For release 10:00 a.m. (EST) Wednesday, November 30, 2016 USDL-16-2230 

Technical information: 

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METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT — OCTOBER 2016

Unemployment rates were lower in October than a year earlier in 231 of the 387 metropolitan areas, 

higher in 127 areas, and unchanged in 29 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. 

Thirty 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 311 metropolitan areas, decreased in 68 areas, 

and was unchanged in 8 areas. The national unemployment rate in October was 4.7 percent, not 

seasonally adjusted, and was little different from that of October 2015. 

Metropolitan Area Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In October, the lowest unemployment rate was in Fargo, N.D.-Minn., 1.8 percent. El Centro, Calif., and 

Yuma, Ariz., had the highest unemployment rates, 22.0 percent and 19.4 percent, respectively. A total of 

198 areas had October jobless rates below the U.S. rate of 4.7 percent, 173 areas had rates above it, and 

16 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 October (-2.9 percentage 

points). Twenty-three other areas had rate declines of at least 1.0 percentage point. The largest over-theyear rate increase occurred in Erie, Pa. (+1.8 percentage points). 

Of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census population of 1 million or more, Boston-CambridgeNashua, Mass.-N.H., had the lowest unemployment rate in October, 2.6 percent. Riverside-San 

Bernardino-Ontario, Calif., had the highest rate among the large areas, 6.1 percent. Thirty-five large 

areas had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases, 14 had increases, and 2 had no change. The 

largest rate decrease occurred in Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, Mass.-N.H. (-1.5 percentage points). The 

largest over-the-year rate increase was in Cleveland-Elyria, Ohio (+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 October, Framingham, Mass., had the lowest 

unemployment rate among the divisions, 2.3 percent. Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, Mich., had the highest 

division rate, 6.6 percent. (See table 2.) 
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In October, 29 metropolitan divisions had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases, 7 had increases, 

and 2 had no change. The largest rate decline occurred in Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem, Mass.-N.H. 

(-2.2 percentage points). The largest over-the-year rate increases occurred in Montgomery CountyBucks County-Chester County, Pa., and Philadelphia, Pa. (+0.8 percentage point each). 

Metropolitan Area Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In October, 311 metropolitan areas had over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment, 68 had 

decreases, and 8 had no change. The largest over-the-year employment increases occurred in New YorkNewark-Jersey City, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa. (+135,600), Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+114,000), and 

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, Calif. (+111,200). The largest over-the-year percentage gain in 

employment occurred in Cleveland, Tenn. (+6.7 percent), followed by Madera, Calif. (+6.0 percent), 

and Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, Fla. (+5.1 percent). (See table 3 and map 2.) 

The largest over-the-year decreases in employment occurred in Lafayette, La. (-6,900), Elkhart-Goshen, 

Ind. (-3,200), and Houma-Thibodaux, La. (-2,400). The largest over-the-year percentage decrease in 

employment occurred in Casper, Wyo. (-5.3 percent), followed by Cheyenne, Wyo. (-3.8 percent), and 

Lafayette, La. (-3.2 percent).

 

Over the year, nonfarm employment rose in 49 of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census 

population of 1 million or more, and fell in Oklahoma City, Okla. (-0.2 percent), and MilwaukeeWaukesha-West Allis, Wis. (-0.1 percent). The largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment 

in these large metropolitan areas occurred in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Fla. (+4.0 percent), followed 

by Jacksonville, Fla., and Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash. (+3.7 percent each). 

Metropolitan Division Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)

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

and decreased in Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem, Mass.-N.H. (-600, or -0.7 percent). The largest overthe-year increase in employment among the metropolitan divisions occurred in New York-Jersey CityWhite Plains, N.Y.-N.J. (+109,700), followed by Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas (+93,000), and Los 

Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, Calif. (+71,200). (See table 4.) 

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

in Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Wash. (+3.9 percent), followed by Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas, and 

Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town, Mass.-N.H. (+3.8 percent each). 

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The Regional and State Employment and Unemployment news release for November is scheduled 

to be released on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. (EST). The Metropolitan Area 

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

Thursday, December 29, 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

September October Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

September October September October

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,136,040 2,189,369 2,148,602 2,212,911 125,914 124,763 124,703 132,840 5.9 5.7 5.8 6.0

Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . 45,279 46,187 45,909 46,835 3,093 2,874 3,144 3,075 6.8 6.2 6.8 6.6

Auburn-Opelika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,159 74,323 71,801 75,228 3,451 3,546 3,395 3,832 4.8 4.8 4.7 5.1

Birmingham-Hoover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526,479 539,476 530,791 545,567 28,324 29,283 28,268 31,038 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.7

Daphne-Fairhope-Foley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,191 90,267 87,205 90,842 4,562 4,566 4,600 5,003 5.2 5.1 5.3 5.5

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,508 69,924 68,893 70,706 4,111 3,886 4,073 4,129 6.0 5.6 5.9 5.8

Dothan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,164 63,194 62,249 64,141 3,753 3,563 3,645 3,798 6.0 5.6 5.9 5.9

Florence-Muscle Shoals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,015 66,934 66,490 67,720 4,533 4,146 4,463 4,251 6.9 6.2 6.7 6.3

Gadsden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,218 43,942 43,476 44,577 2,560 2,555 2,552 2,739 5.9 5.8 5.9 6.1

Huntsville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208,228 212,673 209,965 216,257 10,893 10,579 10,883 11,378 5.2 5.0 5.2 5.3

Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181,370 185,036 182,532 188,063 12,525 12,280 12,387 12,934 6.9 6.6 6.8 6.9

Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167,091 170,846 168,702 172,995 9,617 9,389 9,648 10,017 5.8 5.5 5.7 5.8

Tuscaloosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,725 115,877 112,572 117,163 5,995 6,366 5,867 6,737 5.4 5.5 5.2 5.8

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363,813 360,640 361,078 356,491 21,229 22,926 22,367 22,621 5.8 6.4 6.2 6.3

Anchorage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,636 199,788 203,415 202,125 10,573 11,840 10,878 11,466 5.3 5.9 5.3 5.7

Fairbanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,576 46,505 46,545 45,870 2,249 2,598 2,482 2,478 4.8 5.6 5.3 5.4

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,160,727 3,248,843 3,171,338 3,260,826 194,679 182,125 189,172 169,943 6.2 5.6 6.0 5.2

Flagstaff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,450 75,829 73,948 75,609 4,585 4,429 4,551 4,314 6.2 5.8 6.2 5.7

Lake Havasu City-Kingman. . . . . . . . . . . . 79,396 79,787 79,137 79,871 6,239 5,440 6,045 5,020 7.9 6.8 7.6 6.3

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,171,475 2,237,665 2,183,950 2,248,214 113,556 108,178 111,589 100,916 5.2 4.8 5.1 4.5

Prescott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,021 103,919 98,427 104,069 5,250 5,151 5,157 4,661 5.4 5.0 5.2 4.5

Sierra Vista-Douglas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,452 50,146 49,212 50,028 3,608 3,184 3,467 2,962 7.3 6.3 7.0 5.9

Tucson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465,412 477,724 466,218 479,043 25,628 24,753 25,360 22,846 5.5 5.2 5.4 4.8

Yuma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,195 94,160 92,291 94,861 22,982 19,706 20,625 18,405 24.7 20.9 22.3 19.4

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,332,722 1,355,110 1,335,461 1,348,580 61,935 53,485 57,984 46,233 4.6 3.9 4.3 3.4

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers. . . . . . . . . 256,052 263,762 257,197 263,046 8,527 7,714 8,035 6,669 3.3 2.9 3.1 2.5

Fort Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,361 122,043 121,602 121,873 6,161 5,891 5,950 5,169 5.1 4.8 4.9 4.2

Hot Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,092 40,796 39,705 40,275 2,092 1,749 1,977 1,587 5.2 4.3 5.0 3.9

Jonesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,167 63,360 61,354 63,218 2,568 2,089 2,385 1,827 4.2 3.3 3.9 2.9

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway. . . . 348,804 354,086 348,912 353,399 14,706 12,737 13,752 10,979 4.2 3.6 3.9 3.1

Pine Bluff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,346 36,106 36,564 36,054 2,318 1,966 2,123 1,696 6.4 5.4 5.8 4.7

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,917,335 19,435,024 18,995,347 19,463,437 1,063,374 1,028,577 1,094,641 1,031,052 5.6 5.3 5.8 5.3

Bakersfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393,170 402,181 396,572 403,536 34,197 36,679 35,686 36,811 8.7 9.1 9.0 9.1

Chico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,506 103,619 102,822 104,977 6,236 6,241 6,485 6,292 6.2 6.0 6.3 6.0

El Centro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,411 81,742 79,643 79,547 19,599 20,588 19,479 17,537 25.0 25.2 24.5 22.0

Fresno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441,901 453,028 442,475 448,333 36,816 37,360 41,140 41,099 8.3 8.2 9.3 9.2

Hanford-Corcoran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,088 58,286 57,660 57,890 4,781 4,826 5,513 5,215 8.2 8.3 9.6 9.0

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . 6,579,482 6,788,684 6,595,274 6,785,543 375,151 335,398 370,412 328,186 5.7 4.9 5.6 4.8

Madera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,392 62,891 59,502 61,377 5,015 4,804 5,562 5,186 8.3 7.6 9.3 8.4

Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,054 118,927 116,258 118,478 9,773 9,701 10,640 10,208 8.3 8.2 9.2 8.6

Modesto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242,828 248,399 240,557 247,884 19,082 18,529 20,577 19,472 7.9 7.5 8.6 7.9

Napa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,011 78,469 76,444 78,919 2,886 2,974 3,271 2,996 3.8 3.8 4.3 3.8

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. . . . . . . 423,466 429,605 428,582 435,990 23,435 23,478 23,732 23,243 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.3

Redding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,485 75,007 75,346 75,503 4,936 4,809 5,180 4,843 6.6 6.4 6.9 6.4

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. . . . . . 1,948,626 1,995,627 1,968,126 2,005,783 121,855 123,390 125,351 122,090 6.3 6.2 6.4 6.1

Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade. . . 1,055,745 1,087,338 1,059,804 1,087,843 56,175 55,814 58,890 56,931 5.3 5.1 5.6 5.2

Salinas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227,666 227,585 225,931 225,610 12,293 11,968 13,198 12,412 5.4 5.3 5.8 5.5

San Diego-Carlsbad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,557,279 1,594,087 1,564,233 1,598,558 75,451 75,290 79,225 76,080 4.8 4.7 5.1 4.8

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . 2,506,056 2,572,729 2,517,869 2,586,311 98,103 98,696 102,805 100,147 3.9 3.8 4.1 3.9

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. . . . . . . 1,046,711 1,086,113 1,053,517 1,089,316 40,844 41,557 43,020 42,200 3.9 3.8 4.1 3.9

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo

Grande. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,195 144,792 143,159 146,658 5,991 6,004 6,299 6,072 4.2 4.1 4.4 4.1

Santa Cruz-Watsonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,869 146,558 143,253 147,910 7,860 7,720 8,373 7,968 5.5 5.3 5.8 5.4

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . 217,890 222,597 220,179 224,952 9,821 10,084 10,810 10,388 4.5 4.5 4.9 4.6

Santa Rosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261,380 267,853 261,053 265,901 10,345 10,049 10,993 10,306 4.0 3.8 4.2 3.9

Stockton-Lodi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317,869 322,189 318,292 321,701 24,163 24,012 25,695 24,590 7.6 7.5 8.1 7.6

Vallejo-Fairfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205,839 211,333 207,533 212,251 11,313 11,246 11,818 11,351 5.5 5.3 5.7 5.3

Visalia-Porterville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,994 206,177 198,778 203,955 20,066 20,951 21,374 22,040 10.0 10.2 10.8 10.8

Yuba City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,677 73,370 72,372 72,908 5,829 5,705 6,250 5,989 8.0 7.8 8.6 8.2

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,828,252 2,906,858 2,833,658 2,919,356 90,350 87,455 90,094 89,463 3.2 3.0 3.2 3.1

Boulder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177,693 182,416 179,043 184,283 4,502 4,441 4,679 4,617 2.5 2.4 2.6 2.5

Colorado Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321,042 325,677 321,506 326,168 12,010 11,327 11,917 11,523 3.7 3.5 3.7 3.5

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,510,307 1,560,054 1,511,722 1,567,364 46,253 44,898 45,722 45,778 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.9

Fort Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182,177 187,381 182,915 188,540 4,773 4,740 4,920 4,957 2.6 2.5 2.7 2.6

Grand Junction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,329 73,320 72,250 73,416 3,398 3,449 3,293 3,331 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.5

Greeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147,729 152,499 148,555 154,681 4,788 4,600 4,769 4,647 3.2 3.0 3.2 3.0

Pueblo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,015 73,640 72,186 74,125 3,537 3,283 3,220 3,247 4.9 4.5 4.5 4.4

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,874,414 1,897,757 1,882,726 1,896,552 96,189 96,029 95,007 85,546 5.1 5.1 5.0 4.5

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk. . . . . . . . . . . 460,015 467,361 461,602 464,749 23,167 23,255 22,881 20,775 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.5

Danbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105,043 106,692 105,715 106,657 4,300 4,343 4,271 3,852 4.1 4.1 4.0 3.6

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. . . . 612,777 619,966 616,370 622,051 31,357 31,342 31,051 27,835 5.1 5.1 5.0 4.5

New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321,149 324,366 322,536 324,104 16,736 16,623 16,613 14,788 5.2 5.1 5.2 4.6

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

September October Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

September October September October

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

Connecticut - Continued

Norwich-New London-Westerly. . . . . . . . . 142,088 141,967 141,782 141,345 7,629 7,292 7,500 6,587 5.4 5.1 5.3 4.7

Waterbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,140 111,306 110,185 111,176 7,199 7,059 6,969 6,292 6.5 6.3 6.3 5.7

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466,336 472,321 471,473 473,343 22,560 20,116 22,355 19,981 4.8 4.3 4.7 4.2

Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,156 77,322 77,859 78,186 4,074 3,576 4,035 3,571 5.3 4.6 5.2 4.6

Salisbury1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187,414 189,608 184,437 186,795 9,932 8,640 10,562 9,461 5.3 4.6 5.7 5.1

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387,821 389,882 390,409 399,144 26,332 25,377 25,983 24,607 6.8 6.5 6.7 6.2

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. . . . . . . 3,269,076 3,293,497 3,291,298 3,333,327 140,951 126,540 139,006 131,537 4.3 3.8 4.2 3.9

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,696,612 9,870,136 9,698,746 9,887,458 513,732 492,692 495,501 488,986 5.3 5.0 5.1 4.9

Cape Coral-Fort Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317,120 324,950 320,685 330,453 15,977 15,410 15,325 15,471 5.0 4.7 4.8 4.7

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. . . . 120,815 121,191 118,788 119,932 5,194 5,021 5,044 5,072 4.3 4.1 4.2 4.2

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283,840 293,922 283,268 294,816 15,722 15,178 15,258 15,327 5.5 5.2 5.4 5.2

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,364 140,359 139,211 139,799 6,210 6,262 5,814 6,221 4.5 4.5 4.2 4.4

Homosassa Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,772 47,803 47,923 47,821 3,326 3,240 3,252 3,239 7.0 6.8 6.8 6.8

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730,433 757,948 726,991 749,050 36,552 35,156 35,186 34,980 5.0 4.6 4.8 4.7

Lakeland-Winter Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281,534 284,031 280,501 283,321 17,431 16,770 16,432 16,444 6.2 5.9 5.9 5.8

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,017,107 3,046,034 3,031,755 3,067,013 166,701 157,619 161,753 154,964 5.5 5.2 5.3 5.1

Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island. . . . . . . . 158,822 162,225 159,852 163,815 8,957 8,826 8,428 8,578 5.6 5.4 5.3 5.2

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton. . . . . . . . . 342,811 349,525 342,688 354,178 16,913 16,505 16,458 16,663 4.9 4.7 4.8 4.7

Ocala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,465 132,489 131,087 132,239 8,075 7,926 7,809 7,989 6.1 6.0 6.0 6.0

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford. . . . . . . . . . . 1,234,988 1,278,706 1,231,822 1,272,072 60,024 57,461 57,788 57,220 4.9 4.5 4.7 4.5

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. . . . . . . . . 258,375 260,852 256,644 259,825 14,632 13,608 14,125 13,643 5.7 5.2 5.5 5.3

Panama City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,454 94,543 92,768 93,511 4,639 4,488 4,529 4,506 4.9 4.7 4.9 4.8

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. . . . . . . . . . . 214,872 218,290 213,421 217,571 10,847 10,760 10,471 10,705 5.0 4.9 4.9 4.9

Port St. Lucie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201,483 204,194 201,668 204,226 11,853 11,521 11,073 11,339 5.9 5.6 5.5 5.6

Punta Gorda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,183 68,385 67,308 68,851 3,959 3,808 3,848 3,803 5.9 5.6 5.7 5.5

Sebastian-Vero Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,752 61,265 60,934 61,552 4,328 4,103 4,066 4,019 7.1 6.7 6.7 6.5

Sebring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,797 35,481 35,074 35,692 2,566 2,443 2,481 2,468 7.4 6.9 7.1 6.9

Tallahassee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188,260 190,390 187,821 190,467 9,479 9,260 8,944 9,120 5.0 4.9 4.8 4.8

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. . . . . . 1,452,525 1,477,027 1,450,859 1,479,949 71,781 69,537 69,608 69,614 4.9 4.7 4.8 4.7

The Villages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,601 29,445 28,673 29,570 2,024 2,040 2,040 2,107 7.1 6.9 7.1 7.1

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,750,081 4,929,794 4,772,874 4,948,431 264,442 260,606 265,087 256,725 5.6 5.3 5.6 5.2

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,954 67,132 65,534 67,806 4,346 4,165 4,309 4,067 6.7 6.2 6.6 6.0

Athens-Clarke County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,090 99,572 94,376 98,659 4,936 5,539 4,874 4,735 5.2 5.6 5.2 4.8

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell. . . . . . . . . 2,825,799 2,943,724 2,842,017 2,955,368 150,238 147,577 150,163 143,726 5.3 5.0 5.3 4.9

Augusta-Richmond County. . . . . . . . . . . . . 255,325 259,611 255,042 260,078 15,720 14,845 15,653 14,691 6.2 5.7 6.1 5.6

Brunswick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,020 51,606 50,154 51,402 2,946 2,811 2,912 2,944 5.9 5.4 5.8 5.7

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,835 126,434 123,771 126,009 8,058 7,863 8,045 7,755 6.6 6.2 6.5 6.2

Dalton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,536 61,514 60,429 61,100 3,574 3,661 3,748 3,646 5.9 6.0 6.2 6.0

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,402 96,184 92,804 96,876 4,130 4,191 4,197 4,308 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4

Hinesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,850 32,458 31,828 32,357 1,876 1,858 1,877 1,844 5.9 5.7 5.9 5.7

Macon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,728 105,712 103,166 106,430 6,171 5,994 6,323 6,294 6.0 5.7 6.1 5.9

Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,536 43,813 42,598 43,637 2,699 2,691 2,654 2,449 6.3 6.1 6.2 5.6

Savannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175,483 183,986 176,049 183,229 9,175 9,210 9,196 9,015 5.2 5.0 5.2 4.9

Valdosta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,197 63,851 62,637 64,193 3,479 3,365 3,492 3,256 5.6 5.3 5.6 5.1

Warner Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,087 81,614 80,489 82,636 4,659 4,561 5,137 5,543 5.8 5.6 6.4 6.7

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675,909 687,529 676,437 694,772 24,844 21,823 22,709 21,392 3.7 3.2 3.4 3.1

Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,460 85,681 83,930 86,186 3,205 2,881 2,947 2,830 3.8 3.4 3.5 3.3

Urban Honolulu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466,039 475,385 469,705 482,042 16,268 14,353 14,835 13,982 3.5 3.0 3.2 2.9

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799,319 812,813 803,823 811,589 29,005 27,857 28,286 26,810 3.6 3.4 3.5 3.3

Boise City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323,832 329,791 323,008 327,148 11,852 11,594 11,453 11,138 3.7 3.5 3.5 3.4

Coeur d’Alene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,774 73,612 71,770 72,511 3,087 2,944 3,189 2,950 4.3 4.0 4.4 4.1

Idaho Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,983 65,419 65,683 65,889 2,053 1,953 1,903 1,789 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.7

Lewiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,200 30,872 30,331 30,998 1,097 1,092 1,081 1,107 3.6 3.5 3.6 3.6

Pocatello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,972 41,935 43,068 42,765 1,484 1,393 1,410 1,351 3.5 3.3 3.3 3.2

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,485,397 6,566,619 6,529,418 6,561,428 345,322 355,724 366,098 364,025 5.3 5.4 5.6 5.5

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,276 97,826 99,733 98,474 4,599 4,998 5,005 4,708 4.6 5.1 5.0 4.8

Carbondale-Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,287 60,568 62,223 60,681 3,464 3,560 3,730 3,258 5.7 5.9 6.0 5.4

Champaign-Urbana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,422 122,519 122,445 123,648 5,783 6,023 6,537 5,913 4.8 4.9 5.3 4.8

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,855,965 4,934,935 4,887,598 4,930,120 248,215 257,231 259,280 272,338 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.5

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,510 35,535 35,803 35,524 2,437 2,547 2,581 2,353 6.9 7.2 7.2 6.6

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island1. . . . . . . . . 191,713 189,744 191,543 190,078 9,862 11,146 10,970 10,328 5.1 5.9 5.7 5.4

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,741 50,272 51,146 49,884 3,403 3,354 3,566 3,072 6.7 6.7 7.0 6.2

Kankakee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,261 55,662 55,873 55,935 3,475 3,457 3,746 3,233 6.3 6.2 6.7 5.8

Peoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185,889 184,263 187,111 183,832 11,202 11,768 12,825 10,921 6.0 6.4 6.9 5.9

Rockford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169,323 171,144 169,869 170,139 11,271 11,224 12,047 10,293 6.7 6.6 7.1 6.0

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,224 112,987 112,764 112,836 5,554 5,435 5,993 5,062 4.9 4.8 5.3 4.5

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,259,874 3,356,777 3,283,775 3,334,449 133,431 140,653 139,610 128,834 4.1 4.2 4.3 3.9

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,700 78,988 78,032 78,620 3,267 3,392 3,545 3,146 4.3 4.3 4.5 4.0

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,700 45,121 44,444 45,326 1,308 1,414 1,391 1,301 3.0 3.1 3.1 2.9

Elkhart-Goshen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104,558 104,880 106,084 104,314 3,579 3,752 3,700 3,380 3.4 3.6 3.5 3.2

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

September October Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

September October September October

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

Indiana - Continued

Evansville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157,217 159,042 157,805 158,389 5,874 6,581 6,114 6,081 3.7 4.1 3.9 3.8

Fort Wayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210,643 218,159 212,378 216,739 7,927 8,362 8,430 7,606 3.8 3.8 4.0 3.5

Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson. . . . . . . . . . 1,007,606 1,042,754 1,012,738 1,032,417 39,006 40,533 40,786 37,251 3.9 3.9 4.0 3.6

Kokomo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,792 37,819 36,965 38,105 1,565 1,603 1,668 1,670 4.3 4.2 4.5 4.4

Lafayette-West Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,558 112,871 109,632 112,918 3,946 4,175 4,141 3,929 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.5

Michigan City-La Porte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,340 48,895 48,171 48,549 2,481 2,667 2,606 2,393 5.1 5.5 5.4 4.9

Muncie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,811 55,830 55,379 55,313 2,558 2,711 2,712 2,533 4.7 4.9 4.9 4.6

South Bend-Mishawaka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,966 159,324 157,769 158,218 6,443 6,982 6,651 6,608 4.1 4.4 4.2 4.2

Terre Haute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,793 78,460 77,755 78,260 3,967 3,988 4,082 3,522 5.2 5.1 5.2 4.5

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,692,426 1,723,464 1,706,137 1,724,006 54,914 64,521 53,403 59,243 3.2 3.7 3.1 3.4

Ames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,423 59,704 59,106 60,155 1,287 1,500 1,219 1,301 2.2 2.5 2.1 2.2

Cedar Rapids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,628 145,706 144,111 146,426 4,834 5,592 4,614 5,077 3.4 3.8 3.2 3.5

Des Moines-West Des Moines. . . . . . . . . 336,437 343,610 338,744 344,928 10,386 12,287 10,099 11,230 3.1 3.6 3.0 3.3

Dubuque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,442 56,533 56,084 56,855 1,702 1,932 1,632 1,743 3.1 3.4 2.9 3.1

Iowa City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,061 99,027 97,195 100,261 2,380 2,885 2,273 2,616 2.5 2.9 2.3 2.6

Sioux City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,047 93,269 93,408 92,558 2,765 3,210 2,767 3,052 3.0 3.4 3.0 3.3

Waterloo-Cedar Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,192 90,770 91,448 91,517 3,386 4,084 3,269 3,847 3.8 4.5 3.6 4.2

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,494,757 1,479,930 1,504,437 1,491,746 55,984 59,264 55,675 59,552 3.7 4.0 3.7 4.0

Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,065 65,814 66,442 66,262 2,156 2,242 2,024 2,196 3.3 3.4 3.0 3.3

Manhattan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,192 51,286 52,908 51,755 1,453 1,578 1,352 1,594 2.8 3.1 2.6 3.1

Topeka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,827 117,809 120,460 118,603 4,445 4,639 4,452 4,636 3.7 3.9 3.7 3.9

Wichita. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308,699 309,674 312,175 312,736 13,267 14,027 13,241 14,145 4.3 4.5 4.2 4.5

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,937,687 1,997,899 1,938,168 2,004,254 95,534 95,662 93,529 92,265 4.9 4.8 4.8 4.6

Bowling Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,488 77,880 75,223 78,256 3,245 2,911 3,200 2,869 4.3 3.7 4.3 3.7

Elizabethtown-Fort Knox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,281 66,231 63,201 65,801 2,964 2,940 2,956 2,814 4.7 4.4 4.7 4.3

Lexington-Fayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252,755 258,380 255,980 260,879 9,570 9,201 9,248 8,950 3.8 3.6 3.6 3.4

Louisville/Jefferson County. . . . . . . . . . . . . 619,804 644,268 619,931 642,709 26,479 26,337 26,397 25,049 4.3 4.1 4.3 3.9

Owensboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,870 54,240 52,146 54,516 2,236 2,300 2,244 2,410 4.3 4.2 4.3 4.4

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,140,415 2,126,692 2,150,874 2,120,716 129,006 143,305 126,997 124,426 6.0 6.7 5.9 5.9

Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,440 66,022 66,599 65,213 4,134 4,582 4,016 4,003 6.2 6.9 6.0 6.1

Baton Rouge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421,226 429,254 422,810 430,775 21,511 25,837 20,946 21,533 5.1 6.0 5.0 5.0

Hammond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,798 53,764 53,716 52,925 3,664 4,062 3,506 3,410 6.8 7.6 6.5 6.4

Houma-Thibodaux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,338 95,705 98,218 94,808 5,488 6,783 5,646 6,014 5.6 7.1 5.7 6.3

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225,522 218,682 225,790 216,053 14,199 16,697 14,464 14,539 6.3 7.6 6.4 6.7

Lake Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,840 103,543 103,261 103,856 5,246 5,650 5,023 4,902 5.2 5.5 4.9 4.7

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,126 80,913 82,012 81,088 5,114 5,317 5,017 4,803 6.3 6.6 6.1 5.9

New Orleans-Metairie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596,643 591,173 602,814 593,239 34,701 36,583 33,855 32,053 5.8 6.2 5.6 5.4

Shreveport-Bossier City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193,579 191,255 194,385 190,126 12,734 13,624 12,652 12,139 6.6 7.1 6.5 6.4

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676,651 693,086 678,333 695,794 23,991 23,769 24,059 23,838 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.4

Bangor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,345 70,924 70,558 72,150 2,414 2,478 2,493 2,498 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5

Lewiston-Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,253 55,933 54,839 56,715 1,871 1,799 1,870 1,810 3.4 3.2 3.4 3.2

Portland-South Portland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197,133 202,714 196,482 203,106 5,791 5,595 5,776 5,716 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.8

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,146,530 3,162,738 3,162,575 3,195,793 156,050 126,330 156,868 135,163 5.0 4.0 5.0 4.2

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. . . . . . . . . . . 1,468,519 1,476,754 1,476,835 1,492,761 75,821 61,202 75,972 65,401 5.2 4.1 5.1 4.4

California-Lexington Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,226 54,074 54,501 54,632 2,584 2,040 2,595 2,129 4.8 3.8 4.8 3.9

Cumberland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,986 43,742 44,140 44,205 2,759 2,288 2,693 2,410 6.3 5.2 6.1 5.5

Hagerstown-Martinsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,089 129,166 128,426 130,442 6,303 5,285 6,141 5,739 4.9 4.1 4.8 4.4

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,542,718 3,590,161 3,557,973 3,584,892 172,206 118,770 158,980 97,878 4.9 3.3 4.5 2.7

Barnstable Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,853 126,344 121,674 122,124 6,043 4,033 5,852 3,435 4.8 3.2 4.8 2.8

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,604,584 2,644,354 2,620,948 2,646,581 116,168 81,467 107,258 67,806 4.5 3.1 4.1 2.6

Leominster-Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,055 76,036 75,440 75,985 4,330 2,966 4,006 2,403 5.8 3.9 5.3 3.2

New Bedford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,910 83,095 83,266 82,588 5,795 4,025 5,327 3,308 7.0 4.8 6.4 4.0

Pittsfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,158 43,392 43,256 43,084 2,277 1,558 2,174 1,318 5.3 3.6 5.0 3.1

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360,211 364,613 363,382 365,956 20,465 15,206 18,946 12,472 5.7 4.2 5.2 3.4

Worcester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341,799 347,084 343,557 347,537 17,610 12,825 16,352 10,685 5.2 3.7 4.8 3.1

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,723,231 4,860,588 4,754,223 4,858,107 216,640 214,153 223,097 224,961 4.6 4.4 4.7 4.6

Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185,338 196,020 192,346 200,033 5,746 6,057 5,741 6,931 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.5

Battle Creek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,768 64,531 64,157 64,854 2,571 2,493 2,479 2,749 4.0 3.9 3.9 4.2

Bay City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,785 52,134 52,209 52,060 2,205 2,112 2,089 2,301 4.3 4.1 4.0 4.4

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,997,382 2,088,499 2,010,141 2,078,802 112,407 112,339 122,750 111,928 5.6 5.4 6.1 5.4

Flint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178,979 181,136 180,939 182,774 8,497 8,096 8,154 8,927 4.7 4.5 4.5 4.9

Grand Rapids-Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551,111 562,359 556,512 566,143 16,535 16,316 15,777 18,220 3.0 2.9 2.8 3.2

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,649 71,086 71,792 72,064 3,002 2,867 2,898 3,190 4.2 4.0 4.0 4.4

Kalamazoo-Portage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163,687 168,682 165,347 169,907 6,033 5,902 5,792 6,533 3.7 3.5 3.5 3.8

Lansing-East Lansing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240,966 245,508 244,429 248,060 8,333 8,152 7,923 8,957 3.5 3.3 3.2 3.6

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,098 41,455 41,224 41,456 1,510 1,493 1,469 1,669 3.7 3.6 3.6 4.0

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,032 77,733 77,344 78,637 2,680 2,883 2,799 3,505 3.5 3.7 3.6 4.5

Muskegon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,340 78,737 76,296 78,140 3,521 3,339 3,363 3,671 4.6 4.2 4.4 4.7

Niles-Benton Harbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,725 74,701 74,003 74,121 2,986 2,981 2,824 3,220 4.1 4.0 3.8 4.3

Saginaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,139 90,133 88,614 89,725 3,860 3,648 3,648 3,998 4.4 4.0 4.1 4.5

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,003,330 2,982,084 3,015,656 2,974,717 96,316 100,824 90,896 95,510 3.2 3.4 3.0 3.2

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

September October Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

September October September October

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

Minnesota - Continued

Duluth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,365 139,808 141,609 139,126 6,358 6,609 6,254 6,354 4.5 4.7 4.4 4.6

Mankato-North Mankato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,906 57,867 60,664 59,267 1,476 1,605 1,445 1,495 2.5 2.8 2.4 2.5

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. . . . . . 1,939,856 1,937,513 1,934,844 1,920,011 60,910 63,267 56,678 59,581 3.1 3.3 2.9 3.1

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118,030 118,474 118,796 118,431 3,136 3,345 2,930 3,134 2.7 2.8 2.5 2.6

St. Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,798 109,645 111,827 110,742 3,315 3,605 3,180 3,395 3.0 3.3 2.8 3.1

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,276,864 1,279,603 1,283,181 1,292,579 78,257 73,755 79,922 73,619 6.1 5.8 6.2 5.7

Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . 162,752 161,609 164,762 164,183 10,135 9,729 10,585 9,775 6.2 6.0 6.4 6.0

Hattiesburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,615 68,082 67,508 69,012 3,780 3,643 3,856 3,593 5.7 5.4 5.7 5.2

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266,241 267,243 270,279 272,184 13,885 13,395 14,321 13,414 5.2 5.0 5.3 4.9

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,096,299 3,152,466 3,116,491 3,148,836 131,841 146,636 125,554 130,159 4.3 4.7 4.0 4.1

Cape Girardeau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,973 49,033 49,174 48,970 1,994 2,445 1,933 2,142 4.1 5.0 3.9 4.4

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,911 102,808 102,223 103,257 2,980 3,479 2,784 2,820 3.0 3.4 2.7 2.7

Jefferson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,937 76,993 76,535 76,570 2,739 2,990 2,453 2,455 3.6 3.9 3.2 3.2

Joplin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,322 87,064 88,058 86,871 3,234 3,983 3,127 3,460 3.7 4.6 3.6 4.0

Kansas City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,114,457 1,121,955 1,117,777 1,125,180 46,250 49,120 44,719 46,500 4.2 4.4 4.0 4.1

St. Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,187 65,753 65,892 65,721 2,561 2,818 2,519 2,487 3.9 4.3 3.8 3.8

St. Louis2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,477,176 1,512,320 1,487,365 1,512,457 66,284 71,762 65,415 64,476 4.5 4.7 4.4 4.3

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232,335 237,620 233,221 239,984 8,891 9,971 8,361 8,545 3.8 4.2 3.6 3.6

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522,517 519,654 522,181 523,004 17,775 18,242 19,326 20,094 3.4 3.5 3.7 3.8

Billings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,892 88,219 88,598 89,093 2,562 2,825 2,724 2,993 2.9 3.2 3.1 3.4

Great Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,600 38,286 38,883 38,660 1,375 1,314 1,468 1,436 3.6 3.4 3.8 3.7

Missoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,107 62,237 62,228 62,733 1,902 1,887 2,080 2,114 3.1 3.0 3.3 3.4

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,005,920 1,006,695 1,015,740 1,013,569 27,840 30,930 27,346 31,293 2.8 3.1 2.7 3.1

Grand Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,676 43,456 43,534 43,510 1,337 1,382 1,296 1,424 3.1 3.2 3.0 3.3

Lincoln. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177,095 177,916 180,425 180,312 4,336 5,082 4,303 5,045 2.4 2.9 2.4 2.8

Omaha-Council Bluffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474,499 477,076 481,617 481,351 14,521 15,621 13,934 15,499 3.1 3.3 2.9 3.2

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,431,378 1,428,550 1,432,183 1,429,737 94,032 76,783 89,743 75,664 6.6 5.4 6.3 5.3

Carson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,046 24,669 24,799 24,624 1,699 1,375 1,644 1,347 6.8 5.6 6.6 5.5

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise. . . . . . . . 1,050,740 1,048,066 1,053,684 1,050,116 70,736 58,264 67,149 57,335 6.7 5.6 6.4 5.5

Reno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232,750 234,128 231,994 234,843 13,397 10,621 12,944 10,512 5.8 4.5 5.6 4.5

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736,887 750,006 738,395 749,416 22,307 19,618 21,514 17,453 3.0 2.6 2.9 2.3

Dover-Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,926 82,982 82,379 83,479 2,208 2,002 2,167 1,791 2.7 2.4 2.6 2.1

Manchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,886 116,871 115,011 116,896 3,436 3,019 3,325 2,683 3.0 2.6 2.9 2.3

Portsmouth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,434 75,533 73,613 75,291 1,921 1,791 1,828 1,655 2.6 2.4 2.5 2.2

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,501,453 4,543,411 4,537,695 4,536,158 228,213 237,947 216,593 220,679 5.1 5.2 4.8 4.9

Atlantic City-Hammonton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126,723 124,331 124,651 122,827 9,730 8,984 9,417 9,131 7.7 7.2 7.6 7.4

Ocean City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,894 52,411 46,199 47,081 3,403 3,441 3,879 3,813 6.6 6.6 8.4 8.1

Trenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197,166 199,537 200,165 198,998 8,808 9,319 8,271 8,534 4.5 4.7 4.1 4.3

Vineland-Bridgeton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,646 66,329 67,058 65,700 4,938 4,931 4,702 4,569 7.4 7.4 7.0 7.0

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913,291 923,175 918,660 928,567 58,552 61,466 58,327 60,306 6.4 6.7 6.3 6.5

Albuquerque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412,108 419,651 413,897 420,973 25,099 25,917 25,003 25,438 6.1 6.2 6.0 6.0

Farmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,810 55,996 55,820 56,790 3,914 4,888 3,853 4,699 7.1 8.7 6.9 8.3

Las Cruces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,573 93,637 93,301 94,685 6,397 6,420 6,344 6,186 6.9 6.9 6.8 6.5

Santa Fe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,432 72,095 72,143 73,358 3,821 3,853 3,864 3,819 5.4 5.3 5.4 5.2

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,602,631 9,628,422 9,668,199 9,623,563 458,211 486,668 457,318 476,427 4.8 5.1 4.7 5.0

Albany-Schenectady-Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443,778 441,994 447,343 442,653 19,159 18,441 18,317 17,779 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.0

Binghamton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,163 107,649 109,869 107,515 5,872 5,585 5,705 5,507 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.1

Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls. . . . . 549,680 548,166 549,533 549,802 28,310 27,242 26,747 26,926 5.2 5.0 4.9 4.9

Elmira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,699 37,012 37,614 37,059 2,153 2,021 2,045 1,980 5.7 5.5 5.4 5.3

Glens Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,084 60,705 60,893 60,564 2,745 2,684 2,690 2,644 4.5 4.4 4.4 4.4

Ithaca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,450 57,033 55,693 56,921 2,095 2,118 1,996 2,023 3.8 3.7 3.6 3.6

Kingston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,927 89,186 88,774 89,190 4,039 3,896 3,801 3,751 4.6 4.4 4.3 4.2

New York-Newark-Jersey City. . . . . . . . . . 9,980,321 10,043,324 10,068,742 10,042,266 476,314 519,406 473,411 498,830 4.8 5.2 4.7 5.0

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522,017 520,537 524,257 520,783 25,210 24,518 23,746 23,958 4.8 4.7 4.5 4.6

Syracuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310,749 310,198 312,022 309,841 15,562 14,855 14,723 14,329 5.0 4.8 4.7 4.6

Utica-Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,939 130,020 131,767 129,490 6,523 6,161 6,274 5,958 5.0 4.7 4.8 4.6

Watertown-Fort Drum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,551 47,120 46,035 46,446 2,575 2,563 2,565 2,629 5.5 5.4 5.6 5.7

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,755,224 4,854,750 4,786,211 4,897,108 256,616 231,057 260,600 237,804 5.4 4.8 5.4 4.9

Asheville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219,082 225,132 220,046 226,773 9,316 8,623 9,448 8,662 4.3 3.8 4.3 3.8

Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,565 78,227 77,268 78,830 3,843 3,475 3,943 3,522 5.0 4.4 5.1 4.5

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,229,187 1,260,871 1,243,420 1,281,134 63,667 58,545 64,660 58,160 5.2 4.6 5.2 4.5

Durham-Chapel Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280,053 288,689 281,140 290,246 13,232 12,102 13,555 12,212 4.7 4.2 4.8 4.2

Fayetteville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144,508 147,126 145,884 147,779 10,267 8,885 10,450 9,210 7.1 6.0 7.2 6.2

Goldsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,208 54,242 54,188 54,413 3,043 2,925 3,136 3,514 5.7 5.4 5.8 6.5

Greensboro-High Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363,325 371,164 366,508 375,739 20,311 18,156 20,683 18,091 5.6 4.9 5.6 4.8

Greenville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,419 87,920 87,479 88,193 5,073 4,482 5,118 4,981 5.8 5.1 5.9 5.6

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. . . . . . . . . . . . . 166,857 167,002 167,312 167,980 8,918 7,800 8,982 7,830 5.3 4.7 5.4 4.7

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,502 64,590 63,980 64,845 3,656 3,384 3,746 3,400 5.8 5.2 5.9 5.2

New Bern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,930 51,784 51,375 52,053 2,923 2,564 2,957 2,749 5.7 5.0 5.8 5.3

Raleigh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657,724 675,826 661,146 681,763 29,810 27,467 30,529 27,863 4.5 4.1 4.6 4.1

Rocky Mount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,061 66,411 67,849 67,703 5,111 4,676 5,060 4,867 7.7 7.0 7.5 7.2

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

September October Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

September October September October

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

North Carolina - Continued

Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,224 142,516 139,600 142,295 7,260 6,485 7,265 6,465 5.2 4.6 5.2 4.5

Winston-Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317,161 321,737 317,638 323,764 16,393 14,594 16,534 14,519 5.2 4.5 5.2 4.5

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412,703 427,140 412,906 428,444 8,603 10,540 7,962 9,237 2.1 2.5 1.9 2.2

Bismarck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,349 71,591 67,663 72,041 1,277 1,636 1,122 1,397 1.9 2.3 1.7 1.9

Fargo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,535 137,643 132,300 138,588 2,566 2,981 2,250 2,547 2.0 2.2 1.7 1.8

Grand Forks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,993 56,699 55,781 57,191 1,234 1,408 1,063 1,207 2.2 2.5 1.9 2.1

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,667,021 5,732,869 5,703,746 5,716,385 243,270 277,133 243,005 264,423 4.3 4.8 4.3 4.6

Akron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356,920 362,360 362,676 362,511 15,354 17,841 15,794 16,973 4.3 4.9 4.4 4.7

Canton-Massillon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198,530 199,742 199,837 199,919 9,702 10,781 9,817 10,114 4.9 5.4 4.9 5.1

Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,069,941 1,085,842 1,070,481 1,086,578 43,691 46,620 43,713 44,336 4.1 4.3 4.1 4.1

Cleveland-Elyria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,015,720 1,028,930 1,013,298 1,024,773 42,472 50,750 38,981 51,489 4.2 4.9 3.8 5.0

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,034,165 1,047,370 1,046,516 1,048,013 38,981 43,728 39,485 40,841 3.8 4.2 3.8 3.9

Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378,158 385,183 382,594 383,887 16,306 18,281 16,453 17,178 4.3 4.7 4.3 4.5

Lima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,687 49,144 48,271 48,924 2,023 2,434 2,060 2,275 4.2 5.0 4.3 4.7

Mansfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,152 52,458 53,435 52,158 2,588 2,832 2,669 2,697 4.9 5.4 5.0 5.2

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,425 64,470 64,163 63,651 2,819 3,707 2,860 3,013 4.4 5.7 4.5 4.7

Toledo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300,021 304,752 302,168 303,663 13,140 14,973 13,327 14,246 4.4 4.9 4.4 4.7

Weirton-Steubenville1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,662 53,132 52,792 53,050 3,543 3,628 3,427 3,510 6.7 6.8 6.5 6.6

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman. . . . . . . . 249,678 250,658 250,668 249,077 13,130 15,385 13,494 14,804 5.3 6.1 5.4 5.9

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,842,550 1,821,032 1,854,140 1,829,773 74,965 98,138 77,457 89,947 4.1 5.4 4.2 4.9

Lawton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,408 52,100 53,452 52,569 2,104 2,721 2,228 2,497 4.0 5.2 4.2 4.7

Oklahoma City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670,380 662,058 675,948 664,810 23,611 31,442 24,184 28,777 3.5 4.7 3.6 4.3

Tulsa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476,006 469,979 480,984 475,213 19,855 26,340 20,590 24,338 4.2 5.6 4.3 5.1

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,987,029 2,087,905 1,995,937 2,092,696 103,493 102,687 105,083 100,129 5.2 4.9 5.3 4.8

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,812 57,108 55,121 57,430 3,539 3,288 3,617 3,198 6.5 5.8 6.6 5.6

Bend-Redmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,810 92,163 85,599 91,067 4,461 4,311 4,635 4,286 5.2 4.7 5.4 4.7

Corvallis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,583 46,216 45,867 47,377 1,864 1,971 1,805 1,791 4.2 4.3 3.9 3.8

Eugene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,483 178,225 174,021 180,805 9,568 9,657 9,672 9,399 5.6 5.4 5.6 5.2

Grants Pass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,628 35,058 33,716 35,036 2,350 2,247 2,444 2,217 7.0 6.4 7.2 6.3

Medford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,655 103,638 99,323 103,625 5,921 5,851 6,003 5,619 6.0 5.6 6.0 5.4

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. . . . . . . . . . 1,227,524 1,287,608 1,237,579 1,298,233 60,450 61,404 60,941 60,453 4.9 4.8 4.9 4.7

Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192,635 203,175 192,516 202,901 10,372 10,363 10,624 9,966 5.4 5.1 5.5 4.9

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,399,944 6,526,559 6,415,244 6,507,007 296,138 350,660 284,564 350,249 4.6 5.4 4.4 5.4

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . 429,578 433,795 429,487 430,562 20,047 24,210 19,088 22,943 4.7 5.6 4.4 5.3

Altoona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,150 62,308 60,075 61,981 2,630 3,134 2,530 3,198 4.3 5.0 4.2 5.2

Bloomsburg-Berwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,949 43,778 43,083 43,968 1,908 2,108 1,799 2,119 4.4 4.8 4.2 4.8

Chambersburg-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . 76,814 79,985 77,437 79,779 3,334 3,951 3,331 4,070 4.3 4.9 4.3 5.1

East Stroudsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,452 82,285 80,142 81,829 4,539 5,220 4,348 5,162 5.6 6.3 5.4 6.3

Erie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134,639 136,908 134,597 135,718 6,187 8,768 6,140 8,685 4.6 6.4 4.6 6.4

Gettysburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,580 56,036 54,894 55,845 1,878 2,112 1,783 2,157 3.4 3.8 3.2 3.9

Harrisburg-Carlisle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292,736 297,986 292,196 295,935 11,093 13,580 10,658 13,422 3.8 4.6 3.6 4.5

Johnstown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,922 62,029 61,984 62,153 3,342 3,916 3,214 3,956 5.4 6.3 5.2 6.4

Lancaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275,271 279,388 276,220 277,700 9,747 11,501 9,233 11,653 3.5 4.1 3.3 4.2

Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,876 71,168 69,957 70,797 2,693 3,151 2,586 3,194 3.9 4.4 3.7 4.5

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. . . . . . . 3,043,035 3,104,885 3,063,452 3,107,342 149,006 162,549 142,631 159,801 4.9 5.2 4.7 5.1

Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,209,566 1,226,927 1,211,182 1,225,170 56,399 67,967 54,238 67,692 4.7 5.5 4.5 5.5

Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212,660 217,559 213,661 216,774 9,093 10,779 8,621 10,785 4.3 5.0 4.0 5.0

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton. . . . . . . 277,648 280,643 278,635 279,593 14,699 16,589 14,145 16,687 5.3 5.9 5.1 6.0

State College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,264 80,503 80,536 81,805 2,606 3,175 2,504 3,309 3.3 3.9 3.1 4.0

Williamsport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,488 59,925 60,144 59,719 3,318 3,747 3,177 3,687 5.5 6.3 5.3 6.2

York-Hanover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232,843 238,351 232,699 237,004 9,376 10,858 8,936 10,883 4.0 4.6 3.8 4.6

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552,889 554,828 553,739 553,837 28,470 28,392 28,373 26,535 5.1 5.1 5.1 4.8

Providence-Warwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677,744 681,066 679,100 680,163 35,466 33,017 34,707 30,182 5.2 4.8 5.1 4.4

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,251,834 2,297,671 2,261,830 2,298,744 127,250 111,702 127,480 106,069 5.7 4.9 5.6 4.6

Charleston-North Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . 360,798 372,026 361,566 372,345 17,898 15,570 17,449 14,597 5.0 4.2 4.8 3.9

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395,197 405,750 397,930 404,840 20,859 18,767 21,406 17,543 5.3 4.6 5.4 4.3

Florence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,124 95,079 95,397 94,957 6,078 5,213 6,186 4,926 6.4 5.5 6.5 5.2

Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin. . . . . . . . . . . 414,915 421,406 418,675 424,670 20,915 18,600 20,115 17,425 5.0 4.4 4.8 4.1

Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort. . . . 83,434 85,475 83,258 84,085 4,335 3,802 4,089 3,720 5.2 4.4 4.9 4.4

Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185,977 189,203 182,484 183,583 11,626 10,053 11,875 9,989 6.3 5.3 6.5 5.4

Spartanburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,390 153,092 151,548 154,335 8,306 7,248 8,058 6,823 5.5 4.7 5.3 4.4

Sumter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,108 44,331 44,452 44,294 2,906 2,539 2,946 2,426 6.6 5.7 6.6 5.5

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449,835 452,699 453,231 456,102 12,049 10,943 11,320 10,773 2.7 2.4 2.5 2.4

Rapid City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,035 72,874 71,787 73,024 2,055 1,892 1,917 1,873 2.9 2.6 2.7 2.6

Sioux Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,877 147,526 146,307 150,793 3,250 2,912 3,038 2,899 2.3 2.0 2.1 1.9

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,049,764 3,175,531 3,061,405 3,175,327 168,074 159,457 163,038 154,227 5.5 5.0 5.3 4.9

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253,553 262,439 253,461 262,721 13,518 13,578 13,122 13,273 5.3 5.2 5.2 5.1

Clarksville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,183 112,682 108,705 112,862 6,344 6,317 6,230 5,947 5.9 5.6 5.7 5.3

Cleveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,576 59,342 56,980 61,345 2,975 2,835 2,824 2,753 5.4 4.8 5.0 4.5

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,217 63,397 61,550 63,132 3,571 3,268 3,459 3,176 5.8 5.2 5.6 5.0

Johnson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,512 91,692 88,632 91,602 5,286 5,032 5,028 4,865 6.0 5.5 5.7 5.3

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

State and area

Civilian labor force Unemployed

September October Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

September October September October

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

Tennessee - Continued

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136,727 139,745 136,956 138,924 7,515 7,419 7,310 7,320 5.5 5.3 5.3 5.3

Knoxville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404,073 421,879 405,204 422,103 20,607 19,949 19,884 19,334 5.1 4.7 4.9 4.6

Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611,394 625,143 611,841 629,705 37,985 34,689 37,403 34,104 6.2 5.5 6.1 5.4

Morristown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,213 51,582 49,900 52,264 2,993 2,752 2,859 2,649 6.1 5.3 5.7 5.1

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--

Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932,073 980,767 937,745 979,208 41,914 39,320 40,361 37,496 4.5 4.0 4.3 3.8

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,067,230 13,416,525 13,114,424 13,334,556 586,777 661,895 582,556 584,778 4.5 4.9 4.4 4.4

Abilene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,941 76,181 74,871 76,005 2,949 3,213 2,875 2,873 3.9 4.2 3.8 3.8

Amarillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,749 131,843 130,484 131,185 4,098 4,593 4,056 4,141 3.2 3.5 3.1 3.2

Austin-Round Rock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,072,494 1,108,888 1,080,815 1,105,484 35,918 39,133 35,653 35,325 3.3 3.5 3.3 3.2

Beaumont-Port Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175,208 178,698 176,550 177,287 11,736 12,915 11,820 11,082 6.7 7.2 6.7 6.3

Brownsville-Harlingen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162,921 168,176 162,958 166,528 11,045 12,556 10,907 10,996 6.8 7.5 6.7 6.6

College Station-Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,201 127,076 123,473 127,063 4,257 4,760 4,212 4,289 3.5 3.7 3.4 3.4

Corpus Christi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207,202 212,695 208,420 211,757 10,900 13,281 10,980 11,948 5.3 6.2 5.3 5.6

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . 3,595,184 3,742,404 3,610,389 3,726,196 144,353 151,859 142,921 135,729 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.6

El Paso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344,998 355,544 346,594 353,974 17,772 18,906 17,656 16,987 5.2 5.3 5.1 4.8

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land. . . 3,247,882 3,318,041 3,258,399 3,296,157 154,954 190,391 154,263 166,963 4.8 5.7 4.7 5.1

Killeen-Temple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,861 174,737 170,698 173,427 7,937 8,442 7,874 7,517 4.6 4.8 4.6 4.3

Laredo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,394 116,183 112,811 116,232 5,298 5,758 5,313 5,099 4.7 5.0 4.7 4.4

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,978 102,600 100,331 101,783 5,281 6,814 5,213 5,817 5.3 6.6 5.2 5.7

Lubbock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154,224 157,181 154,462 156,159 5,309 5,678 5,189 5,053 3.4 3.6 3.4 3.2

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . 328,693 338,493 329,705 335,085 25,313 26,898 24,492 22,586 7.7 7.9 7.4 6.7

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,072 90,102 88,879 89,598 3,285 4,069 3,362 3,515 3.7 4.5 3.8 3.9

Odessa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,315 79,253 78,174 78,394 3,986 5,195 4,086 4,443 5.1 6.6 5.2 5.7

San Angelo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,869 56,630 54,964 56,142 2,287 2,589 2,295 2,330 4.2 4.6 4.2 4.2

San Antonio-New Braunfels. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,100,847 1,129,958 1,105,544 1,121,499 42,110 45,878 41,693 41,281 3.8 4.1 3.8 3.7

Sherman-Denison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,210 61,642 60,595 61,432 2,380 2,450 2,358 2,190 4.0 4.0 3.9 3.6

Texarkana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,881 65,447 64,787 64,884 3,081 3,268 3,016 2,843 4.7 5.0 4.7 4.4

Tyler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,834 105,185 103,052 105,020 4,686 5,262 4,634 4,636 4.6 5.0 4.5 4.4

Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,197 51,087 49,239 50,601 2,168 2,824 2,192 2,491 4.4 5.5 4.5 4.9

Waco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,500 122,701 118,731 121,455 4,874 5,306 4,761 4,761 4.1 4.3 4.0 3.9

Wichita Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,385 64,647 64,732 64,348 2,873 2,955 2,871 2,641 4.5 4.6 4.4 4.1

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,469,003 1,503,819 1,473,640 1,513,045 47,280 44,020 47,435 47,097 3.2 2.9 3.2 3.1

Logan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,340 69,209 68,045 69,901 1,870 1,737 1,827 1,828 2.8 2.5 2.7 2.6

Ogden-Clearfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307,045 316,404 308,978 318,213 10,295 9,337 10,227 10,083 3.4 3.0 3.3 3.2

Provo-Orem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275,260 281,267 275,419 282,964 8,066 7,647 7,966 8,008 2.9 2.7 2.9 2.8

St. George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,371 67,667 65,279 68,070 2,277 2,074 2,306 2,243 3.5 3.1 3.5 3.3

Salt Lake City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617,859 630,608 620,384 637,272 18,775 17,507 18,942 18,809 3.0 2.8 3.1 3.0

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343,470 343,154 343,193 343,529 12,767 11,824 10,460 9,127 3.7 3.4 3.0 2.7

Burlington-South Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . 125,174 125,950 125,515 125,676 3,878 3,688 3,107 2,820 3.1 2.9 2.5 2.2

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,203,877 4,218,301 4,221,613 4,245,351 174,284 169,396 169,890 174,634 4.1 4.0 4.0 4.1

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford. . . . . 92,016 91,625 92,034 91,975 3,804 4,078 3,861 4,217 4.1 4.5 4.2 4.6

Charlottesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,097 118,329 115,256 118,145 4,149 4,060 4,129 4,262 3.6 3.4 3.6 3.6

Harrisonburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,686 63,366 63,596 63,221 2,614 2,523 2,608 2,660 4.1 4.0 4.1 4.2

Lynchburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,015 120,363 122,533 121,088 5,475 5,417 5,363 5,568 4.5 4.5 4.4 4.6

Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656,043 665,339 666,730 672,970 28,594 27,413 27,558 27,951 4.4 4.1 4.1 4.2

Roanoke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157,417 157,549 157,990 158,631 6,448 6,219 6,247 6,443 4.1 3.9 4.0 4.1

Staunton-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,283 57,160 58,063 57,203 2,309 2,257 2,268 2,393 4.0 3.9 3.9 4.2

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News. . . 830,561 826,681 832,766 831,473 38,098 37,888 37,539 38,411 4.6 4.6 4.5 4.6

Winchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,966 70,191 69,086 70,423 2,642 2,488 2,547 2,599 3.8 3.5 3.7 3.7

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,539,460 3,663,383 3,561,952 3,687,960 184,904 186,236 189,562 186,226 5.2 5.1 5.3 5.0

Bellingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,524 103,361 102,540 105,389 5,585 6,037 5,629 6,253 5.6 5.8 5.5 5.9

Bremerton-Silverdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,828 116,167 115,900 118,303 5,711 6,596 5,860 6,807 5.0 5.7 5.1 5.8

Kennewick-Richland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,984 135,676 130,748 135,528 7,257 7,983 7,578 8,233 5.5 5.9 5.8 6.1

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,774 45,509 44,355 45,907 3,100 3,229 3,097 3,285 7.1 7.1 7.0 7.2

Mount Vernon-Anacortes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,382 58,273 57,160 58,962 3,408 3,661 3,428 3,783 6.0 6.3 6.0 6.4

Olympia-Tumwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,160 127,304 125,995 129,833 6,717 7,240 6,844 7,484 5.4 5.7 5.4 5.8

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,968,332 2,046,273 1,972,909 2,050,222 96,163 90,546 97,907 86,950 4.9 4.4 5.0 4.2

Spokane-Spokane Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246,495 256,167 250,908 261,532 14,509 15,110 14,741 15,468 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.9

Walla Walla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,242 29,549 30,686 31,117 1,453 1,534 1,438 1,577 5.0 5.2 4.7 5.1

Wenatchee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,442 67,359 65,800 66,551 2,801 3,235 3,063 3,413 4.3 4.8 4.7 5.1

Yakima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,583 131,951 128,715 131,547 7,043 7,572 7,945 8,294 5.5 5.7 6.2 6.3

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784,441 794,380 785,475 800,977 45,979 42,038 43,716 44,739 5.9 5.3 5.6 5.6

Beckley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,000 46,934 46,704 46,980 3,137 2,887 3,065 3,071 6.7 6.2 6.6 6.5

Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,999 98,625 98,296 99,255 5,619 5,272 5,408 5,612 5.7 5.3 5.5 5.7

Huntington-Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146,873 149,880 147,619 150,394 8,378 8,645 7,766 8,516 5.7 5.8 5.3 5.7

Morgantown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,132 67,870 67,176 68,855 2,889 2,724 2,696 2,904 4.4 4.0 4.0 4.2

Parkersburg-Vienna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,581 39,429 39,714 39,805 2,303 2,044 2,134 2,194 5.8 5.2 5.4 5.5

Wheeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,574 65,630 66,132 66,111 3,883 3,970 3,710 3,957 5.9 6.0 5.6 6.0

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,090,716 3,136,247 3,104,566 3,134,516 122,240 109,338 122,057 109,924 4.0 3.5 3.9 3.5

Appleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,539 130,590 129,619 131,120 4,273 3,923 4,241 3,982 3.3 3.0 3.3 3.0

Eau Claire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,295 92,249 91,551 92,721 3,154 2,756 3,141 2,839 3.5 3.0 3.4 3.1

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

September October Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

September October September October

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

Wisconsin - Continued

Fond du Lac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,244 57,850 57,589 58,071 1,948 1,663 1,939 1,676 3.4 2.9 3.4 2.9

Green Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,369 173,617 170,857 173,820 6,147 5,547 6,117 5,614 3.6 3.2 3.6 3.2

Janesville-Beloit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,652 86,729 83,692 86,729 3,799 3,385 3,763 3,346 4.5 3.9 4.5 3.9

La Crosse-Onalaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,852 77,975 78,155 78,692 2,529 2,395 2,567 2,427 3.3 3.1 3.3 3.1

Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376,579 383,549 379,617 384,456 11,293 9,969 11,140 10,490 3.0 2.6 2.9 2.7

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis. . . . . . . 821,479 829,063 827,282 828,449 36,855 33,461 37,076 32,991 4.5 4.0 4.5 4.0

Oshkosh-Neenah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,051 91,865 91,870 92,246 3,387 2,938 3,384 3,009 3.7 3.2 3.7 3.3

Racine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,777 99,579 98,868 99,063 4,913 4,421 4,877 4,292 5.0 4.4 4.9 4.3

Sheboygan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,234 62,434 61,038 61,473 2,041 1,885 2,006 1,950 3.3 3.0 3.3 3.2

Wausau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,049 74,373 74,117 74,868 2,548 2,259 2,517 2,301 3.5 3.0 3.4 3.1

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305,097 300,824 304,839 302,944 11,235 14,022 11,948 13,914 3.7 4.7 3.9 4.6

Casper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,952 40,776 42,224 41,432 1,974 2,696 2,029 2,591 4.7 6.6 4.8 6.3

Cheyenne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,148 46,970 48,659 48,035 1,684 1,755 1,749 1,811 3.5 3.7 3.6 3.8

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,129,581 1,129,793 1,150,518 1,112,969 137,518 147,595 162,851 139,369 12.2 13.1 14.2 12.5

Aguadilla-Isabela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,311 90,131 91,595 89,605 13,205 14,817 15,983 14,500 15.0 16.4 17.4 16.2

Arecibo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,767 52,543 54,380 51,895 7,226 7,823 9,023 7,730 13.7 14.9 16.6 14.9

Guayama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,457 22,445 23,059 21,852 4,056 4,394 4,881 4,071 18.1 19.6 21.2 18.6

Mayaguez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,227 29,722 29,826 29,179 3,867 4,517 4,539 4,201 13.2 15.2 15.2 14.4

Ponce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,385 98,848 102,047 97,039 16,354 16,541 19,350 15,501 16.5 16.7 19.0 16.0

San German. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,631 36,640 37,739 36,123 5,014 6,011 6,050 5,739 13.7 16.4 16.0 15.9

San Juan-Carolina-Caguas. . . . . . . . . . . . 755,668 753,519 763,200 740,147 78,961 84,395 92,609 79,304 10.4 11.2 12.1 10.7

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

September October Number Percent of labor force

2015 2016 2015 2016p

September October September October

2015 2016 2015 2016p 2015 2016 2015 2016p

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,917,335 19,435,024 18,995,347 19,463,437 1,063,374 1,028,577 1,094,641 1,031,052 5.6 5.3 5.8 5.3

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . 6,579,482 6,788,684 6,595,274 6,785,543 375,151 335,398 370,412 328,186 5.7 4.9 5.6 4.8

Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine. . . . . . . . . 1,591,935 1,638,431 1,602,375 1,643,578 66,497 66,003 69,928 67,164 4.2 4.0 4.4 4.1

Los Angeles-Long

Beach-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,987,547 5,150,253 4,992,899 5,141,965 308,654 269,395 300,484 261,022 6.2 5.2 6.0 5.1

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . 2,506,056 2,572,729 2,517,869 2,586,311 98,103 98,696 102,805 100,147 3.9 3.8 4.1 3.9

Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley. . . . . . . . 1,371,131 1,406,853 1,377,452 1,414,011 61,281 61,398 64,026 62,044 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.4

San Francisco-Redwood City-South

San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994,056 1,020,749 998,741 1,025,761 32,184 32,566 33,892 33,254 3.2 3.2 3.4 3.2

San Rafael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,869 145,127 141,676 146,539 4,638 4,732 4,887 4,849 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.3

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387,821 389,882 390,409 399,144 26,332 25,377 25,983 24,607 6.8 6.5 6.7 6.2

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . 3,269,076 3,293,497 3,291,298 3,333,327 140,951 126,540 139,006 131,537 4.3 3.8 4.2 3.9

Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville3.. . 676,212 680,344 680,270 687,421 27,504 22,315 27,410 23,591 4.1 3.3 4.0 3.4

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2.. . 2,592,864 2,613,153 2,611,028 2,645,906 113,447 104,225 111,596 107,946 4.4 4.0 4.3 4.1

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,696,612 9,870,136 9,698,746 9,887,458 513,732 492,692 495,501 488,986 5.3 5.0 5.1 4.9

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm

Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,017,107 3,046,034 3,031,755 3,067,013 166,701 157,619 161,753 154,964 5.5 5.2 5.3 5.1

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano

Beach-Deerfield Beach. . . . . . . . . 996,865 1,023,387 996,831 1,021,629 48,915 47,112 47,137 47,287 4.9 4.6 4.7 4.6

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall. . . . . . . 1,325,898 1,319,008 1,338,131 1,339,329 81,929 74,133 80,539 71,911 6.2 5.6 6.0 5.4

West Palm Beach-Boca

Raton-Delray Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . 694,344 703,639 696,793 706,055 35,857 36,374 34,077 35,766 5.2 5.2 4.9 5.1

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,485,397 6,566,619 6,529,418 6,561,428 345,322 355,724 366,098 364,025 5.3 5.4 5.6 5.5

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin2. . . . . . . . . . . 4,855,965 4,934,935 4,887,598 4,930,120 248,215 257,231 259,280 272,338 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.5

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington

Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,738,481 3,797,621 3,763,177 3,794,855 190,723 198,375 198,353 217,567 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.7

Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323,477 326,905 326,090 328,083 17,065 16,866 18,413 15,965 5.3 5.2 5.6 4.9

Gary3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335,345 346,642 338,518 345,570 18,293 19,561 18,674 17,471 5.5 5.6 5.5 5.1

Lake County-Kenosha County2. . . . 458,662 463,767 459,813 461,612 22,134 22,429 23,840 21,335 4.8 4.8 5.2 4.6

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,542,718 3,590,161 3,557,973 3,584,892 172,206 118,770 158,980 97,878 4.9 3.3 4.5 2.7

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua2. . . . . . . . . 2,604,584 2,644,354 2,620,948 2,646,581 116,168 81,467 107,258 67,806 4.5 3.1 4.1 2.6

Boston-Cambridge-Newton. . . . . . . . 1,541,034 1,565,020 1,551,530 1,567,429 66,079 45,526 60,997 37,781 4.3 2.9 3.9 2.4

Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton. . . . . . 104,009 105,169 105,005 105,290 5,765 4,017 5,189 3,215 5.5 3.8 4.9 3.1

Framingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,025 155,147 153,656 155,292 6,030 4,260 5,560 3,543 3.9 2.7 3.6 2.3

Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury

Town2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,800 114,855 112,485 114,698 4,844 3,495 4,536 3,001 4.3 3.0 4.0 2.6

Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem2.. . 94,746 94,712 95,423 94,375 6,263 4,283 5,751 3,590 6.6 4.5 6.0 3.8

Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford2. . . . . . . 181,065 183,284 181,563 182,942 8,943 6,320 8,284 5,219 4.9 3.4 4.6 2.9

Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead. . . . . . . . . 82,425 83,179 82,744 82,978 4,154 2,871 3,805 2,378 5.0 3.5 4.6 2.9

Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165,912 169,738 166,720 170,445 5,657 4,898 5,447 4,340 3.4 2.9 3.3 2.5

Peabody-Salem-Beverly. . . . . . . . . . . 89,053 90,170 89,944 90,311 4,107 2,804 3,763 2,305 4.6 3.1 4.2 2.6

Taunton-Middleborough-Norton. . . . 81,515 83,080 81,878 82,821 4,326 2,993 3,926 2,434 5.3 3.6 4.8 2.9

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,723,231 4,860,588 4,754,223 4,858,107 216,640 214,153 223,097 224,961 4.6 4.4 4.7 4.6

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,997,382 2,088,499 2,010,141 2,078,802 112,407 112,339 122,750 111,928 5.6 5.4 6.1 5.4

Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . 749,291 783,217 754,575 779,677 50,000 51,079 55,912 51,676 6.7 6.5 7.4 6.6

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills. . . . . . 1,248,091 1,305,283 1,255,566 1,299,122 62,408 61,260 66,837 60,251 5.0 4.7 5.3 4.6

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,602,631 9,628,422 9,668,199 9,623,563 458,211 486,668 457,318 476,427 4.8 5.1 4.7 5.0

New York-Newark-Jersey City2. . . . . . 9,980,321 10,043,324 10,068,742 10,042,266 476,314 519,406 473,411 498,830 4.8 5.2 4.7 5.0

Dutchess County-Putnam County.. . 192,845 194,965 194,809 195,543 8,417 8,174 7,904 7,904 4.4 4.2 4.1 4.0

Nassau County-Suffolk County. . . . . 1,464,135 1,476,060 1,471,561 1,474,000 63,527 61,671 60,633 60,480 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1

Newark3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,246,478 1,257,729 1,258,856 1,256,127 62,528 66,086 59,211 60,983 5.0 5.3 4.7 4.9

New York-Jersey City-White

Plains2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,076,863 7,114,570 7,143,516 7,116,596 341,842 383,475 345,663 369,463 4.8 5.4 4.8 5.2

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,399,944 6,526,559 6,415,244 6,507,007 296,138 350,660 284,564 350,249 4.6 5.4 4.4 5.4

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington2. . . . 3,043,035 3,104,885 3,063,452 3,107,342 149,006 162,549 142,631 159,801 4.9 5.2 4.7 5.1

Camden3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632,683 638,782 638,401 639,499 33,351 34,269 31,408 31,349 5.3 5.4 4.9 4.9

Montgomery County-Bucks

County-Chester County. . . . . . . . . 1,051,268 1,076,343 1,055,338 1,074,363 39,302 46,293 37,622 46,878 3.7 4.3 3.6 4.4

Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984,583 1,012,144 989,708 1,013,318 57,449 65,063 55,051 64,954 5.8 6.4 5.6 6.4

Wilmington3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374,501 377,616 380,005 380,162 18,904 16,924 18,550 16,620 5.0 4.5 4.9 4.4

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,067,230 13,416,525 13,114,424 13,334,556 586,777 661,895 582,556 584,778 4.5 4.9 4.4 4.4

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . 3,595,184 3,742,404 3,610,389 3,726,196 144,353 151,859 142,921 135,729 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.6

Dallas-Plano-Irving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,409,776 2,521,541 2,424,643 2,513,027 94,712 100,448 93,794 89,913 3.9 4.0 3.9 3.6

Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,185,408 1,220,863 1,185,746 1,213,169 49,641 51,411 49,127 45,816 4.2 4.2 4.1 3.8

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,539,460 3,663,383 3,561,952 3,687,960 184,904 186,236 189,562 186,226 5.2 5.1 5.3 5.0

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,968,332 2,046,273 1,972,909 2,050,222 96,163 90,546 97,907 86,950 4.9 4.4 5.0 4.2

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett. . . . . . . . . . . 1,579,726 1,644,271 1,579,458 1,642,936 73,667 66,224 74,879 62,024 4.7 4.0 4.7 3.8

Tacoma-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388,606 402,002 393,451 407,286 22,496 24,322 23,028 24,926 5.8 6.1 5.9 6.1

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

September October

Change from

October 2015 to October

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,951.9 1,970.5 1,957.9 1,982.4 24.5 1.3

Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.9 46.3 46.2 46.4 0.2 0.4

Auburn-Opelika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.6 63.9 62.1 64.0 1.9 3.1

Birmingham-Hoover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515.9 521.2 517.1 521.6 4.5 0.9

Daphne-Fairhope-Foley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.4 72.2 69.9 71.8 1.9 2.7

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.7 54.4 53.7 54.4 0.7 1.3

Dothan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.0 57.1 56.9 57.6 0.7 1.2

Florence-Muscle Shoals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.3 56.6 56.4 57.0 0.6 1.1

Gadsden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.9 38.0 37.8 38.1 0.3 0.8

Huntsville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221.2 223.0 221.7 224.9 3.2 1.4

Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176.5 177.7 176.9 179.4 2.5 1.4

Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169.9 171.9 170.5 172.2 1.7 1.0

Tuscaloosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.8 107.6 106.1 107.9 1.8 1.7

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351.8 349.1 332.9 333.1 0.2 0.1

Anchorage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.2 183.4 181.3 180.7 -0.6 -0.3

Fairbanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.9 39.6 38.3 37.9 -0.4 -1.0

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,646.4 2,705.4 2,683.8 2,733.4 49.6 1.8

Flagstaff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.5 68.1 67.6 68.1 0.5 0.7

Lake Havasu City-Kingman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.4 47.3 47.8 48.0 0.2 0.4

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,920.8 1,967.4 1,952.5 1,990.3 37.8 1.9

Prescott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.9 65.3 62.7 65.7 3.0 4.8

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

Tucson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369.6 376.5 373.6 380.6 7.0 1.9

Yuma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.3 53.2 53.6 54.2 0.6 1.1

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,221.4 1,233.5 1,226.1 1,237.8 11.7 1.0

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239.7 244.3 241.0 244.8 3.8 1.6

Fort Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113.8 114.4 114.5 115.0 0.5 0.4

Hot Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.7 38.3 37.5 38.0 0.5 1.3

Jonesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.1 56.8 55.3 56.9 1.6 2.9

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353.3 355.8 355.2 357.1 1.9 0.5

Pine Bluff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.8 33.2 34.1 33.5 -0.6 -1.8

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,151.0 16,519.5 16,290.8 16,658.4 367.6 2.3

Bakersfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257.3 261.9 261.0 264.1 3.1 1.2

Chico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.6 80.0 79.6 81.1 1.5 1.9

El Centro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.0 53.2 52.3 53.7 1.4 2.7

Fresno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327.8 335.7 332.7 335.9 3.2 1.0

Hanford-Corcoran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.8 38.8 39.1 38.4 -0.7 -1.8

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,840.9 5,958.8 5,895.1 6,006.3 111.2 1.9

Madera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.5 38.7 36.4 38.6 2.2 6.0

Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.2 67.2 65.8 66.9 1.1 1.7

Modesto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170.2 174.7 167.5 174.0 6.5 3.9

Napa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.7 74.9 73.4 75.9 2.5 3.4

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294.0 297.5 297.4 301.8 4.4 1.5

Redding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.4 64.5 64.8 64.8 0.0 0.0

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,349.7 1,380.6 1,369.6 1,394.2 24.6 1.8

Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921.5 949.1 927.7 951.8 24.1 2.6

Salinas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.7 135.7 136.6 136.4 -0.2 -0.1

San Diego-Carlsbad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,392.1 1,422.8 1,402.2 1,431.7 29.5 2.1

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,277.7 2,334.8 2,296.7 2,354.9 58.2 2.5

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,049.0 1,087.4 1,059.6 1,093.8 34.2 3.2

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113.6 116.2 115.7 118.6 2.9 2.5

Santa Cruz-Watsonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.0 99.9 99.0 101.8 2.8 2.8

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.1 184.0 183.2 187.3 4.1 2.2

Santa Rosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199.7 204.5 199.8 203.8 4.0 2.0

Stockton-Lodi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223.5 227.0 223.6 227.1 3.5 1.6

Vallejo-Fairfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133.4 136.9 134.9 138.0 3.1 2.3

Visalia-Porterville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.3 122.1 119.4 122.5 3.1 2.6

Yuba City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.1 41.7 42.0 41.8 -0.2 -0.5

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,558.0 2,625.8 2,564.5 2,628.7 64.2 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

September October

Change from

October 2015 to October

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

Colorado - Continued

Boulder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182.9 187.5 184.2 189.3 5.1 2.8

Colorado Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275.6 279.3 275.7 279.1 3.4 1.2

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,409.2 1,455.9 1,410.3 1,460.9 50.6 3.6

Fort Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158.1 162.2 158.7 162.6 3.9 2.5

Grand Junction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.3 62.9 62.3 62.8 0.5 0.8

Greeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.6 103.7 101.9 105.0 3.1 3.0

Pueblo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 62.5 61.6 62.9 1.3 2.1

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,674.0 1,682.4 1,687.7 1,690.6 2.9 0.2

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409.1 413.1 412.0 412.6 0.6 0.1

Danbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.9 78.7 78.3 79.0 0.7 0.9

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570.7 575.8 574.5 580.0 5.5 1.0

New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.2 283.2 282.8 283.9 1.1 0.4

Norwich-New London-Westerly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.7 129.1 129.1 128.7 -0.4 -0.3

Waterbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.5 67.3 66.4 67.7 1.3 2.0

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450.9 461.4 454.4 462.6 8.2 1.8

Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.3 70.3 69.5 70.8 1.3 1.9

Salisbury1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159.8 164.4 155.6 159.6 4.0 2.6

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766.6 781.5 772.0 785.6 13.6 1.8

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,180.9 3,257.5 3,206.6 3,276.8 70.2 2.2

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,100.7 8,378.5 8,182.0 8,440.3 258.3 3.2

Cape Coral-Fort Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243.5 251.9 248.1 257.1 9.0 3.6

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107.4 108.1 106.3 107.3 1.0 0.9

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188.1 197.1 189.8 199.4 9.6 5.1

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.9 138.5 138.6 139.4 0.8 0.6

Homosassa Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.6 32.9 33.1 33.2 0.1 0.3

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650.9 682.5 655.3 679.8 24.5 3.7

Lakeland-Winter Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208.6 211.7 210.4 212.6 2.2 1.0

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,507.1 2,565.9 2,532.3 2,583.3 51.0 2.0

Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.8 136.1 134.2 138.4 4.2 3.1

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.6 289.6 284.0 295.5 11.5 4.0

Ocala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.7 99.3 98.5 99.6 1.1 1.1

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,162.9 1,216.9 1,173.7 1,221.1 47.4 4.0

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201.5 205.4 202.4 206.1 3.7 1.8

Panama City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.6 83.2 81.8 83.0 1.2 1.5

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168.2 171.7 168.6 172.3 3.7 2.2

Port St. Lucie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.9 140.2 139.0 140.8 1.8 1.3

Punta Gorda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.0 46.4 45.7 47.0 1.3 2.8

Sebastian-Vero Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.9 48.9 48.6 49.4 0.8 1.6

Sebring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.5 25.3 25.0 25.6 0.6 2.4

Tallahassee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.9 177.2 175.4 178.3 2.9 1.7

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,251.6 1,283.5 1,264.0 1,296.6 32.6 2.6

The Villages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.1 27.0 26.5 27.3 0.8 3.0

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,284.1 4,393.4 4,334.4 4,428.1 93.7 2.2

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.3 62.6 62.1 63.3 1.2 1.9

Athens-Clarke County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.7 96.5 93.4 96.2 2.8 3.0

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,592.6 2,668.0 2,623.2 2,693.6 70.4 2.7

Augusta-Richmond County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228.1 230.3 229.1 231.5 2.4 1.0

Brunswick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.4 43.2 42.6 42.8 0.2 0.5

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.9 123.1 122.2 122.7 0.5 0.4

Dalton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.5 68.5 68.6 68.2 -0.4 -0.6

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.8 86.8 85.6 87.5 1.9 2.2

Hinesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.7 19.7 19.9 19.7 -0.2 -1.0

Macon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.5 104.1 103.2 104.8 1.6 1.6

Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.1 40.8 40.5 40.9 0.4 1.0

Savannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.9 178.7 174.4 179.0 4.6 2.6

Valdosta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.3 55.9 55.8 56.4 0.6 1.1

Warner Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.7 70.8 70.7 70.8 0.1 0.1

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635.5 652.6 642.5 656.7 14.2 2.2

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

September October

Change from

October 2015 to October

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

Hawaii - Continued

Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.2 75.1 73.6 75.3 1.7 2.3

Urban Honolulu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466.7 479.4 473.8 483.3 9.5 2.0

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683.0 703.2 689.5 704.0 14.5 2.1

Boise City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295.8 304.8 297.1 305.2 8.1 2.7

Coeur d’Alene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.0 63.4 60.8 62.2 1.4 2.3

Idaho Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.1 64.0 63.4 64.6 1.2 1.9

Lewiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.9 29.0 27.9 29.0 1.1 3.9

Pocatello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.6 35.7 36.0 36.4 0.4 1.1

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,008.9 6,055.7 6,059.3 6,090.0 30.7 0.5

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.0 93.9 96.4 95.1 -1.3 -1.3

Carbondale-Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.5 57.7 59.5 58.2 -1.3 -2.2

Champaign-Urbana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110.4 112.2 112.0 113.6 1.6 1.4

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,620.8 4,677.0 4,659.6 4,698.3 38.7 0.8

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.4 29.2 29.4 29.4 0.0 0.0

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184.3 180.5 182.8 181.5 -1.3 -0.7

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.0 51.5 52.4 51.4 -1.0 -1.9

Kankakee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.4 45.8 45.5 46.2 0.7 1.5

Peoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179.0 176.8 179.3 177.6 -1.7 -0.9

Rockford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153.3 155.7 153.8 155.8 2.0 1.3

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.5 115.8 115.0 116.1 1.1 1.0

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,068.7 3,103.7 3,082.2 3,111.5 29.3 1.0

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.2 77.1 77.2 77.5 0.3 0.4

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.1 53.3 53.0 53.9 0.9 1.7

Elkhart-Goshen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.8 126.7 130.4 127.2 -3.2 -2.5

Evansville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158.3 157.0 158.7 157.0 -1.7 -1.1

Fort Wayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220.7 225.0 221.9 225.6 3.7 1.7

Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,027.1 1,046.8 1,029.2 1,044.3 15.1 1.5

Kokomo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.8 41.1 40.7 41.6 0.9 2.2

Lafayette-West Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.1 105.9 104.1 106.6 2.5 2.4

Michigan City-La Porte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.4 41.8 41.9 41.9 0.0 0.0

Muncie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.5 52.3 52.8 52.2 -0.6 -1.1

South Bend-Mishawaka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.8 142.8 143.1 142.6 -0.5 -0.3

Terre Haute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.8 71.5 71.7 72.2 0.5 0.7

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,567.9 1,591.9 1,583.1 1,600.3 17.2 1.1

Ames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.5 55.1 55.1 55.7 0.6 1.1

Cedar Rapids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.0 144.7 144.3 146.0 1.7 1.2

Des Moines-West Des Moines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350.0 354.5 351.9 356.2 4.3 1.2

Dubuque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.4 61.1 61.1 61.5 0.4 0.7

Iowa City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.4 101.8 100.4 103.2 2.8 2.8

Sioux City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.1 88.5 89.1 87.9 -1.2 -1.3

Waterloo-Cedar Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.3 90.5 92.4 91.5 -0.9 -1.0

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,404.9 1,400.8 1,416.8 1,411.4 -5.4 -0.4

Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.3 54.6 54.9 54.9 0.0 0.0

Manhattan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.9 46.4 47.8 46.8 -1.0 -2.1

Topeka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.5 110.4 112.3 111.0 -1.3 -1.2

Wichita. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295.7 299.1 299.9 301.5 1.6 0.5

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,895.9 1,917.2 1,908.6 1,921.9 13.3 0.7

Bowling Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.2 74.5 73.1 74.7 1.6 2.2

Elizabethtown-Fort Knox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.5 58.1 56.4 57.7 1.3 2.3

Lexington-Fayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273.3 274.4 277.4 276.5 -0.9 -0.3

Louisville/Jefferson County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647.8 661.9 650.7 662.0 11.3 1.7

Owensboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.9 54.4 53.3 54.4 1.1 2.1

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,983.2 1,970.3 1,994.3 1,988.3 -6.0 -0.3

Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.7 63.7 64.0 63.7 -0.3 -0.5

Baton Rouge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406.2 416.0 407.4 422.4 15.0 3.7

Hammond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.0 44.4 44.0 44.2 0.2 0.5

Houma-Thibodaux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.0 93.1 95.7 93.3 -2.4 -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

September October

Change from

October 2015 to October

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

Louisiana - Continued

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212.9 205.6 212.5 205.6 -6.9 -3.2

Lake Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.3 105.4 103.9 106.6 2.7 2.6

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.7 79.2 79.6 80.1 0.5 0.6

New Orleans-Metairie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569.7 569.9 575.3 576.6 1.3 0.2

Shreveport-Bossier City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182.8 182.0 183.4 182.3 -1.1 -0.6

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623.5 624.6 620.1 620.2 0.1 0.0

Bangor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.9 67.3 67.9 68.1 0.2 0.3

Lewiston-Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.6 51.6 51.4 52.3 0.9 1.8

Portland-South Portland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201.2 204.3 200.1 203.1 3.0 1.5

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,672.7 2,715.2 2,695.6 2,725.8 30.2 1.1

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,370.6 1,399.0 1,382.9 1,407.0 24.1 1.7

California-Lexington Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.5 45.0 44.8 45.2 0.4 0.9

Cumberland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.0 39.1 39.4 39.4 0.0 0.0

Hagerstown-Martinsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.1 105.8 104.5 105.9 1.4 1.3

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,514.0 3,595.0 3,542.8 3,613.0 70.2 2.0

Barnstable Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109.1 110.6 105.3 107.0 1.7 1.6

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,657.5 2,709.0 2,680.5 2,727.2 46.7 1.7

Leominster-Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.0 52.0 51.2 52.5 1.3 2.5

New Bedford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.2 67.4 68.2 67.9 -0.3 -0.4

Pittsfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.3 43.0 42.4 42.8 0.4 0.9

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328.5 334.4 333.2 338.8 5.6 1.7

Worcester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279.0 285.2 281.7 287.9 6.2 2.2

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,273.5 4,368.5 4,314.9 4,402.4 87.5 2.0

Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210.7 225.3 220.3 230.9 10.6 4.8

Battle Creek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.0 59.8 59.5 60.2 0.7 1.2

Bay City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.8 36.7 37.2 36.8 -0.4 -1.1

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,946.0 1,986.9 1,955.4 1,997.1 41.7 2.1

Flint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138.8 140.8 140.9 142.1 1.2 0.9

Grand Rapids-Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532.6 545.1 538.7 550.8 12.1 2.2

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.0 54.9 55.7 55.6 -0.1 -0.2

Kalamazoo-Portage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.5 148.9 145.6 150.7 5.1 3.5

Lansing-East Lansing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228.1 232.7 231.8 236.0 4.2 1.8

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.3 38.6 38.2 38.6 0.4 1.0

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.2 43.9 44.1 44.4 0.3 0.7

Muskegon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.9 66.4 63.7 65.6 1.9 3.0

Niles-Benton Harbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.7 63.8 63.0 63.2 0.2 0.3

Saginaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.0 91.6 89.8 91.3 1.5 1.7

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,875.5 2,917.0 2,891.8 2,923.1 31.3 1.1

Duluth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.2 135.1 135.5 135.6 0.1 0.1

Mankato-North Mankato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.1 56.4 57.6 57.8 0.2 0.3

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,942.4 1,980.4 1,955.7 1,982.2 26.5 1.4

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.0 120.3 117.2 120.3 3.1 2.6

St. Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.3 110.8 109.9 111.7 1.8 1.6

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,140.7 1,142.7 1,148.2 1,145.5 -2.7 -0.2

Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153.8 152.6 154.3 153.0 -1.3 -0.8

Hattiesburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.8 64.4 63.3 64.6 1.3 2.1

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275.4 276.6 277.9 278.6 0.7 0.3

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,804.6 2,843.6 2,814.8 2,862.8 48.0 1.7

Cape Girardeau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.3 44.0 44.3 44.1 -0.2 -0.5

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.3 102.1 101.5 103.3 1.8 1.8

Jefferson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.4 77.2 76.8 77.3 0.5 0.7

Joplin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.2 80.2 81.7 80.7 -1.0 -1.2

Kansas City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,048.7 1,060.1 1,053.8 1,065.8 12.0 1.1

St. Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.3 62.7 62.8 63.1 0.3 0.5

St. Louis2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,355.1 1,389.7 1,365.9 1,398.6 32.7 2.4

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208.4 213.3 209.2 217.2 8.0 3.8

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467.9 469.5 465.2 468.6 3.4 0.7

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

September October

Change from

October 2015 to October

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

Montana - Continued

Billings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.3 86.3 85.7 86.4 0.7 0.8

Great Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.2 36.4 36.3 36.4 0.1 0.3

Missoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.9 61.7 60.8 61.6 0.8 1.3

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,010.4 1,019.3 1,022.1 1,024.7 2.6 0.3

Grand Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.4 42.6 42.3 42.5 0.2 0.5

Lincoln. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187.0 188.8 189.6 190.5 0.9 0.5

Omaha-Council Bluffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492.0 497.4 497.5 499.1 1.6 0.3

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,269.8 1,302.0 1,281.7 1,306.6 24.9 1.9

Carson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.2 28.3 28.1 28.3 0.2 0.7

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923.8 945.4 934.3 947.0 12.7 1.4

Reno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215.1 222.0 215.9 222.9 7.0 3.2

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661.1 673.3 664.0 677.7 13.7 2.1

Dover-Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.4 52.7 53.6 54.0 0.4 0.7

Manchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.7 111.4 110.5 111.8 1.3 1.2

Portsmouth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.9 92.2 90.3 91.7 1.4 1.6

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,044.2 4,095.0 4,074.8 4,104.2 29.4 0.7

Atlantic City-Hammonton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.7 130.2 129.3 128.4 -0.9 -0.7

Ocean City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.2 50.5 41.6 43.5 1.9 4.6

Trenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259.8 265.2 264.6 266.2 1.6 0.6

Vineland-Bridgeton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.5 57.9 58.1 57.6 -0.5 -0.9

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827.3 826.3 831.6 828.7 -2.9 -0.3

Albuquerque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382.0 385.8 383.5 385.4 1.9 0.5

Farmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.9 51.1 51.7 51.3 -0.4 -0.8

Las Cruces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.0 71.6 71.8 72.6 0.8 1.1

Santa Fe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.5 63.3 62.9 63.5 0.6 1.0

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,263.3 9,386.7 9,372.8 9,466.9 94.1 1.0

Albany-Schenectady-Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455.8 455.7 462.5 461.8 -0.7 -0.2

Binghamton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.7 102.3 104.9 103.5 -1.4 -1.3

Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560.4 561.4 564.5 569.7 5.2 0.9

Elmira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.7 38.1 39.0 38.6 -0.4 -1.0

Glens Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.9 56.1 56.6 56.9 0.3 0.5

Ithaca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.8 73.4 72.0 74.3 2.3 3.2

Kingston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.9 62.4 62.2 63.2 1.0 1.6

New York-Newark-Jersey City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,347.7 9,523.3 9,467.2 9,602.8 135.6 1.4

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528.3 527.4 534.1 534.5 0.4 0.1

Syracuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318.2 318.8 321.8 322.5 0.7 0.2

Utica-Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127.4 126.8 129.2 127.9 -1.3 -1.0

Watertown-Fort Drum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.4 44.0 42.9 43.6 0.7 1.6

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,271.1 4,354.0 4,298.7 4,379.6 80.9 1.9

Asheville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183.9 188.1 184.7 189.1 4.4 2.4

Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.4 60.2 60.0 60.4 0.4 0.7

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,108.4 1,133.3 1,121.6 1,149.5 27.9 2.5

Durham-Chapel Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296.8 305.1 297.5 305.7 8.2 2.8

Fayetteville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127.4 129.9 128.6 129.5 0.9 0.7

Goldsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.2 42.5 42.5 42.1 -0.4 -0.9

Greensboro-High Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356.9 363.6 359.9 367.3 7.4 2.1

Greenville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.9 78.8 78.6 78.3 -0.3 -0.4

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147.7 147.0 147.8 147.6 -0.2 -0.1

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.1 49.6 49.4 49.7 0.3 0.6

New Bern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.3 44.8 44.6 44.9 0.3 0.7

Raleigh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587.8 600.8 590.1 603.8 13.7 2.3

Rocky Mount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.0 56.8 58.4 57.7 -0.7 -1.2

Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121.6 122.9 121.0 122.8 1.8 1.5

Winston-Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259.1 261.2 258.8 261.6 2.8 1.1

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452.9 445.3 456.3 448.4 -7.9 -1.7

Bismarck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.9 75.3 75.9 76.0 0.1 0.1

Fargo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.5 142.4 141.9 143.6 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

September October

Change from

October 2015 to October

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

North Dakota - Continued

Grand Forks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.5 57.7 58.4 57.9 -0.5 -0.9

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,449.4 5,525.9 5,497.2 5,547.1 49.9 0.9

Akron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340.4 346.6 346.0 348.5 2.5 0.7

Canton-Massillon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.1 173.7 172.7 175.1 2.4 1.4

Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,069.1 1,085.3 1,070.1 1,090.9 20.8 1.9

Cleveland-Elyria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,044.4 1,062.0 1,056.9 1,067.3 10.4 1.0

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,045.9 1,064.6 1,057.0 1,071.6 14.6 1.4

Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379.6 388.6 383.7 389.4 5.7 1.5

Lima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.7 54.4 53.3 54.5 1.2 2.3

Mansfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.9 52.2 52.8 52.3 -0.5 -0.9

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.8 51.1 51.1 51.1 0.0 0.0

Toledo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307.6 313.4 309.1 313.7 4.6 1.5

Weirton-Steubenville1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.9 44.3 44.1 44.3 0.2 0.5

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227.2 227.4 227.2 227.1 -0.1 0.0

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,668.1 1,658.1 1,678.5 1,667.1 -11.4 -0.7

Lawton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.5 46.0 46.5 46.5 0.0 0.0

Oklahoma City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631.7 632.4 636.5 635.1 -1.4 -0.2

Tulsa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444.2 443.7 448.2 449.2 1.0 0.2

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,792.7 1,855.3 1,810.1 1,871.8 61.7 3.4

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.7 42.8 41.8 43.1 1.3 3.1

Bend-Redmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.8 79.7 75.4 78.9 3.5 4.6

Corvallis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.0 40.1 41.9 41.6 -0.3 -0.7

Eugene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.0 153.8 154.4 157.3 2.9 1.9

Grants Pass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.3 25.9 25.1 25.8 0.7 2.8

Medford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.6 85.0 83.6 86.2 2.6 3.1

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,118.3 1,150.5 1,127.8 1,161.9 34.1 3.0

Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158.7 164.5 159.4 165.2 5.8 3.6

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,867.9 5,914.9 5,922.2 5,959.2 37.0 0.6

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360.5 358.7 361.9 359.9 -2.0 -0.6

Altoona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.0 62.4 61.0 62.6 1.6 2.6

Bloomsburg-Berwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.5 43.0 42.8 43.7 0.9 2.1

Chambersburg-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.9 62.1 60.5 62.6 2.1 3.5

East Stroudsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.8 57.5 56.6 57.7 1.1 1.9

Erie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.7 130.7 132.0 130.8 -1.2 -0.9

Gettysburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.1 34.8 34.4 35.1 0.7 2.0

Harrisburg-Carlisle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335.7 337.4 336.3 338.4 2.1 0.6

Johnstown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.1 56.2 57.6 56.9 -0.7 -1.2

Lancaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246.8 247.7 248.0 248.7 0.7 0.3

Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.4 51.8 51.5 52.1 0.6 1.2

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,830.3 2,879.2 2,860.8 2,904.4 43.6 1.5

Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,167.7 1,168.3 1,175.4 1,177.9 2.5 0.2

Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177.7 179.6 179.2 180.8 1.6 0.9

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259.6 259.5 262.0 260.8 -1.2 -0.5

State College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.2 78.6 79.9 80.7 0.8 1.0

Williamsport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.5 54.2 55.4 54.6 -0.8 -1.4

York-Hanover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183.4 186.0 184.0 186.6 2.6 1.4

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490.1 495.6 491.6 498.8 7.2 1.5

Providence-Warwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580.9 589.1 583.5 592.9 9.4 1.6

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,016.1 2,069.3 2,027.0 2,069.7 42.7 2.1

Charleston-North Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335.2 346.6 336.2 346.9 10.7 3.2

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386.8 398.0 389.8 397.7 7.9 2.0

Florence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.8 87.2 87.0 87.2 0.2 0.2

Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404.0 410.4 408.7 414.1 5.4 1.3

Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.3 77.6 75.4 76.2 0.8 1.1

Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158.5 162.0 154.9 156.3 1.4 0.9

Spartanburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.3 146.4 145.1 147.8 2.7 1.9

Sumter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.0 39.2 39.3 39.2 -0.1 -0.3

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

September October

Change from

October 2015 to October

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431.9 440.8 432.2 442.1 9.9 2.3

Rapid City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.6 69.4 66.8 68.6 1.8 2.7

Sioux Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.1 156.9 152.4 158.0 5.6 3.7

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,922.1 2,985.7 2,938.2 3,007.9 69.7 2.4

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249.4 252.0 249.9 253.4 3.5 1.4

Clarksville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.5 91.1 89.7 91.5 1.8 2.0

Cleveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.4 48.7 48.1 51.3 3.2 6.7

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.8 67.5 67.4 67.8 0.4 0.6

Johnson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.9 80.7 80.2 81.0 0.8 1.0

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.5 123.3 122.8 122.9 0.1 0.1

Knoxville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390.7 397.7 392.4 400.2 7.8 2.0

Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629.8 633.8 630.7 640.0 9.3 1.5

Morristown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.9 46.2 45.9 47.1 1.2 2.6

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923.0 949.0 929.8 952.5 22.7 2.4

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,862.7 12,073.0 11,949.1 12,153.6 204.5 1.7

Abilene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.3 69.2 68.5 69.6 1.1 1.6

Amarillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.3 119.6 119.8 120.4 0.6 0.5

Austin-Round Rock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964.4 992.3 977.1 998.3 21.2 2.2

Beaumont-Port Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166.0 167.3 168.0 168.9 0.9 0.5

Brownsville-Harlingen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.1 142.8 139.7 143.4 3.7 2.6

College Station-Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110.6 114.9 112.5 116.0 3.5 3.1

Corpus Christi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193.7 196.2 195.8 197.9 2.1 1.1

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,420.4 3,545.1 3,451.7 3,565.7 114.0 3.3

El Paso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303.8 311.2 306.6 313.5 6.9 2.3

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,986.1 3,004.4 3,009.4 3,022.8 13.4 0.4

Killeen-Temple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.1 142.3 140.6 142.9 2.3 1.6

Laredo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.6 104.3 102.6 105.8 3.2 3.1

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.7 100.3 100.6 101.2 0.6 0.6

Lubbock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.3 143.7 142.1 144.1 2.0 1.4

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247.1 255.1 249.5 256.9 7.4 3.0

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.5 90.3 90.4 91.0 0.6 0.7

Odessa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.9 73.0 73.7 73.1 -0.6 -0.8

San Angelo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.8 50.4 49.3 50.4 1.1 2.2

San Antonio-New Braunfels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984.3 1,004.2 993.4 1,006.3 12.9 1.3

Sherman-Denison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.9 46.7 46.4 47.2 0.8 1.7

Texarkana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.7 60.4 60.8 60.5 -0.3 -0.5

Tyler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.6 102.9 102.4 104.0 1.6 1.6

Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.7 45.6 44.7 45.8 1.1 2.5

Waco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.1 118.6 115.7 118.5 2.8 2.4

Wichita Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.1 58.2 58.7 58.4 -0.3 -0.5

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,394.4 1,435.5 1,401.8 1,443.7 41.9 3.0

Logan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.0 61.7 60.5 62.4 1.9 3.1

Ogden-Clearfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.1 252.0 244.2 253.3 9.1 3.7

Provo-Orem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230.9 237.2 231.4 238.7 7.3 3.2

St. George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.3 62.0 59.4 62.2 2.8 4.7

Salt Lake City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682.1 702.1 686.0 709.1 23.1 3.4

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313.4 316.8 317.9 318.4 0.5 0.2

Burlington-South Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.5 127.1 127.5 127.3 -0.2 -0.2

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,873.1 3,942.8 3,901.0 3,967.5 66.5 1.7

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.0 79.2 79.1 79.4 0.3 0.4

Charlottesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.0 118.8 113.7 118.5 4.8 4.2

Harrisonburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.1 65.3 65.7 65.9 0.2 0.3

Lynchburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.5 103.7 105.1 104.5 -0.6 -0.6

Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655.1 673.4 666.9 679.4 12.5 1.9

Roanoke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.9 163.8 162.6 164.6 2.0 1.2

Staunton-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.6 48.9 49.6 48.9 -0.7 -1.4

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768.6 771.9 769.7 774.0 4.3 0.6

Winchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.9 63.7 62.5 64.0 1.5 2.4

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,183.2 3,282.4 3,196.3 3,303.8 107.5 3.4

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

September October

Change from

October 2015 to October

2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

Washington - Continued

Bellingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.8 89.1 88.3 90.1 1.8 2.0

Bremerton-Silverdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.6 89.6 89.4 90.1 0.7 0.8

Kennewick-Richland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.5 111.7 108.8 111.7 2.9 2.7

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.4 41.2 39.6 40.9 1.3 3.3

Mount Vernon-Anacortes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.6 50.2 49.0 50.4 1.4 2.9

Olympia-Tumwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109.6 111.8 110.3 113.0 2.7 2.4

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,910.5 1,977.1 1,913.2 1,984.9 71.7 3.7

Spokane-Spokane Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236.6 246.5 238.8 248.5 9.7 4.1

Walla Walla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.5 26.6 27.6 27.9 0.3 1.1

Wenatchee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.2 44.5 44.5 44.8 0.3 0.7

Yakima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.1 84.0 84.0 84.9 0.9 1.1

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766.8 766.3 771.0 771.0 0.0 0.0

Beckley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.5 46.9 47.4 46.7 -0.7 -1.5

Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.9 122.3 123.4 122.5 -0.9 -0.7

Huntington-Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.1 142.3 142.8 143.1 0.3 0.2

Morgantown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.6 72.8 73.3 73.6 0.3 0.4

Parkersburg-Vienna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.2 41.6 42.5 41.7 -0.8 -1.9

Wheeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.0 67.7 68.8 68.3 -0.5 -0.7

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,907.5 2,949.3 2,938.8 2,968.3 29.5 1.0

Appleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.7 124.1 124.4 125.5 1.1 0.9

Eau Claire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.8 86.2 86.3 87.0 0.7 0.8

Fond du Lac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.5 48.6 48.8 49.2 0.4 0.8

Green Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.6 176.7 175.5 178.1 2.6 1.5

Janesville-Beloit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.4 69.9 67.8 70.7 2.9 4.3

La Crosse-Onalaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.6 78.7 79.1 79.5 0.4 0.5

Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391.3 396.2 396.2 399.1 2.9 0.7

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858.1 862.6 867.9 866.7 -1.2 -0.1

Oshkosh-Neenah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.7 95.0 95.9 96.0 0.1 0.1

Racine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.0 77.4 77.3 77.4 0.1 0.1

Sheboygan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 61.9 61.4 61.4 0.0 0.0

Wausau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.8 72.7 73.3 73.6 0.3 0.4

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295.2 285.0 291.6 281.1 -10.5 -3.6

Casper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.8 39.6 41.8 39.6 -2.2 -5.3

Cheyenne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.2 45.9 47.6 45.8 -1.8 -3.8

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892.9 885.7 897.8 888.8 -9.0 -1.0

Aguadilla-Isabela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.3 50.6 50.9 50.9 0.0 0.0

Arecibo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.6 32.8 33.6 32.6 -1.0 -3.0

Guayama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.4 15.0 15.3 15.0 -0.3 -2.0

Mayaguez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.9 34.2 34.3 34.4 0.1 0.3

Ponce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.9 70.3 71.3 70.6 -0.7 -1.0

San German. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.6 19.6 20.8 19.6 -1.2 -5.8

San Juan-Carolina-Caguas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648.2 642.7 650.8 645.1 -5.7 -0.9

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.9 37.5 37.0 37.7 0.7 1.9

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

September October Change from

October 2015 to October 2016p

2015 2016 2015 2016p Number Percent

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,151.0 16,519.5 16,290.8 16,658.4 367.6 2.3

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,840.9 5,958.8 5,895.1 6,006.3 111.2 1.9

Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,549.9 1,596.9 1,565.5 1,605.5 40.0 2.6

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,291.0 4,361.9 4,329.6 4,400.8 71.2 1.6

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,277.7 2,334.8 2,296.7 2,354.9 58.2 2.5

Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,099.9 1,127.2 1,108.9 1,137.0 28.1 2.5

San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,064.2 1,090.6 1,073.1 1,099.3 26.2 2.4

San Rafael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113.6 117.0 114.7 118.6 3.9 3.4

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766.6 781.5 772.0 785.6 13.6 1.8

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,180.9 3,257.5 3,206.6 3,276.8 70.2 2.2

Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587.3 596.5 591.4 601.4 10.0 1.7

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,593.6 2,661.0 2,615.2 2,675.4 60.2 2.3

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,100.7 8,378.5 8,182.0 8,440.3 258.3 3.2

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,507.1 2,565.9 2,532.3 2,583.3 51.0 2.0

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797.5 830.5 807.5 834.3 26.8 3.3

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,126.1 1,140.9 1,132.5 1,147.8 15.3 1.4

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583.5 594.5 592.3 601.2 8.9 1.5

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,008.9 6,055.7 6,059.3 6,090.0 30.7 0.5

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,620.8 4,677.0 4,659.6 4,698.3 38.7 0.8

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,674.9 3,715.5 3,708.4 3,732.2 23.8 0.6

Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258.3 263.1 260.9 266.0 5.1 2.0

Gary3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275.8 280.9 277.7 283.5 5.8 2.1

Lake County-Kenosha County2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411.8 417.5 412.6 416.6 4.0 1.0

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,514.0 3,595.0 3,542.8 3,613.0 70.2 2.0

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,657.5 2,709.0 2,680.5 2,727.2 46.7 1.7

Boston-Cambridge-Newton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,780.0 1,814.9 1,795.7 1,828.1 32.4 1.8

Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.0 81.5 82.0 82.7 0.7 0.9

Framingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.9 175.2 173.3 175.8 2.5 1.4

Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.0 68.9 66.4 68.9 2.5 3.8

Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.3 82.8 83.7 83.1 -0.6 -0.7

Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149.5 151.6 149.9 152.3 2.4 1.6

Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.2 45.8 45.2 45.8 0.6 1.3

Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126.4 129.1 127.1 130.6 3.5 2.8

Peabody-Salem-Beverly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.8 97.3 97.4 98.2 0.8 0.8

Taunton-Middleborough-Norton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.4 61.9 59.8 61.7 1.9 3.2

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,273.5 4,368.5 4,314.9 4,402.4 87.5 2.0

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,946.0 1,986.9 1,955.4 1,997.1 41.7 2.1

Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737.0 750.6 738.1 753.7 15.6 2.1

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,209.0 1,236.3 1,217.3 1,243.4 26.1 2.1

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,263.3 9,386.7 9,372.8 9,466.9 94.1 1.0

New York-Newark-Jersey City2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,347.7 9,523.3 9,467.2 9,602.8 135.6 1.4

Dutchess County-Putnam County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.4 146.3 147.3 149.1 1.8 1.2

Nassau County-Suffolk County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,312.5 1,327.2 1,327.6 1,339.3 11.7 0.9

Newark3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,188.2 1,209.0 1,201.2 1,213.6 12.4 1.0

New York-Jersey City-White Plains2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,702.6 6,840.8 6,791.1 6,900.8 109.7 1.6

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,867.9 5,914.9 5,922.2 5,959.2 37.0 0.6

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,830.3 2,879.2 2,860.8 2,904.4 43.6 1.5

Camden3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521.3 531.9 526.8 536.3 9.5 1.8

Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,034.9 1,048.6 1,042.4 1,055.8 13.4 1.3

Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918.5 935.3 930.6 946.3 15.7 1.7

Wilmington3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355.6 363.4 361.0 366.0 5.0 1.4

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,862.7 12,073.0 11,949.1 12,153.6 204.5 1.7

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,420.4 3,545.1 3,451.7 3,565.7 114.0 3.3

Dallas-Plano-Irving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,422.5 2,526.2 2,450.1 2,543.1 93.0 3.8

Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997.9 1,018.9 1,001.6 1,022.6 21.0 2.1

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,183.2 3,282.4 3,196.3 3,303.8 107.5 3.4

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,910.5 1,977.1 1,913.2 1,984.9 71.7 3.7

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,610.2 1,667.2 1,612.7 1,675.2 62.5 3.9

Tacoma-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300.3 309.9 300.5 309.7 9.2 3.1

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

October 2016

(U.S. rate = 4.7 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, October 2016

(U.S. average = 1.6 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.