458 4.3 3.9 4.3 4.2

Binghamton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,726 106,775 109,163 107,683 5,960 5,211 5,872 5,594 5.4 4.9 5.4 5.2

Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls. . . . . 555,906 555,565 549,680 548,593 29,157 26,345 28,310 27,264 5.2 4.7 5.2 5.0

Elmira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,957 37,102 37,699 36,948 2,101 1,911 2,153 2,023 5.5 5.2 5.7 5.5

Glens Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,319 63,269 61,084 60,733 2,749 2,505 2,745 2,687 4.3 4.0 4.5 4.4

Ithaca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,782 54,120 54,450 57,383 2,127 1,989 2,095 2,119 4.0 3.7 3.8 3.7

Kingston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,975 89,391 87,927 89,228 4,179 3,851 4,039 3,898 4.7 4.3 4.6 4.4

New York-Newark-Jersey City. . . . . . . . . . 10,102,993 10,085,062 9,980,321 10,042,593 508,097 519,715 476,314 519,217 5.0 5.2 4.8 5.2

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526,907 520,393 522,017 522,216 25,440 23,364 25,210 24,539 4.8 4.5 4.8 4.7

Syracuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312,004 307,814 310,749 309,363 15,566 13,942 15,562 14,868 5.0 4.5 5.0 4.8

Utica-Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133,389 132,194 130,939 129,554 6,499 5,738 6,523 6,164 4.9 4.3 5.0 4.8

Watertown-Fort Drum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,131 48,337 46,551 47,082 2,701 2,444 2,575 2,565 5.6 5.1 5.5 5.4

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,760,466 4,804,554 4,755,224 4,855,070 282,756 241,515 256,616 231,744 5.9 5.0 5.4 4.8

Asheville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218,479 221,075 219,082 225,599 10,280 9,056 9,316 8,650 4.7 4.1 4.3 3.8

Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,550 77,324 76,565 78,175 4,321 3,721 3,843 3,485 5.6 4.8 5.0 4.5

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,232,841 1,255,183 1,229,187 1,259,171 69,622 61,344 63,667 58,706 5.6 4.9 5.2 4.7

Durham-Chapel Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280,371 284,680 280,053 288,939 14,911 12,938 13,232 12,137 5.3 4.5 4.7 4.2

Fayetteville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,800 144,792 144,508 147,325 11,290 9,187 10,267 8,908 7.9 6.3 7.1 6.0

Goldsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,748 53,267 53,208 54,282 3,383 2,968 3,043 2,935 6.4 5.6 5.7 5.4

Greensboro-High Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364,097 366,493 363,325 370,532 22,523 19,090 20,311 18,210 6.2 5.2 5.6 4.9

Greenville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,186 86,470 87,419 88,134 5,754 4,964 5,073 4,497 6.6 5.7 5.8 5.1

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. . . . . . . . . . . . . 166,797 165,355 166,857 167,130 9,802 8,203 8,918 7,826 5.9 5.0 5.3 4.7

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,730 64,629 63,502 64,403 3,978 3,481 3,656 3,386 6.2 5.4 5.8 5.3

New Bern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,485 51,723 50,930 51,824 3,155 2,652 2,923 2,573 6.1 5.1 5.7 5.0

Raleigh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659,577 671,204 657,724 675,449 32,951 28,975 29,810 27,548 5.0 4.3 4.5 4.1

Rocky Mount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,797 64,495 66,061 66,645 5,530 4,765 5,111 4,689 8.4 7.4 7.7 7.0

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

August September Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

August September August September

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

North Carolina - Continued

Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,138 141,784 140,224 143,024 7,845 6,769 7,260 6,505 5.6 4.8 5.2 4.5

Winston-Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316,177 316,975 317,161 322,132 18,037 15,411 16,393 14,636 5.7 4.9 5.2 4.5

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419,155 430,303 412,703 427,064 10,509 12,128 8,603 10,381 2.5 2.8 2.1 2.4

Bismarck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,405 72,213 67,349 71,603 1,559 1,845 1,277 1,608 2.3 2.6 1.9 2.2

Fargo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,250 137,737 131,535 137,424 2,792 3,201 2,566 2,963 2.1 2.3 2.0 2.2

Grand Forks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,751 56,012 54,993 56,689 1,454 1,660 1,234 1,399 2.7 3.0 2.2 2.5

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,720,997 5,804,834 5,667,021 5,732,874 250,304 269,958 243,270 277,005 4.4 4.7 4.3 4.8

Akron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357,963 364,227 356,920 362,205 15,907 16,900 15,354 17,834 4.4 4.6 4.3 4.9

Canton-Massillon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,605 202,361 198,530 199,718 9,477 10,131 9,702 10,778 4.7 5.0 4.9 5.4

Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,079,669 1,099,069 1,069,941 1,087,133 44,743 44,883 43,691 46,590 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.3

Cleveland-Elyria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,031,144 1,039,007 1,015,720 1,028,308 44,576 55,364 42,472 50,731 4.3 5.3 4.2 4.9

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,044,563 1,062,648 1,034,165 1,046,910 39,615 41,124 38,981 43,716 3.8 3.9 3.8 4.2

Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383,070 390,127 378,158 385,112 16,688 17,193 16,306 18,261 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.7

Lima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,197 50,345 47,687 49,217 2,117 2,313 2,023 2,431 4.4 4.6 4.2 4.9

Mansfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,869 53,538 53,152 52,500 2,656 2,619 2,588 2,832 4.9 4.9 4.9 5.4

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,331 64,998 63,425 64,442 2,881 3,065 2,819 3,705 4.5 4.7 4.4 5.7

Toledo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300,431 309,592 300,021 304,946 13,624 14,241 13,140 14,957 4.5 4.6 4.4 4.9

Weirton-Steubenville1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,074 53,596 52,662 53,119 3,785 3,747 3,543 3,632 7.1 7.0 6.7 6.8

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman. . . . . . . . 251,036 251,404 249,678 250,079 13,975 15,248 13,130 15,369 5.6 6.1 5.3 6.1

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,839,393 1,808,593 1,842,550 1,820,351 77,568 92,846 74,965 98,009 4.2 5.1 4.1 5.4

Lawton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,807 52,141 52,408 52,108 2,159 2,521 2,104 2,719 4.1 4.8 4.0 5.2

Oklahoma City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669,384 659,046 670,380 661,641 24,590 29,202 23,611 31,391 3.7 4.4 3.5 4.7

Tulsa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475,915 467,757 476,006 469,769 20,251 25,432 19,855 26,289 4.3 5.4 4.2 5.6

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,994,761 2,095,141 1,987,029 2,086,786 114,401 117,636 103,493 102,096 5.7 5.6 5.2 4.9

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,963 57,000 54,812 57,136 3,796 3,797 3,539 3,258 6.9 6.7 6.5 5.7

Bend-Redmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,152 92,639 85,810 92,618 4,787 4,763 4,461 4,277 5.5 5.1 5.2 4.6

Corvallis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,023 45,722 44,583 46,063 2,017 2,277 1,864 1,961 4.6 5.0 4.2 4.3

Eugene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,614 178,004 170,483 178,318 10,714 10,967 9,568 9,575 6.3 6.2 5.6 5.4

Grants Pass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,379 35,032 33,628 34,992 2,644 2,587 2,350 2,233 7.9 7.4 7.0 6.4

Medford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,857 103,354 98,655 103,414 6,856 6,982 5,921 5,829 6.9 6.8 6.0 5.6

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. . . . . . . . . . 1,232,956 1,293,423 1,227,524 1,286,414 66,065 69,401 60,450 61,125 5.4 5.4 4.9 4.8

Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192,065 203,483 192,635 202,261 11,666 12,028 10,372 10,285 6.1 5.9 5.4 5.1

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,455,312 6,567,064 6,399,944 6,524,910 340,778 396,292 296,138 350,812 5.3 6.0 4.6 5.4

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . 430,898 437,335 429,578 434,169 22,778 26,363 20,047 24,184 5.3 6.0 4.7 5.6

Altoona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,909 63,454 61,150 62,515 3,072 3,606 2,630 3,134 5.0 5.7 4.3 5.0

Bloomsburg-Berwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,550 43,544 42,949 43,714 2,199 2,573 1,908 2,113 5.2 5.9 4.4 4.8

Chambersburg-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . 77,805 81,486 76,814 80,305 3,745 4,649 3,334 3,952 4.8 5.7 4.3 4.9

East Stroudsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,878 83,150 80,452 82,474 5,008 5,700 4,539 5,210 6.1 6.9 5.6 6.3

Erie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,581 137,146 134,639 137,169 7,217 9,672 6,187 8,780 5.3 7.1 4.6 6.4

Gettysburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,924 56,177 54,580 56,058 2,258 2,547 1,878 2,116 4.1 4.5 3.4 3.8

Harrisburg-Carlisle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298,354 304,671 292,736 297,567 12,907 15,300 11,093 13,580 4.3 5.0 3.8 4.6

Johnstown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,214 62,610 61,922 61,908 4,109 4,816 3,342 3,920 6.6 7.7 5.4 6.3

Lancaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279,930 283,456 275,271 279,534 11,761 13,541 9,747 11,514 4.2 4.8 3.5 4.1

Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,955 71,877 69,876 71,082 3,199 3,650 2,693 3,156 4.5 5.1 3.9 4.4

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. . . . . . . 3,061,052 3,120,982 3,043,035 3,106,201 166,336 177,929 149,006 162,487 5.4 5.7 4.9 5.2

Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,222,005 1,233,391 1,209,566 1,224,727 64,513 77,493 56,399 68,023 5.3 6.3 4.7 5.6

Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214,164 218,227 212,660 217,494 10,474 12,164 9,093 10,790 4.9 5.6 4.3 5.0

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton. . . . . . . 278,500 281,794 277,648 280,306 17,176 18,860 14,699 16,606 6.2 6.7 5.3 5.9

State College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,028 78,260 78,264 80,544 3,201 3,769 2,606 3,177 4.2 4.8 3.3 3.9

Williamsport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,909 60,470 60,488 59,466 3,484 4,204 3,318 3,748 5.7 7.0 5.5 6.3

York-Hanover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233,961 239,923 232,843 238,343 11,055 12,528 9,376 10,865 4.7 5.2 4.0 4.6

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559,819 563,749 552,889 554,536 32,704 32,647 28,470 28,300 5.8 5.8 5.1 5.1

Providence-Warwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685,039 691,645 677,744 680,730 39,584 38,159 35,466 32,921 5.8 5.5 5.2 4.8

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,271,319 2,318,324 2,251,834 2,297,294 135,084 127,215 127,250 111,899 5.9 5.5 5.7 4.9

Charleston-North Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . 364,895 374,161 360,798 372,477 18,730 17,649 17,898 15,595 5.1 4.7 5.0 4.2

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396,548 405,698 395,197 404,382 22,158 21,060 20,859 18,804 5.6 5.2 5.3 4.7

Florence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,370 96,339 95,124 95,136 6,491 5,873 6,078 5,219 6.8 6.1 6.4 5.5

Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin. . . . . . . . . . . 417,293 422,387 414,915 420,755 22,080 21,192 20,915 18,635 5.3 5.0 5.0 4.4

Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort. . . . 85,314 87,984 83,434 85,644 4,609 4,434 4,335 3,809 5.4 5.0 5.2 4.4

Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191,873 195,769 185,977 189,276 12,117 10,705 11,626 10,071 6.3 5.5 6.3 5.3

Spartanburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151,121 153,062 150,390 153,118 8,925 8,297 8,306 7,260 5.9 5.4 5.5 4.7

Sumter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,489 44,651 44,108 44,321 3,163 2,895 2,906 2,542 7.1 6.5 6.6 5.7

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456,845 460,063 449,835 452,736 13,171 12,199 12,049 10,962 2.9 2.7 2.7 2.4

Rapid City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,337 75,226 72,035 72,478 2,124 1,982 2,055 1,896 2.9 2.6 2.9 2.6

Sioux Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144,691 148,815 143,877 147,809 3,342 3,130 3,250 2,922 2.3 2.1 2.3 2.0

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,053,847 3,160,568 3,049,764 3,174,976 175,194 157,260 168,074 159,578 5.7 5.0 5.5 5.0

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254,940 260,695 253,553 262,279 14,293 13,385 13,518 13,596 5.6 5.1 5.3 5.2

Clarksville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,588 111,848 108,183 112,592 6,599 6,225 6,344 6,307 6.1 5.6 5.9 5.6

Cleveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,282 59,274 55,576 59,469 3,130 2,862 2,975 2,837 5.7 4.8 5.4 4.8

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,764 63,337 61,217 63,387 3,832 3,401 3,571 3,273 6.2 5.4 5.8 5.2

Johnson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,419 89,996 88,512 91,800 5,436 4,922 5,286 5,033 6.2 5.5 6.0 5.5

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

August September Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

August September August September

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

Tennessee - Continued

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136,580 138,982 136,727 139,764 7,815 7,276 7,515 7,431 5.7 5.2 5.5 5.3

Knoxville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403,351 417,760 404,073 422,233 21,432 19,601 20,607 19,965 5.3 4.7 5.1 4.7

Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614,016 623,981 611,394 624,751 39,204 34,153 37,985 34,706 6.4 5.5 6.2 5.6

Morristown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,991 51,116 49,213 51,577 3,091 2,730 2,993 2,755 6.3 5.3 6.1 5.3

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--

Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929,715 976,932 932,073 980,422 43,085 38,490 41,914 39,349 4.6 3.9 4.5 4.0

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,047,642 13,378,431 13,067,230 13,416,799 600,039 668,970 586,777 662,114 4.6 5.0 4.5 4.9

Abilene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,595 75,554 74,941 76,433 2,935 3,187 2,949 3,220 3.9 4.2 3.9 4.2

Amarillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,246 131,185 129,749 131,470 4,164 4,453 4,098 4,584 3.2 3.4 3.2 3.5

Austin-Round Rock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,069,615 1,108,817 1,072,494 1,108,949 36,233 38,713 35,918 39,139 3.4 3.5 3.3 3.5

Beaumont-Port Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174,689 177,825 175,208 178,740 12,189 13,256 11,736 12,926 7.0 7.5 6.7 7.2

Brownsville-Harlingen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163,740 169,239 162,921 167,969 11,672 12,881 11,045 12,577 7.1 7.6 6.8 7.5

College Station-Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,017 122,809 122,201 126,948 4,323 5,025 4,257 4,760 3.7 4.1 3.5 3.7

Corpus Christi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207,135 212,081 207,202 212,632 11,117 13,129 10,900 13,298 5.4 6.2 5.3 6.3

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . 3,595,425 3,727,133 3,595,184 3,738,736 147,508 152,983 144,353 151,857 4.1 4.1 4.0 4.1

El Paso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343,188 353,264 344,998 355,762 18,146 19,209 17,772 18,916 5.3 5.4 5.2 5.3

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land. . . 3,245,759 3,305,229 3,247,882 3,318,885 157,775 191,040 154,954 190,365 4.9 5.8 4.8 5.7

Killeen-Temple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169,922 174,137 170,861 174,401 7,937 8,343 7,937 8,446 4.7 4.8 4.6 4.8

Laredo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,617 115,894 112,394 116,205 5,497 5,994 5,298 5,770 4.9 5.2 4.7 5.0

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,045 102,427 99,978 102,426 5,372 6,980 5,281 6,820 5.4 6.8 5.3 6.7

Lubbock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,517 157,272 154,224 157,172 5,486 5,918 5,309 5,689 3.6 3.8 3.4 3.6

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . 328,511 337,875 328,693 338,694 27,110 28,286 25,313 26,936 8.3 8.4 7.7 8.0

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,470 90,098 89,072 90,165 3,274 4,149 3,285 4,070 3.7 4.6 3.7 4.5

Odessa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,471 79,181 78,315 79,129 3,889 5,368 3,986 5,200 5.0 6.8 5.1 6.6

San Angelo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,795 56,528 54,869 56,551 2,327 2,660 2,287 2,591 4.2 4.7 4.2 4.6

San Antonio-New Braunfels. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,097,952 1,124,123 1,100,847 1,130,713 42,453 46,053 42,110 45,885 3.9 4.1 3.8 4.1

Sherman-Denison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,700 61,942 60,210 61,558 2,555 2,460 2,380 2,450 4.2 4.0 4.0 4.0

Texarkana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,458 64,894 64,881 65,519 3,185 3,280 3,081 3,214 4.9 5.1 4.7 4.9

Tyler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,436 105,904 102,834 105,357 4,807 5,422 4,686 5,266 4.6 5.1 4.6 5.0

Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,226 51,000 49,197 51,070 2,153 2,894 2,168 2,826 4.4 5.7 4.4 5.5

Waco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,588 122,541 119,500 122,806 5,020 5,357 4,874 5,301 4.2 4.4 4.1 4.3

Wichita Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,476 64,845 64,385 64,670 2,792 2,983 2,873 2,963 4.3 4.6 4.5 4.6

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,474,361 1,504,559 1,469,003 1,503,152 54,485 51,211 47,280 44,013 3.7 3.4 3.2 2.9

Logan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,074 66,750 67,340 68,893 2,114 2,013 1,870 1,738 3.2 3.0 2.8 2.5

Ogden-Clearfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310,594 318,516 307,045 316,340 11,795 10,723 10,295 9,330 3.8 3.4 3.4 2.9

Provo-Orem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272,533 279,495 275,260 281,192 9,370 8,695 8,066 7,648 3.4 3.1 2.9 2.7

St. George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,354 67,519 64,371 67,555 2,569 2,373 2,277 2,071 4.0 3.5 3.5 3.1

Salt Lake City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621,517 631,911 617,859 630,576 21,577 20,373 18,775 17,509 3.5 3.2 3.0 2.8

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346,908 348,741 343,470 343,210 12,436 11,479 12,767 11,821 3.6 3.3 3.7 3.4

Burlington-South Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . 125,927 127,175 125,174 125,957 3,809 3,551 3,878 3,691 3.0 2.8 3.1 2.9

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,230,497 4,229,385 4,203,877 4,219,409 184,049 172,701 174,284 169,907 4.4 4.1 4.1 4.0

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford. . . . . 89,974 90,482 92,016 91,653 4,088 5,389 3,804 4,099 4.5 6.0 4.1 4.5

Charlottesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,641 114,771 116,097 118,034 4,433 4,115 4,149 4,067 3.9 3.6 3.6 3.4

Harrisonburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,652 61,659 63,686 63,301 2,828 2,584 2,614 2,533 4.5 4.2 4.1 4.0

Lynchburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,272 121,188 122,015 120,359 5,922 5,670 5,475 5,428 4.8 4.7 4.5 4.5

Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659,672 669,249 656,043 666,283 30,461 27,733 28,594 27,511 4.6 4.1 4.4 4.1

Roanoke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158,082 157,516 157,417 157,134 6,895 6,307 6,448 6,240 4.4 4.0 4.1 4.0

Staunton-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,520 57,118 58,283 57,142 2,379 2,157 2,309 2,257 4.1 3.8 4.0 3.9

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News. . . 843,320 835,358 830,561 826,978 40,493 38,786 38,098 38,040 4.8 4.6 4.6 4.6

Winchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,282 70,254 68,966 70,268 2,777 2,523 2,642 2,504 4.0 3.6 3.8 3.6

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,543,814 3,644,364 3,539,460 3,662,682 191,714 196,270 184,904 186,395 5.4 5.4 5.2 5.1

Bellingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,023 103,389 100,524 102,835 5,879 6,523 5,585 6,031 5.8 6.3 5.6 5.9

Bremerton-Silverdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,551 117,083 113,828 116,326 5,907 6,927 5,711 6,585 5.2 5.9 5.0 5.7

Kennewick-Richland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,927 136,084 130,984 135,792 7,981 8,869 7,257 7,977 6.0 6.5 5.5 5.9

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,783 45,402 43,774 45,626 3,215 3,434 3,100 3,228 7.3 7.6 7.1 7.1

Mount Vernon-Anacortes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,236 59,152 56,382 58,351 3,592 3,945 3,408 3,661 6.3 6.7 6.0 6.3

Olympia-Tumwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,865 127,374 124,160 127,263 7,041 7,485 6,717 7,221 5.7 5.9 5.4 5.7

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,968,767 2,031,350 1,968,332 2,047,363 96,095 91,428 96,163 90,838 4.9 4.5 4.9 4.4

Spokane-Spokane Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245,416 254,821 246,495 255,921 15,221 16,451 14,509 15,099 6.2 6.5 5.9 5.9

Walla Walla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,225 29,434 29,242 29,568 1,545 1,664 1,453 1,533 5.3 5.7 5.0 5.2

Wenatchee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,483 67,238 65,442 67,509 3,200 3,741 2,801 3,236 4.9 5.6 4.3 4.8

Yakima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,227 129,142 128,583 132,361 8,621 9,490 7,043 7,572 6.7 7.3 5.5 5.7

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788,180 793,450 784,441 794,373 52,939 45,587 45,979 42,067 6.7 5.7 5.9 5.3

Beckley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,025 47,223 47,000 47,032 3,565 3,072 3,137 2,897 7.4 6.5 6.7 6.2

Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,434 99,128 97,999 98,450 6,376 5,587 5,619 5,272 6.4 5.6 5.7 5.4

Huntington-Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147,235 149,636 146,873 149,865 9,124 9,106 8,378 8,640 6.2 6.1 5.7 5.8

Morgantown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,564 66,101 66,132 67,944 3,514 3,075 2,889 2,726 5.4 4.7 4.4 4.0

Parkersburg-Vienna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,897 39,637 39,581 39,486 2,563 2,296 2,303 2,044 6.4 5.8 5.8 5.2

Wheeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,194 66,093 65,574 65,378 4,219 4,055 3,883 3,962 6.4 6.1 5.9 6.1

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,107,464 3,165,476 3,090,716 3,135,925 131,590 126,473 122,240 109,285 4.2 4.0 4.0 3.5

Appleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,012 132,955 128,539 130,373 4,603 4,634 4,273 3,916 3.5 3.5 3.3 3.0

Eau Claire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,557 92,890 91,295 92,662 3,411 3,228 3,154 2,752 3.8 3.5 3.5 3.0

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

August September Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

August September August September

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

Wisconsin - Continued

Fond du Lac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,384 58,667 57,244 57,701 2,207 2,116 1,948 1,657 3.8 3.6 3.4 2.9

Green Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171,602 175,518 170,369 173,661 6,509 6,371 6,147 5,543 3.8 3.6 3.6 3.2

Janesville-Beloit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,307 87,719 83,652 86,928 4,045 3,792 3,799 3,386 4.8 4.3 4.5 3.9

La Crosse-Onalaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,844 77,306 76,852 78,247 2,709 2,809 2,529 2,360 3.6 3.6 3.3 3.0

Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377,676 383,218 376,579 383,105 11,458 10,850 11,293 9,967 3.0 2.8 3.0 2.6

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis. . . . . . . 830,309 840,764 821,479 828,800 40,558 39,117 36,855 33,444 4.9 4.7 4.5 4.0

Oshkosh-Neenah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,417 93,126 91,051 91,688 3,721 3,439 3,387 2,939 4.1 3.7 3.7 3.2

Racine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,361 101,385 98,777 99,508 5,454 5,353 4,913 4,420 5.4 5.3 5.0 4.4

Sheboygan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,337 63,283 61,234 62,626 2,109 2,079 2,041 1,884 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.0

Wausau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,579 75,662 73,049 74,366 2,780 2,560 2,548 2,259 3.8 3.4 3.5 3.0

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308,384 301,724 305,097 300,970 11,628 14,697 11,235 13,975 3.8 4.9 3.7 4.6

Casper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,054 40,656 41,952 40,591 2,003 2,784 1,974 2,690 4.8 6.8 4.7 6.6

Cheyenne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,804 47,093 48,148 46,891 1,733 1,898 1,684 1,748 3.6 4.0 3.5 3.7

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,119,037 1,121,107 1,129,581 1,129,793 138,885 135,875 137,518 147,595 12.4 12.1 12.2 13.1

Aguadilla-Isabela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,779 90,221 88,311 90,228 13,629 13,759 13,205 14,841 15.5 15.3 15.0 16.4

Arecibo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,292 52,219 52,767 52,579 7,535 7,262 7,226 7,843 14.4 13.9 13.7 14.9

Guayama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,173 22,259 22,457 22,465 4,163 4,091 4,056 4,385 18.8 18.4 18.1 19.5

Mayaguez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,194 29,401 29,227 29,767 4,044 4,151 3,867 4,512 13.9 14.1 13.2 15.2

Ponce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,138 97,776 99,385 98,588 15,911 15,318 16,354 16,580 16.2 15.7 16.5 16.8

San German. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,345 36,252 36,631 36,652 5,202 5,511 5,014 6,033 14.3 15.2 13.7 16.5

San Juan-Carolina-Caguas. . . . . . . . . . . . 748,392 747,088 755,668 753,572 79,875 77,599 78,961 84,291 10.7 10.4 10.4 11.2

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

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

p Preliminary

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

Management and Budget Bulletin No. 13-01, dated February 28, 2013, and are available on the BLS website at 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

August September Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

August September August September

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,998,452 19,357,124 18,917,335 19,437,451 1,159,388 1,076,360 1,063,374 1,029,134 6.1 5.6 5.6 5.3

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . 6,590,007 6,740,545 6,579,482 6,786,622 408,358 341,791 375,151 334,842 6.2 5.1 5.7 4.9

Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine. . . . . . . . . 1,594,025 1,624,625 1,591,935 1,636,431 72,546 70,570 66,497 66,366 4.6 4.3 4.2 4.1

Los Angeles-Long

Beach-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,995,982 5,115,920 4,987,547 5,150,191 335,812 271,221 308,654 268,476 6.7 5.3 6.2 5.2

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . 2,518,378 2,567,798 2,506,056 2,575,626 107,649 104,918 98,103 99,072 4.3 4.1 3.9 3.8

Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley. . . . . . . . 1,378,977 1,404,775 1,371,131 1,408,682 67,463 65,544 61,281 61,658 4.9 4.7 4.5 4.4

San Francisco-Redwood City-South

San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997,006 1,017,251 994,056 1,021,823 35,085 34,333 32,184 32,652 3.5 3.4 3.2 3.2

San Rafael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,395 145,772 140,869 145,121 5,101 5,041 4,638 4,762 3.6 3.5 3.3 3.3

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389,855 390,102 387,821 389,711 27,026 25,430 26,332 25,401 6.9 6.5 6.8 6.5

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . 3,284,427 3,298,995 3,269,076 3,293,425 144,762 130,588 140,951 126,886 4.4 4.0 4.3 3.9

Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville3.. . 679,721 682,349 676,212 679,635 27,120 23,766 27,504 22,396 4.0 3.5 4.1 3.3

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2.. . 2,604,706 2,616,646 2,592,864 2,613,790 117,642 106,822 113,447 104,490 4.5 4.1 4.4 4.0

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,691,397 9,777,323 9,696,612 9,867,408 544,540 482,596 513,732 489,607 5.6 4.9 5.3 5.0

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,020,850 3,026,031 3,017,107 3,047,811 175,303 155,421 166,701 156,440 5.8 5.1 5.5 5.1

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano

Beach-Deerfield Beach. . . . . . . . . 995,777 1,014,225 996,865 1,025,412 51,715 46,313 48,915 46,755 5.2 4.6 4.9 4.6

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall. . . . . . . 1,331,563 1,311,819 1,325,898 1,318,473 85,783 73,559 81,929 73,513 6.4 5.6 6.2 5.6

West Palm Beach-Boca

Raton-Delray Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . 693,510 699,987 694,344 703,926 37,805 35,549 35,857 36,172 5.5 5.1 5.2 5.1

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,522,271 6,611,275 6,485,397 6,565,918 376,499 362,988 345,322 355,825 5.8 5.5 5.3 5.4

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin2. . . . . . . . . . . 4,903,515 4,979,108 4,855,965 4,935,853 275,346 269,282 248,215 257,296 5.6 5.4 5.1 5.2

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington

Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,781,450 3,831,487 3,738,481 3,798,067 213,271 208,394 190,723 198,428 5.6 5.4 5.1 5.2

Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323,790 329,277 323,477 326,298 18,184 16,749 17,065 16,880 5.6 5.1 5.3 5.2

Gary3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336,179 348,590 335,345 347,415 20,331 21,446 18,293 19,545 6.0 6.2 5.5 5.6

Lake County-Kenosha County2. . . . 462,096 469,754 458,662 464,073 23,560 22,693 22,134 22,443 5.1 4.8 4.8 4.8

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,604,196 3,670,080 3,542,718 3,589,634 170,815 139,752 172,206 118,722 4.7 3.8 4.9 3.3

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua2. . . . . . . . . 2,642,428 2,696,473 2,604,584 2,643,213 114,888 95,422 116,168 81,415 4.3 3.5 4.5 3.1

Boston-Cambridge-Newton. . . . . . . . 1,565,520 1,598,855 1,541,034 1,564,954 64,593 53,373 66,079 45,492 4.1 3.3 4.3 2.9

Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton. . . . . . 105,056 106,674 104,009 105,259 5,792 4,791 5,765 4,014 5.5 4.5 5.5 3.8

Framingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,982 158,331 153,025 155,243 5,996 5,025 6,030 4,261 3.8 3.2 3.9 2.7

Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury

Town2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,478 117,144 111,800 114,529 4,884 4,052 4,844 3,488 4.3 3.5 4.3 3.0

Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem2.. . 96,156 96,491 94,746 94,412 6,157 4,899 6,263 4,289 6.4 5.1 6.6 4.5

Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford2. . . . . . . 183,989 187,000 181,065 183,193 8,978 7,476 8,943 6,317 4.9 4.0 4.9 3.4

Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead. . . . . . . . . 83,348 84,903 82,425 83,047 4,028 3,263 4,154 2,866 4.8 3.8 5.0 3.5

Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166,949 171,027 165,912 169,469 6,058 5,635 5,657 4,890 3.6 3.3 3.4 2.9

Peabody-Salem-Beverly. . . . . . . . . . . 89,518 91,892 89,053 90,109 4,003 3,277 4,107 2,802 4.5 3.6 4.6 3.1

Taunton-Middleborough-Norton. . . . 82,432 84,156 81,515 82,998 4,399 3,631 4,326 2,996 5.3 4.3 5.3 3.6

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,763,471 4,864,276 4,723,231 4,856,760 247,250 240,708 216,640 214,281 5.2 4.9 4.6 4.4

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,019,229 2,088,485 1,997,382 2,088,620 129,099 125,900 112,407 112,415 6.4 6.0 5.6 5.4

Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . 759,556 782,114 749,291 783,527 58,114 57,336 50,000 51,090 7.7 7.3 6.7 6.5

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills. . . . . . 1,259,673 1,306,371 1,248,091 1,305,092 70,985 68,564 62,408 61,325 5.6 5.2 5.0 4.7

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,721,758 9,655,805 9,602,631 9,630,584 482,807 474,681 458,211 487,062 5.0 4.9 4.8 5.1

New York-Newark-Jersey City2. . . . . . 10,102,993 10,085,062 9,980,321 10,042,593 508,097 519,715 476,314 519,217 5.0 5.2 4.8 5.2

Dutchess County-Putnam County.. . 196,282 197,467 192,845 194,850 8,409 7,804 8,417 8,187 4.3 4.0 4.4 4.2

Nassau County-Suffolk County. . . . . 1,492,903 1,493,722 1,464,135 1,475,868 66,564 60,730 63,527 61,718 4.5 4.1 4.3 4.2

Newark3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,259,469 1,267,429 1,246,478 1,257,904 65,818 68,139 62,528 65,887 5.2 5.4 5.0 5.2

New York-Jersey City-White

Plains2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,154,339 7,126,444 7,076,863 7,113,971 367,306 383,042 341,842 383,425 5.1 5.4 4.8 5.4

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,455,312 6,567,064 6,399,944 6,524,910 340,778 396,292 296,138 350,812 5.3 6.0 4.6 5.4

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington2. . . . 3,061,052 3,120,982 3,043,035 3,106,201 166,336 177,929 149,006 162,487 5.4 5.7 4.9 5.2

Camden3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634,764 643,372 632,683 639,445 35,351 35,731 33,351 34,210 5.6 5.6 5.3 5.3

Montgomery County-Bucks

County-Chester County. . . . . . . . . 1,064,882 1,086,623 1,051,268 1,076,982 46,026 52,430 39,302 46,281 4.3 4.8 3.7 4.3

Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 985,251 1,011,386 984,583 1,012,036 64,791 71,522 57,449 65,067 6.6 7.1 5.8 6.4

Wilmington3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376,155 379,601 374,501 377,738 20,168 18,246 18,904 16,929 5.4 4.8 5.0 4.5

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,047,642 13,378,431 13,067,230 13,416,799 600,039 668,970 586,777 662,114 4.6 5.0 4.5 4.9

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . 3,595,425 3,727,133 3,595,184 3,738,736 147,508 152,983 144,353 151,857 4.1 4.1 4.0 4.1

Dallas-Plano-Irving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,409,668 2,512,318 2,409,776 2,518,595 96,718 100,782 94,712 100,445 4.0 4.0 3.9 4.0

Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,185,757 1,214,815 1,185,408 1,220,141 50,790 52,201 49,641 51,412 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.2

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,543,814 3,644,364 3,539,460 3,662,682 191,714 196,270 184,904 186,395 5.4 5.4 5.2 5.1

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,968,767 2,031,350 1,968,332 2,047,363 96,095 91,428 96,163 90,838 4.9 4.5 4.9 4.4

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett. . . . . . . . . . . 1,580,835 1,629,344 1,579,726 1,644,505 72,311 65,420 73,667 66,542 4.6 4.0 4.7 4.0

Tacoma-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387,932 402,006 388,606 402,858 23,784 26,008 22,496 24,296 6.1 6.5 5.8 6.0

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. 13-01, dated February 28, 2013, and are available on the BLS website at

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, N.J., are totally outside the states under which their metropolitan areas are listed. For Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va., 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

[In thousands]

State and area

August September

Change from

September 2015 to September

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,951.2 1,969.6 1,951.9 1,969.9 18.0 0.9

Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.4 46.4 45.9 46.4 0.5 1.1

Auburn-Opelika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 63.2 61.6 63.7 2.1 3.4

Birmingham-Hoover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516.9 522.0 515.9 521.2 5.3 1.0

Daphne-Fairhope-Foley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.8 74.1 70.4 72.5 2.1 3.0

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.7 54.0 53.7 54.2 0.5 0.9

Dothan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.2 57.3 57.0 57.0 0.0 0.0

Florence-Muscle Shoals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.1 56.8 56.3 56.7 0.4 0.7

Gadsden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.6 38.0 37.9 37.8 -0.1 -0.3

Huntsville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220.4 221.9 221.2 223.6 2.4 1.1

Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176.5 177.7 176.5 178.1 1.6 0.9

Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170.1 172.4 169.9 172.3 2.4 1.4

Tuscaloosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.0 106.2 105.8 107.8 2.0 1.9

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360.3 360.2 351.8 348.4 -3.4 -1.0

Anchorage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.1 184.5 185.2 183.5 -1.7 -0.9

Fairbanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.6 39.8 39.9 39.5 -0.4 -1.0

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,617.4 2,675.5 2,646.4 2,708.2 61.8 2.3

Flagstaff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.1 65.7 67.5 68.1 0.6 0.9

Lake Havasu City-Kingman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.7 47.8 47.4 47.3 -0.1 -0.2

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,903.2 1,947.8 1,920.8 1,968.4 47.6 2.5

Prescott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.1 65.1 61.9 65.7 3.8 6.1

Sierra Vista-Douglas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.9 34.2 34.0 34.1 0.1 0.3

Tucson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361.5 369.6 369.6 377.2 7.6 2.1

Yuma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.8 52.7 52.3 53.4 1.1 2.1

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,203.1 1,220.1 1,221.4 1,235.6 14.2 1.2

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234.3 241.7 239.7 244.5 4.8 2.0

Fort Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.4 113.2 113.8 114.0 0.2 0.2

Hot Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.7 38.3 37.7 38.4 0.7 1.9

Jonesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.1 55.9 55.1 57.0 1.9 3.4

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350.6 355.0 353.3 355.6 2.3 0.7

Pine Bluff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.4 32.9 33.8 33.2 -0.6 -1.8

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,095.2 16,435.8 16,151.0 16,513.5 362.5 2.2

Bakersfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256.5 260.1 257.3 261.5 4.2 1.6

Chico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.5 79.1 77.6 79.9 2.3 3.0

El Centro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.7 52.8 51.0 53.2 2.2 4.3

Fresno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324.0 332.6 327.8 336.2 8.4 2.6

Hanford-Corcoran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.9 38.9 39.8 38.9 -0.9 -2.3

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,803.7 5,921.6 5,840.9 5,954.5 113.6 1.9

Madera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.7 38.2 36.5 38.7 2.2 6.0

Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.8 64.9 66.2 67.2 1.0 1.5

Modesto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171.1 175.6 170.2 174.9 4.7 2.8

Napa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.9 73.9 72.7 74.8 2.1 2.9

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292.9 295.3 294.0 297.5 3.5 1.2

Redding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.4 64.4 64.4 64.4 0.0 0.0

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,345.0 1,374.5 1,349.7 1,381.1 31.4 2.3

Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920.9 942.9 921.5 948.5 27.0 2.9

Salinas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.3 135.1 136.7 135.8 -0.9 -0.7

San Diego-Carlsbad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,395.0 1,419.0 1,392.1 1,423.0 30.9 2.2

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,275.6 2,331.1 2,277.7 2,337.4 59.7 2.6

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,049.6 1,084.7 1,049.0 1,087.1 38.1 3.6

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.7 114.6 113.6 116.5 2.9 2.6

Santa Cruz-Watsonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.7 100.9 97.0 99.6 2.6 2.7

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.5 183.7 180.1 184.0 3.9 2.2

Santa Rosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198.6 202.3 199.7 204.6 4.9 2.5

Stockton-Lodi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222.1 228.4 223.5 227.3 3.8 1.7

Vallejo-Fairfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.8 135.7 133.4 136.8 3.4 2.5

Visalia-Porterville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.0 121.6 119.3 121.7 2.4 2.0

Yuba City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.0 42.3 42.1 41.7 -0.4 -1.0

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,555.3 2,630.2 2,558.0 2,626.5 68.5 2.7

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area — Continued

[In thousands]

State and area

August September

Change from

September 2015 to September

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

Colorado - Continued

Boulder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178.9 184.6 182.9 188.2 5.3 2.9

Colorado Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.4 278.1 275.6 279.4 3.8 1.4

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,409.6 1,456.9 1,409.2 1,455.7 46.5 3.3

Fort Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156.7 160.8 158.1 162.8 4.7 3.0

Grand Junction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.7 62.0 62.3 63.0 0.7 1.1

Greeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.1 102.7 100.6 103.7 3.1 3.1

Pueblo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.0 61.5 61.2 62.6 1.4 2.3

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,664.7 1,682.0 1,674.0 1,683.8 9.8 0.6

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409.9 417.4 409.1 415.2 6.1 1.5

Danbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.7 78.0 77.9 78.8 0.9 1.2

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560.9 567.4 570.7 575.2 4.5 0.8

New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.2 278.3 281.2 283.0 1.8 0.6

Norwich-New London-Westerly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.7 130.0 129.7 129.0 -0.7 -0.5

Waterbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.9 66.5 66.5 67.1 0.6 0.9

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451.1 462.5 450.9 462.3 11.4 2.5

Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.3 69.2 68.3 70.3 2.0 2.9

Salisbury1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164.9 174.3 159.8 165.3 5.5 3.4

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759.1 772.7 766.6 780.4 13.8 1.8

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,168.8 3,243.1 3,180.9 3,257.0 76.1 2.4

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,086.6 8,341.4 8,100.7 8,377.6 276.9 3.4

Cape Coral-Fort Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.0 250.5 243.5 251.6 8.1 3.3

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109.8 110.4 107.4 108.5 1.1 1.0

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187.6 196.7 188.1 197.2 9.1 4.8

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.3 133.8 136.9 138.9 2.0 1.5

Homosassa Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.5 32.8 32.6 32.9 0.3 0.9

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649.8 674.8 650.9 681.1 30.2 4.6

Lakeland-Winter Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208.1 210.9 208.6 211.6 3.0 1.4

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,499.0 2,558.9 2,507.1 2,568.9 61.8 2.5

Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.1 136.2 131.8 136.0 4.2 3.2

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.6 288.8 281.6 288.7 7.1 2.5

Ocala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.6 98.9 97.7 99.2 1.5 1.5

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,161.2 1,214.0 1,162.9 1,218.1 55.2 4.7

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.1 204.0 201.5 205.5 4.0 2.0

Panama City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.7 84.2 82.6 83.4 0.8 1.0

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169.2 170.7 168.2 171.8 3.6 2.1

Port St. Lucie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.1 139.6 136.9 140.2 3.3 2.4

Punta Gorda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.2 46.4 45.0 46.4 1.4 3.1

Sebastian-Vero Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.9 49.0 47.9 49.0 1.1 2.3

Sebring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.2 25.0 24.5 25.3 0.8 3.3

Tallahassee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170.3 172.4 173.9 176.7 2.8 1.6

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,249.4 1,287.7 1,251.6 1,282.4 30.8 2.5

The Villages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.1 26.9 26.1 27.0 0.9 3.4

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,281.9 4,387.5 4,284.1 4,393.3 109.2 2.5

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.8 61.7 61.3 63.0 1.7 2.8

Athens-Clarke County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.3 95.4 92.7 96.4 3.7 4.0

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,596.8 2,667.4 2,592.6 2,667.4 74.8 2.9

Augusta-Richmond County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227.7 230.3 228.1 229.8 1.7 0.7

Brunswick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.6 43.6 42.4 43.3 0.9 2.1

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121.6 122.7 120.9 122.9 2.0 1.7

Dalton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.0 68.3 68.5 68.4 -0.1 -0.1

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.6 87.6 84.8 86.6 1.8 2.1

Hinesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.6 19.8 19.7 19.7 0.0 0.0

Macon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.3 104.3 102.5 104.2 1.7 1.7

Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.0 40.8 40.1 40.9 0.8 2.0

Savannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.8 179.6 172.9 179.7 6.8 3.9

Valdosta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.0 56.0 55.3 56.0 0.7 1.3

Warner Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.6 71.0 70.7 70.7 0.0 0.0

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632.5 647.6 635.5 651.6 16.1 2.5

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area — Continued

[In thousands]

State and area

August September

Change from

September 2015 to September

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

Hawaii - Continued

Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.2 75.6 73.2 75.1 1.9 2.6

Urban Honolulu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464.2 473.3 466.7 478.7 12.0 2.6

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677.1 698.6 683.0 704.3 21.3 3.1

Boise City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292.9 303.7 295.8 305.9 10.1 3.4

Coeur d’Alene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.3 63.4 61.0 63.6 2.6 4.3

Idaho Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.0 64.5 63.1 63.6 0.5 0.8

Lewiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.4 28.6 27.9 29.0 1.1 3.9

Pocatello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.5 35.1 35.6 35.9 0.3 0.8

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,985.6 6,023.2 6,008.9 6,051.6 42.7 0.7

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.3 91.9 96.0 93.7 -2.3 -2.4

Carbondale-Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.0 55.6 58.5 56.5 -2.0 -3.4

Champaign-Urbana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.2 104.9 110.4 112.1 1.7 1.5

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,619.3 4,677.3 4,620.8 4,676.3 55.5 1.2

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.1 28.9 29.4 29.2 -0.2 -0.7

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.4 180.1 184.3 180.0 -4.3 -2.3

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.7 50.9 52.0 51.5 -0.5 -1.0

Kankakee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.5 45.0 45.4 45.5 0.1 0.2

Peoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179.5 177.3 179.0 176.7 -2.3 -1.3

Rockford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.4 155.6 153.3 155.9 2.6 1.7

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.5 118.1 114.5 115.6 1.1 1.0

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,043.8 3,079.8 3,068.7 3,113.0 44.3 1.4

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.0 72.6 76.2 75.4 -0.8 -1.0

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.2 53.4 52.1 53.2 1.1 2.1

Elkhart-Goshen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.6 126.1 128.8 126.5 -2.3 -1.8

Evansville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157.6 155.9 158.3 157.0 -1.3 -0.8

Fort Wayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219.0 224.0 220.7 225.8 5.1 2.3

Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,028.3 1,045.5 1,027.1 1,050.9 23.8 2.3

Kokomo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.8 41.3 40.8 41.1 0.3 0.7

Lafayette-West Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.6 100.4 103.1 105.9 2.8 2.7

Michigan City-La Porte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.2 41.1 42.4 41.8 -0.6 -1.4

Muncie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.5 50.4 52.5 52.1 -0.4 -0.8

South Bend-Mishawaka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.7 139.3 141.8 142.2 0.4 0.3

Terre Haute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.1 70.2 70.8 71.5 0.7 1.0

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,554.5 1,580.3 1,567.9 1,591.3 23.4 1.5

Ames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.6 50.3 54.5 55.1 0.6 1.1

Cedar Rapids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.8 143.8 143.0 144.7 1.7 1.2

Des Moines-West Des Moines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352.7 356.9 350.0 354.4 4.4 1.3

Dubuque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.9 60.0 60.4 60.9 0.5 0.8

Iowa City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.3 100.7 99.4 101.7 2.3 2.3

Sioux City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.1 88.3 89.1 87.6 -1.5 -1.7

Waterloo-Cedar Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.5 88.9 91.3 90.6 -0.7 -0.8

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,387.3 1,383.1 1,404.9 1,400.8 -4.1 -0.3

Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.8 49.3 54.3 54.6 0.3 0.6

Manhattan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.0 40.7 46.9 46.2 -0.7 -1.5

Topeka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.0 110.8 111.5 111.2 -0.3 -0.3

Wichita. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292.7 297.2 295.7 298.6 2.9 1.0

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,887.5 1,908.4 1,895.9 1,919.2 23.3 1.2

Bowling Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.1 73.2 73.2 74.6 1.4 1.9

Elizabethtown-Fort Knox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.2 58.2 56.5 58.4 1.9 3.4

Lexington-Fayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270.3 272.1 273.3 274.4 1.1 0.4

Louisville/Jefferson County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646.6 661.1 647.8 662.3 14.5 2.2

Owensboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.8 54.0 52.9 54.4 1.5 2.8

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,980.8 1,962.9 1,983.2 1,968.8 -14.4 -0.7

Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.7 63.5 63.7 63.6 -0.1 -0.2

Baton Rouge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404.8 411.9 406.2 415.8 9.6 2.4

Hammond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.7 43.7 44.0 44.4 0.4 0.9

Houma-Thibodaux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.6 93.3 96.0 92.6 -3.4 -3.5

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area — Continued

[In thousands]

State and area

August September

Change from

September 2015 to September

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

Louisiana - Continued

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.9 205.3 212.9 205.7 -7.2 -3.4

Lake Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.5 105.3 102.3 105.4 3.1 3.0

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.2 78.8 78.7 79.3 0.6 0.8

New Orleans-Metairie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571.1 570.4 569.7 569.7 0.0 0.0

Shreveport-Bossier City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183.6 182.8 182.8 181.9 -0.9 -0.5

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626.3 631.4 623.5 624.9 1.4 0.2

Bangor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.5 65.5 66.9 67.1 0.2 0.3

Lewiston-Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.0 50.6 50.6 51.7 1.1 2.2

Portland-South Portland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203.0 207.3 201.2 204.4 3.2 1.6

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,668.9 2,714.5 2,672.7 2,714.4 41.7 1.6

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,369.1 1,397.5 1,370.6 1,399.8 29.2 2.1

California-Lexington Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.4 44.8 44.5 44.9 0.4 0.9

Cumberland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.1 38.5 39.0 39.0 0.0 0.0

Hagerstown-Martinsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.6 106.3 105.1 105.7 0.6 0.6

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,514.5 3,593.4 3,514.0 3,592.0 78.0 2.2

Barnstable Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.6 120.6 109.1 110.3 1.2 1.1

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,657.3 2,713.0 2,657.5 2,707.1 49.6 1.9

Leominster-Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.2 51.3 51.0 51.9 0.9 1.8

New Bedford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.4 67.2 67.2 67.3 0.1 0.1

Pittsfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.8 44.4 42.3 43.2 0.9 2.1

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324.0 329.4 328.5 334.2 5.7 1.7

Worcester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276.2 281.8 279.0 285.1 6.1 2.2

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,237.2 4,329.3 4,273.5 4,358.6 85.1 2.0

Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207.8 216.5 210.7 224.6 13.9 6.6

Battle Creek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.4 59.6 59.0 59.7 0.7 1.2

Bay City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.2 36.3 36.8 36.6 -0.2 -0.5

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,940.2 1,980.2 1,946.0 1,985.6 39.6 2.0

Flint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137.6 138.8 138.8 141.1 2.3 1.7

Grand Rapids-Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523.1 539.8 532.6 544.1 11.5 2.2

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.1 54.9 56.0 54.5 -1.5 -2.7

Kalamazoo-Portage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.6 146.1 143.5 149.2 5.7 4.0

Lansing-East Lansing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218.8 224.8 228.1 233.3 5.2 2.3

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.9 38.2 38.3 38.5 0.2 0.5

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.8 42.9 43.2 43.9 0.7 1.6

Muskegon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.5 66.3 63.9 66.4 2.5 3.9

Niles-Benton Harbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.7 64.0 62.7 64.1 1.4 2.2

Saginaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.1 90.0 89.0 91.6 2.6 2.9

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,883.9 2,926.8 2,875.5 2,916.7 41.2 1.4

Duluth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.0 134.7 134.2 134.7 0.5 0.4

Mankato-North Mankato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.8 55.3 56.1 55.9 -0.2 -0.4

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,946.3 1,981.3 1,942.4 1,980.5 38.1 2.0

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.0 121.8 117.0 121.1 4.1 3.5

St. Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107.6 110.6 108.3 111.2 2.9 2.7

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,131.7 1,141.6 1,140.7 1,146.1 5.4 0.5

Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153.6 152.6 153.8 153.0 -0.8 -0.5

Hattiesburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 62.2 62.8 64.0 1.2 1.9

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273.8 277.3 275.4 277.7 2.3 0.8

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,783.4 2,807.1 2,804.6 2,840.3 35.7 1.3

Cape Girardeau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.5 43.1 44.3 44.2 -0.1 -0.2

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.5 98.4 100.3 102.5 2.2 2.2

Jefferson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.6 76.3 76.4 76.9 0.5 0.7

Joplin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.2 78.5 81.2 80.2 -1.0 -1.2

Kansas City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,042.9 1,055.9 1,048.7 1,058.8 10.1 1.0

St. Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.9 62.4 62.3 62.7 0.4 0.6

St. Louis2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,346.6 1,373.8 1,355.1 1,390.3 35.2 2.6

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204.0 208.4 208.4 213.2 4.8 2.3

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469.2 469.9 467.9 469.7 1.8 0.4

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area — Continued

[In thousands]

State and area

August September

Change from

September 2015 to September

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

Montana - Continued

Billings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.2 85.6 85.3 86.3 1.0 1.2

Great Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.9 35.8 36.2 36.4 0.2 0.6

Missoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.6 59.4 60.9 61.7 0.8 1.3

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,008.0 1,015.2 1,010.4 1,018.9 8.5 0.8

Grand Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.8 42.6 42.4 42.6 0.2 0.5

Lincoln. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.0 186.5 187.0 189.2 2.2 1.2

Omaha-Council Bluffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493.9 498.9 492.0 498.0 6.0 1.2

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,260.4 1,297.3 1,269.8 1,302.8 33.0 2.6

Carson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.0 28.4 28.2 28.3 0.1 0.4

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918.0 942.5 923.8 944.7 20.9 2.3

Reno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210.7 222.1 215.1 224.9 9.8 4.6

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659.5 674.4 661.1 673.5 12.4 1.9

Dover-Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.9 51.6 52.4 52.7 0.3 0.6

Manchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.1 109.9 108.7 113.4 4.7 4.3

Portsmouth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.2 94.4 91.9 93.0 1.1 1.2

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,024.5 4,091.8 4,044.2 4,092.9 48.7 1.2

Atlantic City-Hammonton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.9 133.1 131.7 131.0 -0.7 -0.5

Ocean City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.4 58.5 49.2 50.7 1.5 3.0

Trenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257.7 263.8 259.8 264.5 4.7 1.8

Vineland-Bridgeton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.5 56.0 57.5 57.7 0.2 0.3

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825.2 825.6 827.3 825.3 -2.0 -0.2

Albuquerque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380.6 384.0 382.0 385.6 3.6 0.9

Farmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.9 49.9 50.9 51.1 0.2 0.4

Las Cruces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.8 71.3 71.0 71.6 0.6 0.8

Santa Fe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.3 64.3 62.5 62.9 0.4 0.6

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,252.4 9,378.3 9,263.3 9,383.3 120.0 1.3

Albany-Schenectady-Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455.1 453.5 455.8 455.5 -0.3 -0.1

Binghamton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.0 100.6 103.7 102.3 -1.4 -1.4

Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557.0 563.4 560.4 562.1 1.7 0.3

Elmira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.4 37.7 38.7 37.9 -0.8 -2.1

Glens Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.5 59.2 56.9 56.2 -0.7 -1.2

Ithaca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.5 68.7 69.8 73.9 4.1 5.9

Kingston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.3 61.7 60.9 62.5 1.6 2.6

New York-Newark-Jersey City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,332.2 9,513.9 9,347.7 9,517.1 169.4 1.8

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523.5 522.0 528.3 529.4 1.1 0.2

Syracuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313.8 313.1 318.2 318.0 -0.2 -0.1

Utica-Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.0 128.2 127.4 126.3 -1.1 -0.9

Watertown-Fort Drum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.2 44.9 43.4 44.0 0.6 1.4

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,249.9 4,333.1 4,271.1 4,352.6 81.5 1.9

Asheville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182.3 185.5 183.9 188.2 4.3 2.3

Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.9 59.9 59.4 60.1 0.7 1.2

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,104.5 1,132.7 1,108.4 1,130.8 22.4 2.0

Durham-Chapel Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295.1 301.5 296.8 305.1 8.3 2.8

Fayetteville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.5 128.4 127.4 130.1 2.7 2.1

Goldsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.4 42.0 42.2 42.5 0.3 0.7

Greensboro-High Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355.0 360.7 356.9 362.7 5.8 1.6

Greenville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.8 77.7 78.9 79.1 0.2 0.3

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.8 146.5 147.7 147.1 -0.6 -0.4

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.0 50.0 49.1 49.4 0.3 0.6

New Bern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.6 45.1 44.3 44.9 0.6 1.4

Raleigh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586.9 601.3 587.8 600.0 12.2 2.1

Rocky Mount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.1 55.3 57.0 57.0 0.0 0.0

Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.0 123.0 121.6 123.4 1.8 1.5

Winston-Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256.3 258.3 259.1 261.6 2.5 1.0

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448.3 438.7 452.9 445.9 -7.0 -1.5

Bismarck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.0 74.4 74.9 75.3 0.4 0.5

Fargo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137.5 139.8 140.5 142.2 1.7 1.2

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area — Continued

[In thousands]

State and area

August September

Change from

September 2015 to September

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

North Dakota - Continued

Grand Forks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.9 55.5 57.5 57.6 0.1 0.2

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,450.2 5,525.2 5,449.4 5,524.4 75.0 1.4

Akron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335.5 341.1 340.4 346.3 5.9 1.7

Canton-Massillon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.2 173.8 172.1 173.6 1.5 0.9

Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,068.8 1,086.0 1,069.1 1,086.1 17.0 1.6

Cleveland-Elyria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,053.9 1,069.2 1,044.4 1,060.2 15.8 1.5

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,044.8 1,062.2 1,045.9 1,062.9 17.0 1.6

Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380.2 387.2 379.6 388.1 8.5 2.2

Lima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.6 54.8 52.7 54.4 1.7 3.2

Mansfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.8 52.6 52.9 52.2 -0.7 -1.3

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.0 51.2 50.8 51.1 0.3 0.6

Toledo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303.9 313.2 307.6 313.3 5.7 1.9

Weirton-Steubenville1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.7 44.1 43.9 44.2 0.3 0.7

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225.0 224.1 227.2 226.6 -0.6 -0.3

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,662.9 1,650.5 1,668.1 1,656.4 -11.7 -0.7

Lawton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.6 46.1 45.5 45.9 0.4 0.9

Oklahoma City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627.8 629.3 631.7 632.0 0.3 0.0

Tulsa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442.4 441.0 444.2 443.7 -0.5 -0.1

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,778.7 1,844.4 1,792.7 1,853.4 60.7 3.4

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.2 42.0 41.7 43.1 1.4 3.4

Bend-Redmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.3 79.6 75.8 80.2 4.4 5.8

Corvallis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.8 39.2 40.0 39.9 -0.1 -0.3

Eugene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148.8 152.1 151.0 153.7 2.7 1.8

Grants Pass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.6 25.4 25.3 25.7 0.4 1.6

Medford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.2 83.7 82.6 84.8 2.2 2.7

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,112.9 1,146.0 1,118.3 1,148.3 30.0 2.7

Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154.8 161.9 158.7 163.3 4.6 2.9

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,810.5 5,872.3 5,867.9 5,907.9 40.0 0.7

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355.3 358.0 360.5 358.9 -1.6 -0.4

Altoona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.6 62.7 62.0 62.6 0.6 1.0

Bloomsburg-Berwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.1 41.8 42.5 42.9 0.4 0.9

Chambersburg-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.5 62.0 59.9 62.4 2.5 4.2

East Stroudsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.3 57.5 56.8 57.7 0.9 1.6

Erie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130.1 129.1 131.7 130.9 -0.8 -0.6

Gettysburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.5 34.1 34.1 34.8 0.7 2.1

Harrisburg-Carlisle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336.7 341.4 335.7 336.7 1.0 0.3

Johnstown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.9 55.4 57.1 56.0 -1.1 -1.9

Lancaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245.2 246.9 246.8 247.7 0.9 0.4

Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.8 51.0 51.4 51.7 0.3 0.6

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,799.9 2,860.6 2,830.3 2,879.1 48.8 1.7

Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,160.7 1,158.7 1,167.7 1,165.3 -2.4 -0.2

Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.0 177.0 177.7 179.4 1.7 1.0

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255.3 256.9 259.6 259.0 -0.6 -0.2

State College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.2 74.9 77.2 78.6 1.4 1.8

Williamsport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.1 53.9 55.5 53.7 -1.8 -3.2

York-Hanover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.0 184.0 183.4 185.9 2.5 1.4

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486.0 493.8 490.1 495.2 5.1 1.0

Providence-Warwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575.0 586.6 580.9 588.6 7.7 1.3

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,012.9 2,058.9 2,016.1 2,068.1 52.0 2.6

Charleston-North Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336.3 345.6 335.2 346.6 11.4 3.4

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384.0 392.6 386.8 396.1 9.3 2.4

Florence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.9 86.9 86.8 87.1 0.3 0.3

Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402.8 407.3 404.0 409.3 5.3 1.3

Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.7 79.0 75.3 77.8 2.5 3.3

Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163.4 167.7 158.5 162.0 3.5 2.2

Spartanburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.8 144.8 143.3 146.4 3.1 2.2

Sumter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.7 39.1 39.0 39.2 0.2 0.5

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area — Continued

[In thousands]

State and area

August September

Change from

September 2015 to September

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434.4 446.1 431.9 440.7 8.8 2.0

Rapid City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.8 71.4 67.6 68.9 1.3 1.9

Sioux Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.6 158.0 151.1 157.1 6.0 4.0

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,895.1 2,958.9 2,922.1 2,984.8 62.7 2.1

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249.8 251.0 249.4 251.7 2.3 0.9

Clarksville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.3 90.4 89.5 91.0 1.5 1.7

Cleveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.6 48.6 46.4 48.8 2.4 5.2

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.9 67.5 66.8 67.5 0.7 1.0

Johnson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.9 79.0 79.9 80.8 0.9 1.1

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121.2 122.4 122.5 123.2 0.7 0.6

Knoxville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387.5 394.6 390.7 398.0 7.3 1.9

Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629.2 633.8 629.8 633.2 3.4 0.5

Morristown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.2 45.7 44.9 46.2 1.3 2.9

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915.4 947.5 923.0 948.3 25.3 2.7

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,830.9 12,010.7 11,862.7 12,070.2 207.5 1.7

Abilene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.0 68.4 68.3 69.4 1.1 1.6

Amarillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.9 119.2 118.3 119.3 1.0 0.8

Austin-Round Rock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960.8 992.8 964.4 993.0 28.6 3.0

Beaumont-Port Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164.7 166.1 166.0 167.3 1.3 0.8

Brownsville-Harlingen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.2 143.0 139.1 142.7 3.6 2.6

College Station-Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.3 110.1 110.6 114.8 4.2 3.8

Corpus Christi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193.5 195.9 193.7 196.2 2.5 1.3

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,415.1 3,531.0 3,420.4 3,542.7 122.3 3.6

El Paso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301.4 308.8 303.8 311.6 7.8 2.6

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,979.2 2,991.7 2,986.1 3,006.2 20.1 0.7

Killeen-Temple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.2 142.1 140.1 142.0 1.9 1.4

Laredo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.5 103.9 101.6 104.5 2.9 2.9

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.5 100.1 99.7 100.2 0.5 0.5

Lubbock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.5 143.3 141.3 143.8 2.5 1.8

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245.6 251.9 247.1 255.3 8.2 3.3

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.9 90.3 90.5 90.3 -0.2 -0.2

Odessa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.0 72.9 73.9 72.9 -1.0 -1.4

San Angelo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.9 50.1 48.8 50.3 1.5 3.1

San Antonio-New Braunfels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 980.8 998.7 984.3 1,005.4 21.1 2.1

Sherman-Denison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.4 47.0 45.9 46.7 0.8 1.7

Texarkana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.6 59.5 60.7 60.5 -0.2 -0.3

Tyler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.1 103.6 101.6 103.2 1.6 1.6

Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.6 45.5 44.7 45.6 0.9 2.0

Waco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.0 118.3 116.1 118.6 2.5 2.2

Wichita Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.2 58.3 58.1 58.2 0.1 0.2

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,376.1 1,418.2 1,394.4 1,434.2 39.8 2.9

Logan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.5 58.3 60.0 61.6 1.6 2.7

Ogden-Clearfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240.8 251.2 242.1 252.2 10.1 4.2

Provo-Orem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223.9 233.1 230.9 237.4 6.5 2.8

St. George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.4 61.3 58.3 62.0 3.7 6.3

Salt Lake City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677.5 697.4 682.1 702.7 20.6 3.0

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308.5 314.6 313.4 317.0 3.6 1.1

Burlington-South Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123.7 125.3 125.5 127.2 1.7 1.4

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,864.0 3,927.4 3,873.1 3,944.4 71.3 1.8

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.1 76.1 79.0 79.2 0.2 0.3

Charlottesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.0 114.4 115.0 118.4 3.4 3.0

Harrisonburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.6 62.6 65.1 65.2 0.1 0.2

Lynchburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.2 103.9 104.5 103.7 -0.8 -0.8

Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652.9 673.2 655.1 674.3 19.2 2.9

Roanoke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.1 163.0 161.9 163.3 1.4 0.9

Staunton-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.5 48.9 49.6 48.9 -0.7 -1.4

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774.3 775.5 768.6 771.9 3.3 0.4

Winchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.3 63.3 61.9 63.8 1.9 3.1

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,165.9 3,261.4 3,183.2 3,278.6 95.4 3.0

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area — Continued

[In thousands]

State and area

August September

Change from

September 2015 to September

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

Washington - Continued

Bellingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.3 86.7 86.8 88.5 1.7 2.0

Bremerton-Silverdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.6 89.8 88.6 89.6 1.0 1.1

Kennewick-Richland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.2 110.9 108.5 111.6 3.1 2.9

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.9 40.5 39.4 41.2 1.8 4.6

Mount Vernon-Anacortes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.5 50.4 48.6 50.1 1.5 3.1

Olympia-Tumwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.5 111.4 109.6 111.5 1.9 1.7

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,903.6 1,971.2 1,910.5 1,976.6 66.1 3.5

Spokane-Spokane Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233.3 242.2 236.6 245.3 8.7 3.7

Walla Walla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.0 26.2 26.5 26.6 0.1 0.4

Wenatchee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.3 44.7 44.2 44.5 0.3 0.7

Yakima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.1 83.1 83.1 84.3 1.2 1.4

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757.5 758.9 766.8 765.4 -1.4 -0.2

Beckley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.9 47.1 47.5 47.0 -0.5 -1.1

Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.6 122.4 122.9 121.8 -1.1 -0.9

Huntington-Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.2 141.1 141.1 142.1 1.0 0.7

Morgantown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.4 70.1 71.6 72.7 1.1 1.5

Parkersburg-Vienna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.8 41.4 42.2 41.5 -0.7 -1.7

Wheeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.7 67.5 68.0 67.3 -0.7 -1.0

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,906.3 2,958.4 2,907.5 2,947.7 40.2 1.4

Appleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.1 125.7 122.7 123.9 1.2 1.0

Eau Claire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.4 86.0 85.8 86.7 0.9 1.0

Fond du Lac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.2 48.7 48.5 48.4 -0.1 -0.2

Green Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.0 177.3 174.6 176.8 2.2 1.3

Janesville-Beloit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.5 70.5 67.4 70.3 2.9 4.3

La Crosse-Onalaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.1 77.2 77.6 79.0 1.4 1.8

Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390.9 393.3 391.3 395.8 4.5 1.2

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860.8 868.3 858.1 862.4 4.3 0.5

Oshkosh-Neenah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.2 95.5 94.7 94.8 0.1 0.1

Racine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.9 78.0 77.0 77.4 0.4 0.5

Sheboygan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.2 62.5 61.2 62.3 1.1 1.8

Wausau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.0 73.3 71.8 72.7 0.9 1.3

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295.9 287.2 295.2 285.9 -9.3 -3.2

Casper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.3 40.0 41.8 39.6 -2.2 -5.3

Cheyenne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.6 46.5 47.2 46.0 -1.2 -2.5

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883.7 881.8 892.9 886.3 -6.6 -0.7

Aguadilla-Isabela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.9 50.7 50.3 50.7 0.4 0.8

Arecibo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.9 32.5 33.6 32.8 -0.8 -2.4

Guayama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.9 15.1 15.4 15.1 -0.3 -1.9

Mayaguez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.8 34.0 33.9 34.2 0.3 0.9

Ponce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.3 69.6 70.9 69.8 -1.1 -1.6

San German. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.2 19.4 20.6 19.6 -1.0 -4.9

San Juan-Carolina-Caguas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641.7 639.5 648.2 642.8 -5.4 -0.8

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.5 37.5 36.9 37.3 0.4 1.1

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 the 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. 13-01, dated February 28, 2013, and are available on the BLS website at

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 division1

[In thousands]

State, area, and division

August September

Change from

September 2015 to September

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,095.2 16,435.8 16,151.0 16,513.5 362.5 2.2

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,803.7 5,921.6 5,840.9 5,954.5 113.6 1.9

Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,542.4 1,580.3 1,549.9 1,593.8 43.9 2.8

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,261.3 4,341.3 4,291.0 4,360.7 69.7 1.6

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,275.6 2,331.1 2,277.7 2,337.4 59.7 2.6

Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,099.5 1,125.2 1,099.9 1,128.8 28.9 2.6

San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,061.9 1,087.8 1,064.2 1,091.7 27.5 2.6

San Rafael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.2 118.1 113.6 116.9 3.3 2.9

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759.1 772.7 766.6 780.4 13.8 1.8

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,168.8 3,243.1 3,180.9 3,257.0 76.1 2.4

Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586.0 597.1 587.3 596.1 8.8 1.5

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,582.8 2,646.0 2,593.6 2,660.9 67.3 2.6

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,086.6 8,341.4 8,100.7 8,377.6 276.9 3.4

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,499.0 2,558.9 2,507.1 2,568.9 61.8 2.5

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795.2 829.2 797.5 832.9 35.4 4.4

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,121.6 1,132.9 1,126.1 1,141.0 14.9 1.3

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582.2 596.8 583.5 595.0 11.5 2.0

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,985.6 6,023.2 6,008.9 6,051.6 42.7 0.7

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,619.3 4,677.3 4,620.8 4,676.3 55.5 1.2

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,677.4 3,720.3 3,674.9 3,715.2 40.3 1.1

Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256.4 261.3 258.3 262.0 3.7 1.4

Gary3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272.3 276.4 275.8 281.5 5.7 2.1

Lake County-Kenosha County2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413.2 419.3 411.8 417.6 5.8 1.4

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,514.5 3,593.4 3,514.0 3,592.0 78.0 2.2

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,657.3 2,713.0 2,657.5 2,707.1 49.6 1.9

Boston-Cambridge-Newton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,783.2 1,823.4 1,780.0 1,814.0 34.0 1.9

Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.1 80.0 80.0 81.7 1.7 2.1

Framingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.7 175.3 172.9 175.4 2.5 1.4

Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.9 69.1 66.0 68.8 2.8 4.2

Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.6 82.7 82.3 82.3 0.0 0.0

Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149.7 151.5 149.5 151.6 2.1 1.4

Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.3 46.0 45.2 45.6 0.4 0.9

Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.8 127.3 126.4 129.0 2.6 2.1

Peabody-Salem-Beverly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.0 97.1 95.8 97.1 1.3 1.4

Taunton-Middleborough-Norton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.0 60.6 59.4 61.6 2.2 3.7

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,237.2 4,329.3 4,273.5 4,358.6 85.1 2.0

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,940.2 1,980.2 1,946.0 1,985.6 39.6 2.0

Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735.2 744.1 737.0 750.6 13.6 1.8

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,205.0 1,236.1 1,209.0 1,235.0 26.0 2.2

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,252.4 9,378.3 9,263.3 9,383.3 120.0 1.3

New York-Newark-Jersey City2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,332.2 9,513.9 9,347.7 9,517.1 169.4 1.8

Dutchess County-Putnam County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.0 147.1 144.4 146.3 1.9 1.3

Nassau County-Suffolk County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,315.9 1,330.6 1,312.5 1,327.1 14.6 1.1

Newark3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,180.4 1,204.4 1,188.2 1,207.8 19.6 1.6

New York-Jersey City-White Plains2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,691.9 6,831.8 6,702.6 6,835.9 133.3 2.0

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,810.5 5,872.3 5,867.9 5,907.9 40.0 0.7

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,799.9 2,860.6 2,830.3 2,879.1 48.8 1.7

Camden3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515.1 530.3 521.3 531.8 10.5 2.0

Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,031.4 1,047.0 1,034.9 1,048.8 13.9 1.3

Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900.3 920.9 918.5 934.4 15.9 1.7

Wilmington3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353.1 362.4 355.6 364.1 8.5 2.4

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,830.9 12,010.7 11,862.7 12,070.2 207.5 1.7

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,415.1 3,531.0 3,420.4 3,542.7 122.3 3.6

Dallas-Plano-Irving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,418.5 2,517.5 2,422.5 2,523.8 101.3 4.2

Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996.6 1,013.5 997.9 1,018.9 21.0 2.1

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,165.9 3,261.4 3,183.2 3,278.6 95.4 3.0

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,903.6 1,971.2 1,910.5 1,976.6 66.1 3.5

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,607.4 1,664.1 1,610.2 1,666.5 56.3 3.5

Tacoma-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296.2 307.1 300.3 310.1 9.8 3.3

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. 13-01, dated February 28, 2013, and available at 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, N.J., are totally outside the states under which their

metropolitan areas are listed. For Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va., 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

September 2016

(U.S. rate = 4.8 percent)

Map includes data for 387 metropolitan areas basedon Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 13-01. 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, September 2016

(U.S. average = 1.7 percent)

Above U.S. average

U.S. average or below

NOTE: Map includes data for 387

metropolitan areas based on Office of

Managment and Budget Bulletin No. 13-

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.