For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Friday, March 23, 2012 USDL-12-0497 

Technical information: 

Employment: (202) 691-6559 • sminfo@bls.gov • www.bls.gov/sae 

Unemployment: (202) 691-6392 • lausinfo@bls.gov • www.bls.gov/lau 

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

(NOTE: Employment data published in this release for several states and areas are erroneous. 

The errors are found in tables 3 and 4. Corrected data were loaded into the CES State and Area 

database on June 15, 2012, and are available at www.bls.gov/sae/data.htm. This news release will 

not be corrected. A complete listing of corrected series is available at 

www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.)

METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT — JANUARY 2012

Unemployment rates were lower in January than a year earlier in 345 of the 372 metropolitan areas, 

higher in 16 areas, and unchanged in 11 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. 

Thirteen areas recorded jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent, and 13 areas registered rates of less than 

5.0 percent. Two hundred seventy metropolitan areas reported over-the-year increases in nonfarm 

payroll employment, 94 reported decreases, and 8 had no change. The national unemployment rate in 

January was 8.8 percent, not seasonally adjusted, down from 9.8 percent a year earlier.

Metropolitan Area Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In January, 86 metropolitan areas reported jobless rates of at least 10.0 percent, down from 150 areas a 

year earlier, while 83 areas posted rates below 7.0 percent, up from 47 areas in January 2011. El Centro, 

Calif., and Yuma, Ariz., recorded the highest unemployment rates in January 2012, 26.4 and 24.5 

percent, respectively. Ten of the other 11 areas with jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent were located in 

California. Bismarck, N.D., and Lincoln, Neb., registered the lowest unemployment rates, 3.8 percent 

each. A total of 201 areas recorded January unemployment rates below the U.S. figure of 8.8 percent, 

162 areas reported rates above it, and 9 areas had rates equal to that of the nation. (See table 1 and the 

map.) 

Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Data Series Changes 

In accordance with annual practices, historical data have been revised in tables 1 through 4 of 

this news release. For detailed information on the revisions, see the box notes at the end of the 

news release. 
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The largest over-the-year unemployment rate decreases in January were registered in Decatur, Ala. (-3.2 

percentage points), and Monroe, Mich. (-2.8 points). Twenty-five other areas recorded rate declines of 

2.0 percentage points or more, and an additional 170 areas had decreases of between 1.0 and 1.9 points. 

Lawton, Okla., and Yuma, Ariz., reported the largest over-the-year jobless rate increases (+1.0 

percentage point each). 

Of the 49 metropolitan areas with a Census 2000 population of 1 million or more, the highest 

unemployment rates in January were registered in Las Vegas-Paradise, Nev., 13.1 percent, and 

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif., 12.4 percent. Five additional large areas posted rates of 10.0 

percent or more. The lowest jobless rates among the large areas were recorded in WashingtonArlington-Alexandria, D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va., 5.7 percent, and Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, 

Minn.-Wis., and Oklahoma City, Okla., 5.9 percent each. Forty-six of the large areas reported over-theyear unemployment rate decreases, while one area registered an increase and two had no change. Kansas 

City, Mo.-Kan., experienced the largest unemployment rate decline from January 2011 (-2.1 percentage 

points), followed by Detroit-Warren-Livonia, Mich., and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Fla. (-1.8 

points each). The only over-the-year jobless rate increase in a large area was marginal (+0.1 percentage 

point in New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa.). 

Metropolitan Division Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

Eleven of the most populous metropolitan areas are made up of 34 metropolitan divisions, which are 

essentially separately identifiable employment centers. In January 2012, Los Angeles-Long BeachGlendale, Calif., registered the highest jobless rate among the divisions, 12.1 percent. BethesdaRockville-Frederick, Md., reported the lowest division rate, 5.2 percent. (See table 2.) 

Thirty-one of the metropolitan divisions recorded over-the-year jobless rate decreases in January, while 

one division registered an increase and two had no change. Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, Mich., 

posted the largest rate decline from a year earlier (-1.9 percentage points). Twelve other divisions 

reported rate decreases of 1.0 percentage point or more. New York-White Plains-Wayne, N.Y.-N.J., 

experienced the only unemployment rate increase from a year earlier (+0.4 percentage point). 

In 4 of the 11 metropolitan areas that contain divisions, the ranges between the highest and lowest 

division jobless rates were 2.0 percentage points or more in January. Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass.-

N.H., recorded the largest rate difference among its divisions, 6.2 percentage points (LawrenceMethuen-Salem, Mass.-N.H., 11.9 percent, compared with Framingham, Mass., 5.7 percent).

Metropolitan Area Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In January, 270 metropolitan areas reported over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment, 94 

reported decreases, and 8 had no change. The largest over-the-year employment increase occurred in 

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa. (+121,300), followed by Houston-Sugar 

Land-Baytown, Texas (+94,700), Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+69,700), and Atlanta-Sandy 

Springs-Marietta, Ga. (+68,400). The largest over-the-year percentage gain in employment was reported 

in Ocean City, N.J. (+12.9 percent), followed by Columbus, Ind. (+11.0 percent), and Odessa, Texas 

(+9.1 percent). (See table 3.) 

The largest over-the-year decreases in employment occurred in Fort Smith, Ark.-Okla. (-6,400), 

Sacramento—Arden-Arcade—Roseville, Calif. (-5,100), and Ithaca, N.Y. (-3,500). The largest over-
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the-year percentage decreases in employment were reported in Fort Smith, Ark.-Okla., and Ithaca, N.Y. 

(-5.6 percent each), and Elmira, N.Y. (-3.8 percent). 

Over the year, nonfarm employment rose in 33 of the 37 metropolitan areas with annual average 

employment levels above 750,000 in 2011. The largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment 

in these large metropolitan areas was posted in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas (+3.7 percent), 

followed by Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, Texas (+3.5 percent), and Atlanta-Sandy SpringsMarietta, Ga. (+3.1 percent). The largest over-the-year percentage decrease in employment occurred in 

Sacramento—Arden-Arcade—Roseville, Calif. (-0.6 percent), followed by Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, 

Ohio (-0.3 percent), and Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, Wis. (-0.2 percent). 

Metropolitan Division Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

Nonfarm payroll employment data were available in January 2012 for 32 metropolitan divisions, which 

are essentially separately identifiable employment centers within a metropolitan area. Twenty-eight of 

the 32 metropolitan divisions reported over-the-year employment gains, while 4 reported losses. The 

largest over-the-year increases in the metropolitan divisions occurred in New York-White PlainsWayne, N.Y.-N.J. (+87,400), Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas (+45,300), and Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, Ill. 

(+35,700). The largest over-the-year decreases in the metropolitan divisions were in Detroit-LivoniaDearborn, Mich. (-4,600), Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, Md. (-2,100), and Nashua, N.H.-Mass. 

(-1,000). (See table 4.) 

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

reported in Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+2.9 percent), followed by Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, 

Mass.-N.H. (+2.6 percent), and Framingham, Mass., and Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Wash. (+2.4 percent 

each). The largest over-the-year percentage decreases in employment occurred in Nashua, N.H.-Mass. 

(-0.8 percent), Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, Mich. (-0.7 percent), and Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, Md. 

(-0.4 percent). 

_____________ 

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

to be released on Friday, March 30, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT). The Metropolitan Area 

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

Tuesday, April 10, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT).

 
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Changes to Local Area Unemployment Statistics Data 

Effective with the release of 2011 annual average estimates on February 29, labor force and 

unemployment data for all states, the District of Columbia, and the seven modeled substate 

areas presented in tables 1 and 2 of this news release were revised from 2007 through 2011 to 

incorporate updated inputs, new population controls, reestimation of models, and adjustment to 

new division and national control totals. Historical revisions for all model-based area estimates 

were loaded into the BLS time series database at that time. 

Labor force and unemployment data for the non-modeled metropolitan areas and divisions 

presented in tables 1 and 2 of this news release have been revised for 2011 to incorporate 

updated inputs and adjustment to new state control totals. However, historical estimates for 

these areas and divisions in the BLS time series database have not been revised and do not 

match the data for 2011 in this release. Revisions for all non-modeled metropolitan area and 

division estimates from 2007 through 2011 will be loaded into the database on Friday, April 20. 

For more information, see www.bls.gov/lau/launews1.htm. 

Changes to Current Employment Statistics Data 

Effective with this release, nonfarm payroll estimates for all states, metropolitan areas, and 

metropolitan divisions (tables 3 and 4) have been revised as a result of annual benchmark 

processing to reflect 2011 employment counts primarily from the BLS’ Quarterly Census of 

Employment and Wages (QCEW), as well as updated seasonal adjustment factors. Not 

seasonally adjusted data for states, areas, and divisions were revised back to April 2010, and 

seasonally adjusted data were subject to revision back to January 1990. For more information 

on benchmark procedures, see www.bls.gov/sae/benchmark2012.pdf. 

In addition, the data were updated to the 2012 North American Industry Classification System 

(NAICS) from the 2007 NAICS. This update resulted in minor level and title changes to a few 

detailed series. 
Technical Note 

This release presents labor force and unemployment 

data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) 

program (tables 1 and 2) for 372 metropolitan statistical areas 

and metropolitan New England City and Town Areas 

(NECTAs), plus 8 areas in Puerto Rico. Estimates for 34 

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 most of 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 federal-state 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 over. 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 labor-management dispute, illness, or vacation. 

Unemployed persons are those who were not employed 

during the reference week (based on the definition above), 

had actively looked for a job sometime in the 4-week period 

ending with the reference week, and were currently available 

for work; persons on layoff expecting recall need not be 

looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The 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 estimation was extended to the 

following areas and their respective balances of state in 2005: 

the Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL Metropolitan Division; 

Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area; 

Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area; 

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metropolitan Division; 

New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA Metropolitan Statistical 

Area; and Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Metropolitan 

Division. (Model-based estimation of the New OrleansMetairie-Kenner metropolitan area was suspended following 

Hurricane Katrina; the indirect estimation methods described 

below will be used for this area until further notice.) 

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 balanceof-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 end 

of each year, usually implemented with January estimates. 

The adjusted model-based estimates reflect updated 

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

in the other data sources, and model reestimation. All 

substate estimates are reestimated and adjusted to add to the 

revised model-based estimates. 

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 2007 version 

of the North American Industry Classification System.

Method of e stimation. The employment data are 

estimated using a “link relative” technique in which a ratio 

(link relative) of current-month employment to that of the 

previous month is computed from a sample of establishments 

reporting for both months. The estimates of employment for 

the current month are obtained by multiplying the estimates 

for the previous month by these ratios. Small-domain models 

are used as the official estimators for the approximately 39 

percent of CES published series which have insufficient 

sample for direct sample-based estimates. 

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. 

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 particular 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 unempl oyment estim ates. Modelbased error measures are available for states on the Internet at 

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

error are not available, but additional information on the 

subject is provided in Employment and Earnings Online at 

www.bls.gov/opub/ee/home.htm. 

Employment estimates . Measures of sampling error 

for state CES data at the supersector level and for metropolitan area CES data at the total nonfarm level are available 

online at www.bls.gov/sae/790stderr.htm. Information on 

recent benchmark revisions for states is available on the BLS 

Web site at www.bls.gov/sae/. 

Area definitions

The substate area data published in this release reflect 

the standards and definitions established by the U.S. Office of 

Management and Budget on December 1, 2009. 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 at www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm.

Additional information 

More complete information on the technical procedures 

used to develop these estimates and additional data appear in 

Employment and Earnings Online. 

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, labor market 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 Web site 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 LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p

Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p

Alabama ................................................................... 2,193.7 2,169.8 2,134.8 219.2 165.6 176.7 10.0 7.6 8.3

Anniston-Oxford .................................................... 54.5 52.9 52.3 5.4 4.2 4.4 9.9 7.9 8.5

Auburn-Opelika ..................................................... 66.9 67.9 67.2 5.6 4.4 4.7 8.3 6.4 6.9

Birmingham-Hoover .............................................. 531.1 526.1 515.7 48.6 36.3 38.4 9.2 6.9 7.5

Decatur ................................................................. 73.5 73.2 72.1 8.4 5.5 5.9 11.5 7.5 8.3

Dothan .................................................................. 65.3 64.9 64.4 5.8 4.6 4.9 8.9 7.1 7.6

Florence-Muscle Shoals ....................................... 70.1 70.2 69.5 6.9 5.2 5.6 9.9 7.3 8.0

Gadsden ............................................................... 45.9 45.6 44.4 4.6 3.5 3.7 10.0 7.6 8.3

Huntsville .............................................................. 215.0 211.4 207.3 17.9 13.9 14.9 8.3 6.6 7.2

Mobile ................................................................... 192.2 191.0 188.5 20.9 16.4 17.6 10.9 8.6 9.4

Montgomery .......................................................... 172.0 167.9 166.3 16.6 13.1 13.8 9.6 7.8 8.3

Tuscaloosa ........................................................... 102.0 100.1 98.7 9.6 7.2 7.8 9.4 7.2 7.9

Alaska ...................................................................... 362.2 365.7 362.0 31.9 27.7 29.2 8.8 7.6 8.1

Anchorage ............................................................ 202.4 203.2 200.6 15.3 12.7 13.7 7.6 6.3 6.8

Fairbanks .............................................................. 45.8 47.4 45.7 3.6 3.2 3.4 8.0 6.7 7.5

Arizona .................................................................... 3,055.2 3,014.0 2,981.2 312.4 263.9 262.9 10.2 8.8 8.8

Flagstaff ................................................................ 72.3 70.0 68.3 7.7 6.4 6.3 10.7 9.2 9.2

Lake Havasu City-Kingman .................................. 89.0 85.7 84.6 10.8 8.8 8.8 12.2 10.3 10.4

Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale ....................................... 2,052.6 2,029.7 2,007.8 193.6 158.8 158.9 9.4 7.8 7.9

Prescott ................................................................ 92.0 89.4 88.2 10.5 8.3 8.6 11.4 9.2 9.7

Tucson .................................................................. 471.5 461.8 458.5 43.4 36.1 36.1 9.2 7.8 7.9

Yuma .................................................................... 86.3 87.6 85.8 20.2 22.3 21.0 23.5 25.4 24.5

Arkansas ................................................................. 1,344.8 1,367.1 1,362.1 120.9 104.9 113.0 9.0 7.7 8.3

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers ............................ 225.9 231.7 231.6 15.8 13.2 14.4 7.0 5.7 6.2

Fort Smith ............................................................. 133.9 127.8 127.2 12.6 10.9 11.3 9.4 8.5 8.9

Hot Springs ........................................................... 41.8 42.1 42.4 3.9 3.4 3.6 9.3 8.1 8.4

Jonesboro ............................................................. 58.4 58.7 58.8 5.0 4.2 4.7 8.6 7.2 8.0

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway ................... 339.5 346.3 347.0 26.0 23.1 24.7 7.7 6.7 7.1

Pine Bluff .............................................................. 43.7 44.0 44.5 4.9 4.3 4.6 11.1 9.7 10.3

California ................................................................. 18,299.7 18,432.2 18,365.9 2,315.2 2,017.8 2,082.4 12.7 10.9 11.3

Bakersfield-Delano ............................................... 378.9 384.5 384.0 63.2 55.0 57.6 16.7 14.3 15.0

Chico .................................................................... 101.6 101.6 100.5 15.4 12.8 13.8 15.1 12.6 13.7

El Centro ............................................................... 77.0 76.5 76.8 21.7 21.5 20.2 28.2 28.1 26.4

Fresno .................................................................. 441.5 436.4 442.2 80.9 70.7 74.8 18.3 16.2 16.9

Hanford-Corcoran ................................................. 60.4 61.4 61.8 11.1 9.5 10.5 18.5 15.4 16.9

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ................... 6,518.0 6,550.5 6,494.4 780.2 699.3 717.2 12.0 10.7 11.0

Madera-Chowchilla ............................................... 68.9 65.4 67.2 11.3 9.8 10.2 16.4 14.9 15.1

Merced .................................................................. 109.3 109.3 110.2 23.1 19.8 21.5 21.1 18.1 19.5

Modesto ................................................................ 237.5 234.9 234.2 43.6 38.0 39.5 18.4 16.2 16.9

Napa ..................................................................... 73.9 75.1 75.1 7.8 6.6 6.9 10.6 8.8 9.2

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura ......................... 432.2 437.3 434.6 47.6 41.2 42.3 11.0 9.4 9.7

Redding ................................................................ 83.4 84.0 83.7 14.1 11.2 12.0 16.9 13.4 14.3

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario ....................... 1,798.9 1,814.6 1,812.5 254.2 221.1 224.9 14.1 12.2 12.4

Sacramento—Arden-Arcade—Roseville .............. 1,044.2 1,033.4 1,033.9 134.1 112.9 117.2 12.8 10.9 11.3

Salinas .................................................................. 208.3 217.2 217.2 36.3 31.3 33.5 17.4 14.4 15.4

San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos ......................... 1,573.8 1,595.0 1,586.2 164.9 144.2 147.5 10.5 9.0 9.3

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont ......................... 2,247.7 2,279.0 2,273.6 228.5 191.8 197.7 10.2 8.4 8.7

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara ........................ 911.4 933.2 929.7 98.1 82.4 84.3 10.8 8.8 9.1

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles .............................. 136.9 135.6 135.2 13.9 11.7 11.9 10.1 8.6 8.8

Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta ...................... 216.7 225.3 223.0 22.3 19.3 20.0 10.3 8.5 9.0

Santa Cruz-Watsonville ........................................ 147.0 149.0 149.6 22.1 18.5 20.1 15.0 12.4 13.5

Santa Rosa-Petaluma .......................................... 255.1 253.4 255.2 27.1 22.7 23.6 10.6 9.0 9.2

Stockton ................................................................ 297.4 297.2 299.6 55.5 47.9 49.8 18.6 16.1 16.6

Vallejo-Fairfield ..................................................... 214.4 217.6 218.1 26.6 22.7 23.6 12.4 10.4 10.8

Visalia-Porterville .................................................. 208.2 209.7 210.3 38.8 34.7 36.4 18.6 16.5 17.3

Yuba City .............................................................. 69.7 71.6 72.0 14.8 12.8 13.5 21.2 17.9 18.8

Colorado .................................................................. 2,704.0 2,724.8 2,703.5 251.4 210.3 226.3 9.3 7.7 8.4

Boulder ................................................................. 175.0 177.0 175.3 12.4 9.8 10.8 7.1 5.5 6.2

Colorado Springs .................................................. 312.7 307.9 307.2 31.5 27.2 29.6 10.1 8.8 9.6

Denver-Aurora-Broomfield .................................... 1,394.2 1,400.1 1,399.9 129.5 110.0 116.9 9.3 7.9 8.4

Fort Collins-Loveland ............................................ 175.5 177.7 175.0 14.0 10.9 12.1 8.0 6.1 6.9

Grand Junction ..................................................... 78.0 79.2 78.8 8.9 6.9 7.6 11.4 8.7 9.6

Greeley ................................................................. 120.8 121.4 117.8 13.0 10.5 11.3 10.7 8.7 9.6

Pueblo .................................................................. 75.5 76.4 76.1 8.4 7.5 8.1 11.1 9.8 10.6

Connecticut ............................................................. 1,905.0 1,905.0 1,895.1 189.5 145.0 160.9 9.9 7.6 8.5

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk ............................... 481.0 481.6 476.4 44.6 34.1 37.7 9.3 7.1 7.9

Danbury ................................................................ 92.4 94.0 93.2 7.6 5.6 6.4 8.3 6.0 6.9

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford ................... 605.5 606.5 604.6 60.0 46.0 51.0 9.9 7.6 8.4

New Haven ........................................................... 318.9 318.2 317.3 33.1 25.3 28.0 10.4 8.0 8.8

Norwich-New London ........................................... 152.4 149.9 149.6 15.0 12.1 13.2 9.8 8.1 8.8

Waterbury ............................................................. 102.6 102.1 102.2 13.7 10.2 11.3 13.3 10.0 11.1

Delaware .................................................................. 437.4 441.7 437.1 35.5 30.5 32.2 8.1 6.9 7.4

Dover .................................................................... 76.0 76.4 75.3 6.2 5.3 5.7 8.1 7.0 7.6

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p

Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p

District of Columbia ............................................... 344.1 342.3 344.9 36.0 33.7 35.3 10.5 9.8 10.2

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria ......................... 3,149.3 3,181.6 3,173.4 194.2 170.9 179.4 6.2 5.4 5.7

Florida ...................................................................... 9,130.1 9,278.3 9,199.3 1,011.5 900.3 875.4 11.1 9.7 9.5

Cape Coral-Fort Myers ......................................... 281.8 282.6 281.7 33.4 28.7 27.7 11.8 10.2 9.8

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin ................... 93.6 99.8 99.0 7.9 7.0 6.9 8.4 7.1 6.9

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach .............. 248.4 254.3 248.4 29.1 25.5 24.8 11.7 10.0 10.0

Gainesville ............................................................ 137.5 137.5 136.3 11.1 10.5 10.1 8.0 7.7 7.4

Jacksonville .......................................................... 681.8 696.3 684.4 73.0 64.4 62.4 10.7 9.2 9.1

Lakeland-Winter Haven ........................................ 273.5 274.1 270.0 33.0 29.4 28.4 12.1 10.7 10.5

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach .............. 2,839.0 2,894.8 2,897.9 307.8 275.9 269.7 10.8 9.5 9.3

Naples-Marco Island ............................................. 149.3 152.6 153.9 15.8 13.8 13.3 10.6 9.0 8.6

North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota ............................ 297.5 301.8 299.3 34.7 29.8 29.1 11.7 9.9 9.7

Ocala .................................................................... 132.7 133.2 131.7 17.5 15.4 15.0 13.2 11.5 11.4

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford ................................ 1,105.4 1,123.5 1,104.1 123.7 108.4 105.2 11.2 9.6 9.5

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville ............................. 264.2 265.6 262.9 30.4 28.3 27.4 11.5 10.7 10.4

Palm Coast ........................................................... 33.4 34.0 33.0 5.0 4.6 4.5 15.0 13.5 13.5

Panama City-Lynn Haven-Panama City Beach .... 87.8 89.6 88.9 10.4 9.1 8.9 11.8 10.2 10.0

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent ................................ 209.7 210.3 206.4 21.8 19.8 19.1 10.4 9.4 9.3

Port St. Lucie ........................................................ 189.2 189.5 186.7 24.0 21.3 20.7 12.7 11.2 11.1

Punta Gorda ......................................................... 70.4 71.3 70.2 8.1 7.0 6.9 11.5 9.9 9.8

Sebastian-Vero Beach .......................................... 63.6 64.8 64.6 8.1 7.2 7.0 12.8 11.1 10.8

Tallahassee .......................................................... 190.8 192.1 191.8 16.3 15.4 14.9 8.5 8.0 7.8

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater ........................ 1,286.6 1,316.1 1,294.2 149.9 132.3 128.5 11.7 10.1 9.9

Georgia .................................................................... 4,705.5 4,749.7 4,739.1 489.2 435.2 445.8 10.4 9.2 9.4

Albany ................................................................... 75.0 73.3 72.7 8.0 7.2 7.3 10.6 9.8 10.1

Athens-Clarke County .......................................... 106.7 109.2 108.0 8.5 7.6 7.7 7.9 7.0 7.1

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta ............................ 2,663.9 2,710.5 2,706.1 273.3 242.4 247.6 10.3 8.9 9.2

Augusta-Richmond County ................................... 259.0 257.0 255.4 24.2 22.9 23.2 9.3 8.9 9.1

Brunswick ............................................................. 50.4 49.8 50.3 5.6 5.2 5.4 11.1 10.4 10.7

Columbus ............................................................. 129.2 133.0 132.3 12.8 11.7 11.9 9.9 8.8 9.0

Dalton ................................................................... 62.4 59.8 59.9 8.5 7.3 7.6 13.6 12.3 12.7

Gainesville ............................................................ 88.4 91.3 91.3 8.0 6.9 7.0 9.0 7.5 7.6

Hinesville-Fort Stewart ......................................... 33.5 33.3 33.4 3.0 3.0 3.1 8.9 9.1 9.3

Macon ................................................................... 112.2 112.9 112.7 11.8 10.8 11.2 10.5 9.5 9.9

Rome .................................................................... 48.3 47.0 47.2 5.4 4.9 5.2 11.2 10.5 11.1

Savannah ............................................................. 175.0 175.1 174.8 16.4 15.3 15.5 9.4 8.7 8.9

Valdosta ................................................................ 66.2 66.1 66.3 6.3 5.8 5.9 9.5 8.7 9.0

Warner Robins ...................................................... 70.6 70.5 70.7 5.7 5.2 5.4 8.0 7.4 7.6

Hawaii ...................................................................... 657.4 659.5 657.0 44.3 40.8 42.3 6.7 6.2 6.4

Honolulu ............................................................... 457.6 461.0 463.1 26.3 24.9 26.3 5.8 5.4 5.7

Idaho ........................................................................ 761.2 772.3 767.9 76.5 64.5 69.3 10.1 8.3 9.0

Boise City-Nampa ................................................. 299.6 302.2 300.6 29.8 25.2 26.7 9.9 8.3 8.9

Coeur d’Alene ....................................................... 71.2 72.3 72.5 9.0 7.1 7.8 12.6 9.9 10.7

Idaho Falls ............................................................ 62.7 63.9 64.0 5.1 4.5 4.8 8.1 7.0 7.6

Lewiston ............................................................... 29.3 29.3 29.0 2.7 2.1 2.2 9.1 7.3 7.6

Pocatello ............................................................... 43.5 44.9 44.2 4.0 3.6 3.9 9.2 8.0 8.9

Illinois ...................................................................... 6,496.3 6,554.8 6,522.2 654.3 610.5 648.3 10.1 9.3 9.9

Bloomington-Normal ............................................. 90.1 91.3 89.8 6.9 6.3 7.3 7.7 6.9 8.2

Champaign-Urbana .............................................. 115.5 114.2 114.1 10.4 9.2 10.6 9.0 8.0 9.3

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville ...................................... 4,771.8 4,826.0 4,780.6 475.3 447.2 460.6 10.0 9.3 9.6

Danville ................................................................. 36.6 36.5 36.5 4.2 3.7 4.2 11.6 10.3 11.6

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island ............................. 200.8 197.8 197.9 17.5 15.5 17.4 8.7 7.8 8.8

Decatur ................................................................. 53.3 54.6 54.5 6.2 5.5 6.3 11.6 10.1 11.5

Kankakee-Bradley ................................................ 55.3 56.5 57.2 7.4 6.6 7.6 13.4 11.7 13.2

Peoria ................................................................... 199.5 204.8 203.7 19.6 16.7 19.2 9.8 8.2 9.4

Rockford ............................................................... 165.0 168.4 169.1 23.2 20.7 22.9 14.1 12.3 13.5

Springfield ............................................................. 114.7 117.2 117.1 9.6 8.8 10.3 8.3 7.5 8.8

Indiana ..................................................................... 3,140.3 3,189.6 3,169.7 306.7 275.7 291.9 9.8 8.6 9.2

Anderson .............................................................. 60.6 60.7 60.7 7.1 6.1 6.5 11.7 10.1 10.8

Bloomington .......................................................... 96.7 96.1 96.1 7.5 7.3 7.5 7.7 7.6 7.8

Columbus ............................................................. 38.3 41.4 41.3 3.2 2.8 2.9 8.3 6.7 6.9

Elkhart-Goshen ..................................................... 89.5 91.1 91.9 11.2 10.0 10.3 12.5 10.9 11.2

Evansville ............................................................. 181.8 183.4 182.3 15.1 13.8 14.5 8.3 7.5 8.0

Fort Wayne ........................................................... 207.2 212.8 211.2 21.7 18.1 18.9 10.5 8.5 9.0

Indianapolis-Carmel .............................................. 884.6 902.2 891.5 78.1 73.5 76.5 8.8 8.2 8.6

Kokomo ................................................................ 42.2 42.8 42.6 5.0 4.2 4.3 11.8 9.7 10.1

Lafayette ............................................................... 96.9 99.6 98.1 7.8 7.4 7.4 8.0 7.4 7.6

Michigan City-La Porte ......................................... 50.1 50.8 50.1 5.9 5.1 5.5 11.7 10.0 11.1

Muncie .................................................................. 53.5 54.4 54.5 5.8 5.3 5.4 10.9 9.8 10.0

South Bend-Mishawaka ........................................ 151.0 155.2 153.2 15.9 14.6 15.3 10.5 9.4 10.0

Terre Haute .......................................................... 79.2 79.1 78.7 8.7 8.1 8.7 11.0 10.3 11.0

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Iowa .......................................................................... 1,655.5 1,661.5 1,653.2 115.2 95.7 101.8 7.0 5.8 6.2

Ames .................................................................... 48.0 49.2 48.3 2.4 2.0 2.1 5.0 4.1 4.3

Cedar Rapids ........................................................ 146.1 143.1 142.9 9.9 8.6 9.0 6.8 6.0 6.3

Des Moines-West Des Moines ............................. 311.7 308.8 308.2 21.2 17.8 18.9 6.8 5.8 6.1

Dubuque ............................................................... 53.4 53.0 53.5 3.8 2.8 3.1 7.1 5.3 5.8

Iowa City ............................................................... 91.4 91.4 89.9 4.4 3.8 4.0 4.8 4.2 4.4

Sioux City ............................................................. 77.0 78.0 77.3 5.1 4.4 4.8 6.7 5.7 6.1

Waterloo-Cedar Falls ............................................ 94.1 96.1 93.0 6.1 5.3 5.5 6.5 5.5 5.9

Kansas ..................................................................... 1,498.9 1,505.4 1,497.3 113.1 90.2 95.3 7.5 6.0 6.4

Lawrence .............................................................. 61.3 61.4 61.9 4.1 3.1 3.4 6.7 5.1 5.6

Manhattan ............................................................. 62.3 60.9 61.4 3.9 3.1 3.4 6.3 5.1 5.5

Topeka .................................................................. 122.8 120.5 120.2 9.8 7.8 8.5 8.0 6.5 7.0

Wichita .................................................................. 310.2 304.0 305.9 28.1 21.7 23.3 9.1 7.1 7.6

Kentucky ................................................................. 2,050.8 2,065.2 2,041.0 220.4 178.3 193.8 10.7 8.6 9.5

Bowling Green ...................................................... 63.6 64.2 62.7 6.8 4.8 5.6 10.7 7.4 8.9

Elizabethtown ....................................................... 56.9 56.1 56.0 5.6 4.9 5.4 9.8 8.7 9.6

Lexington-Fayette ................................................. 237.3 239.7 235.3 21.2 16.6 18.5 8.9 6.9 7.9

Louisville-Jefferson County .................................. 625.5 635.5 629.8 67.4 56.4 60.4 10.8 8.9 9.6

Owensboro ........................................................... 57.6 58.3 57.7 5.6 4.3 4.8 9.7 7.3 8.4

Louisiana ................................................................. 2,044.7 2,043.3 2,020.8 173.3 134.4 152.6 8.5 6.6 7.5

Alexandria ............................................................. 67.9 66.9 65.0 5.5 4.3 4.9 8.0 6.5 7.6

Baton Rouge ......................................................... 373.7 372.8 367.8 31.7 24.5 27.8 8.5 6.6 7.6

Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux ........................... 99.3 102.9 100.9 6.5 4.6 5.4 6.5 4.5 5.3

Lafayette ............................................................... 134.4 138.4 138.5 9.2 6.7 7.7 6.9 4.8 5.5

Lake Charles ........................................................ 92.6 91.1 90.7 7.4 5.7 6.5 8.0 6.3 7.1

Monroe ................................................................. 80.3 79.9 79.3 7.1 5.6 6.5 8.8 7.0 8.2

New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner .............................. 536.0 533.7 532.0 43.9 34.8 39.4 8.2 6.5 7.4

Shreveport-Bossier City ........................................ 182.4 181.3 179.5 14.1 11.1 12.7 7.7 6.1 7.1

Maine ....................................................................... 692.7 703.8 698.7 62.0 49.3 55.4 8.9 7.0 7.9

Bangor .................................................................. 71.1 72.6 72.3 6.1 4.7 5.3 8.6 6.5 7.3

Lewiston-Auburn ................................................... 57.9 59.0 58.3 5.0 4.0 4.4 8.6 6.8 7.6

Portland-South Portland-Biddeford ....................... 201.6 204.4 203.5 14.5 11.4 12.9 7.2 5.6 6.3

Maryland .................................................................. 3,049.4 3,066.5 3,048.7 235.6 194.5 212.9 7.7 6.3 7.0

Baltimore-Towson ................................................. 1,429.4 1,441.9 1,432.6 116.3 95.6 104.9 8.1 6.6 7.3

Cumberland .......................................................... 49.9 52.2 51.5 4.9 3.9 4.3 9.8 7.6 8.4

Hagerstown-Martinsburg ...................................... 122.5 121.9 120.4 12.4 10.1 10.4 10.1 8.3 8.6

Salisbury ............................................................... 62.7 64.1 61.9 6.7 5.6 6.1 10.6 8.7 9.9

Massachusetts ........................................................ 3,442.0 3,445.1 3,431.6 295.0 226.0 264.5 8.6 6.6 7.7

Barnstable Town ................................................... 126.0 131.3 128.8 14.1 10.0 12.6 11.2 7.7 9.8

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy ................................... 2,521.8 2,522.9 2,521.7 190.3 148.0 170.7 7.5 5.9 6.8

Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner ............................. 72.7 71.1 71.8 8.1 6.3 7.2 11.2 8.8 10.1

New Bedford ......................................................... 86.4 85.0 86.1 11.5 8.4 10.4 13.3 9.9 12.1

Pittsfield ................................................................ 38.8 38.3 38.3 3.5 2.7 3.2 9.0 6.9 8.3

Springfield ............................................................. 345.9 344.7 339.3 34.3 25.9 30.7 9.9 7.5 9.0

Worcester ............................................................. 296.1 295.3 295.9 26.5 20.6 24.0 9.0 7.0 8.1

Michigan .................................................................. 4,626.5 4,617.5 4,593.8 538.2 413.6 447.4 11.6 9.0 9.7

Ann Arbor ............................................................. 178.5 181.2 176.3 12.1 9.8 9.8 6.8 5.4 5.6

Battle Creek .......................................................... 64.2 63.7 62.2 6.4 4.8 4.9 10.0 7.6 7.9

Bay City ................................................................ 51.5 51.6 51.3 5.8 4.4 4.8 11.3 8.5 9.3

Detroit-Warren-Livonia ......................................... 2,000.0 1,997.0 2,022.8 251.6 193.6 217.5 12.6 9.7 10.8

Flint ....................................................................... 184.8 185.5 181.2 23.2 17.6 18.1 12.6 9.5 10.0

Grand Rapids-Wyoming ....................................... 377.1 379.2 373.5 35.4 27.1 27.8 9.4 7.2 7.4

Holland-Grand Haven ........................................... 125.6 129.4 127.4 12.2 9.1 9.4 9.7 7.0 7.4

Jackson ................................................................ 70.7 71.0 69.8 8.1 6.1 6.3 11.4 8.6 9.0

Kalamazoo-Portage .............................................. 161.4 157.3 156.3 16.2 12.5 12.8 10.0 8.0 8.2

Lansing-East Lansing ........................................... 234.8 235.5 230.6 20.9 16.6 17.1 8.9 7.0 7.4

Monroe ................................................................. 68.9 67.6 65.6 8.1 5.7 5.9 11.8 8.4 9.0

Muskegon-Norton Shores ..................................... 80.9 82.2 80.6 9.5 7.3 7.7 11.7 8.8 9.5

Niles-Benton Harbor ............................................. 72.0 71.8 70.1 8.6 6.7 7.0 11.9 9.3 10.0

Saginaw-Saginaw Township North ....................... 90.0 89.6 88.1 9.9 7.7 8.2 11.0 8.6 9.3

Minnesota ................................................................ 2,940.2 2,967.2 2,942.3 224.6 170.8 187.9 7.6 5.8 6.4

Duluth ................................................................... 144.4 143.4 142.9 12.4 9.6 10.7 8.6 6.7 7.5

Mankato-North Mankato ....................................... 57.9 58.8 59.4 3.5 2.7 3.0 6.1 4.6 5.1

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington ....................... 1,823.9 1,853.6 1,834.4 131.1 101.7 109.1 7.2 5.5 5.9

Rochester ............................................................. 103.1 102.3 102.7 6.6 5.0 5.4 6.4 4.8 5.3

St. Cloud ............................................................... 107.6 108.2 108.7 8.7 6.4 7.3 8.1 5.9 6.7

See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area—Continued

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Mississippi .............................................................. 1,323.2 1,350.2 1,333.5 145.4 134.3 132.8 11.0 9.9 10.0

Gulfport-Biloxi ....................................................... 115.7 117.1 117.2 11.4 11.1 10.9 9.8 9.5 9.3

Hattiesburg ........................................................... 67.7 68.5 68.7 6.6 6.1 6.1 9.7 8.8 8.8

Jackson ................................................................ 265.8 272.3 269.9 23.4 21.6 21.5 8.8 7.9 8.0

Pascagoula ........................................................... 73.2 73.7 72.8 8.2 8.1 7.8 11.2 11.0 10.7

Missouri ................................................................... 3,027.8 3,032.8 2,997.1 293.8 235.5 227.4 9.7 7.8 7.6

Cape Girardeau-Jackson ...................................... 47.5 47.4 47.0 4.0 3.3 3.2 8.4 6.9 6.7

Columbia .............................................................. 92.9 99.7 97.8 6.4 4.9 4.7 6.8 4.9 4.8

Jefferson City ........................................................ 77.7 79.4 78.4 6.1 4.9 4.6 7.8 6.1 5.9

Joplin .................................................................... 87.2 88.2 86.9 7.2 5.9 5.4 8.2 6.7 6.2

Kansas City .......................................................... 1,044.1 1,055.9 1,046.1 97.0 76.6 75.1 9.3 7.3 7.2

St. Joseph ............................................................. 71.9 72.4 71.5 6.0 4.6 4.4 8.3 6.4 6.1

St. Louis1 .............................................................. 1,435.9 1,443.7 1,431.3 139.9 121.1 120.2 9.7 8.4 8.4

Springfield ............................................................. 221.8 224.9 220.9 19.4 15.5 14.6 8.7 6.9 6.6

Montana ................................................................... 496.8 500.3 500.2 40.0 33.4 37.1 8.1 6.7 7.4

Billings .................................................................. 86.4 85.8 85.5 5.1 4.1 4.6 6.0 4.8 5.4

Great Falls ............................................................ 40.3 39.9 40.2 2.8 2.3 2.6 7.1 5.8 6.5

Missoula ............................................................... 58.0 58.1 57.3 4.6 3.9 4.3 8.0 6.6 7.5

Nebraska ................................................................. 987.0 1,011.7 1,000.7 51.3 41.8 44.2 5.2 4.1 4.4

Lincoln .................................................................. 168.0 175.5 173.5 7.7 6.4 6.6 4.6 3.6 3.8

Omaha-Council Bluffs ........................................... 452.2 462.4 460.5 26.2 21.7 22.9 5.8 4.7 5.0

Nevada ..................................................................... 1,385.7 1,379.0 1,365.7 197.6 178.3 177.1 14.3 12.9 13.0

Carson City ........................................................... 28.9 28.2 27.9 4.2 3.6 3.8 14.5 12.8 13.5

Las Vegas-Paradise ............................................. 997.0 987.5 982.6 143.7 131.2 128.4 14.4 13.3 13.1

Reno-Sparks ......................................................... 226.1 226.2 222.4 32.1 28.0 28.9 14.2 12.4 13.0

New Hampshire ....................................................... 734.4 737.3 739.7 45.4 36.4 42.2 6.2 4.9 5.7

Manchester ........................................................... 107.5 107.9 108.1 6.4 5.2 5.9 5.9 4.8 5.5

Portsmouth ........................................................... 43.9 45.7 45.9 2.4 2.0 2.2 5.4 4.4 4.8

Rochester-Dover .................................................. 82.0 85.4 84.1 5.1 4.2 4.9 6.2 4.9 5.8

New Jersey .............................................................. 4,515.5 4,565.6 4,529.2 451.0 398.9 432.9 10.0 8.7 9.6

Atlantic City-Hammonton ...................................... 133.4 135.6 134.9 19.6 17.3 19.0 14.7 12.7 14.1

Ocean City ............................................................ 51.6 55.2 55.7 9.6 8.4 9.7 18.6 15.3 17.5

Trenton-Ewing ...................................................... 206.2 209.4 208.3 16.9 15.0 16.2 8.2 7.2 7.8

Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton .................................. 70.6 71.6 71.7 10.7 9.2 10.2 15.1 12.9 14.3

New Mexico ............................................................. 920.5 929.2 920.8 72.7 61.6 67.0 7.9 6.6 7.3

Albuquerque ......................................................... 394.8 398.1 394.7 32.1 27.9 30.1 8.1 7.0 7.6

Farmington ........................................................... 54.1 54.6 54.6 4.7 3.6 4.0 8.7 6.7 7.4

Las Cruces ........................................................... 90.6 93.2 90.4 7.4 6.3 6.9 8.2 6.7 7.6

Santa Fe ............................................................... 73.9 75.4 74.8 4.9 4.0 4.3 6.6 5.3 5.8

New York ................................................................. 9,487.9 9,470.5 9,449.9 843.7 759.5 866.3 8.9 8.0 9.2

Albany-Schenectady-Troy .................................... 438.9 436.8 437.6 35.3 30.5 35.4 8.0 7.0 8.1

Binghamton .......................................................... 119.4 118.0 118.0 11.5 9.8 11.4 9.6 8.3 9.6

Buffalo-Niagara Falls ............................................ 573.2 563.9 565.1 52.0 45.0 51.7 9.1 8.0 9.1

Elmira ................................................................... 40.5 38.7 38.6 3.5 3.1 3.5 8.7 8.0 9.0

Glens Falls ............................................................ 66.3 67.3 67.7 6.4 5.6 6.4 9.7 8.3 9.5

Ithaca .................................................................... 55.1 54.0 51.6 3.5 3.0 3.6 6.4 5.6 6.9

Kingston ................................................................ 87.2 88.2 87.4 8.0 7.0 7.9 9.1 7.9 9.1

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island ....... 9,395.0 9,440.7 9,400.3 851.5 774.2 863.2 9.1 8.2 9.2

 New York City .................................................... 3,942.4 3,948.0 3,945.7 369.4 348.6 395.7 9.4 8.8 10.0

Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown .................. 317.4 317.9 317.3 26.8 23.2 26.4 8.4 7.3 8.3

Rochester ............................................................. 520.8 522.7 520.1 44.9 39.2 44.5 8.6 7.5 8.6

Syracuse ............................................................... 321.6 318.0 316.1 29.8 26.0 30.0 9.3 8.2 9.5

Utica-Rome ........................................................... 138.3 139.7 139.5 12.9 11.4 13.0 9.3 8.1 9.3

North Carolina ......................................................... 4,590.8 4,643.6 4,654.0 509.6 474.7 488.4 11.1 10.2 10.5

Asheville ............................................................... 211.0 216.6 219.2 20.2 17.6 18.9 9.6 8.1 8.6

Burlington ............................................................. 71.7 72.6 72.8 8.1 7.2 7.5 11.3 10.0 10.3

Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill ................................ 887.5 890.9 895.4 103.9 92.3 93.1 11.7 10.4 10.4

Durham-Chapel Hill .............................................. 261.9 266.7 269.0 21.6 21.0 21.6 8.3 7.9 8.0

Fayetteville ........................................................... 161.3 165.9 166.2 16.6 16.8 17.1 10.3 10.1 10.3

Goldsboro ............................................................. 53.9 54.4 54.7 5.2 5.0 5.1 9.6 9.2 9.3

Greensboro-High Point ......................................... 369.6 373.6 375.9 42.5 39.2 40.1 11.5 10.5 10.7

Greenville ............................................................. 92.6 93.6 93.0 10.1 9.4 9.4 10.9 10.0 10.1

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton .................................... 171.1 168.9 170.4 23.2 20.7 20.9 13.6 12.3 12.3

Jacksonville .......................................................... 66.9 67.1 68.1 6.2 6.1 6.2 9.2 9.0 9.2

Raleigh-Cary ......................................................... 574.2 585.7 590.6 50.7 48.4 49.7 8.8 8.3 8.4

Rocky Mount ......................................................... 72.4 72.4 72.5 10.2 9.9 10.1 14.1 13.6 13.9

Wilmington ............................................................ 177.9 178.8 179.4 20.2 19.4 20.3 11.3 10.9 11.3

Winston-Salem ..................................................... 240.1 243.4 244.5 25.5 23.0 23.8 10.6 9.5 9.7

See footnotes at end of table.
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NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p

Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p

North Dakota ........................................................... 371.2 382.6 381.5 16.3 12.5 14.6 4.4 3.3 3.8

Bismarck ............................................................... 63.3 62.7 62.3 2.8 2.0 2.4 4.4 3.2 3.8

Fargo .................................................................... 121.2 122.1 121.1 5.6 4.5 5.1 4.6 3.7 4.2

Grand Forks .......................................................... 55.8 54.9 53.9 2.7 2.4 2.8 4.9 4.4 5.1

Ohio ......................................................................... 5,754.1 5,762.3 5,726.2 572.9 439.6 495.0 10.0 7.6 8.6

Akron .................................................................... 371.3 371.1 365.4 36.6 27.3 30.9 9.9 7.4 8.4

Canton-Massillon .................................................. 197.8 199.4 197.8 21.7 15.7 17.6 11.0 7.9 8.9

Cincinnati-Middletown .......................................... 1,081.9 1,095.1 1,086.7 105.3 83.0 91.5 9.7 7.6 8.4

Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor ....................................... 1,064.4 1,073.9 1,078.9 91.9 74.7 87.3 8.6 7.0 8.1

Columbus ............................................................. 945.4 956.3 947.5 80.0 61.2 68.9 8.5 6.4 7.3

Dayton .................................................................. 407.6 409.2 407.6 42.5 32.8 35.9 10.4 8.0 8.8

Lima ...................................................................... 49.7 50.0 49.4 5.4 4.1 4.7 10.8 8.3 9.5

Mansfield .............................................................. 59.2 58.4 58.1 7.1 5.4 5.9 11.9 9.2 10.1

Sandusky .............................................................. 39.8 39.9 40.4 4.4 3.4 4.2 11.2 8.5 10.3

Springfield ............................................................. 68.7 68.6 68.1 7.0 5.5 6.0 10.2 7.9 8.8

Steubenville-Weirton ............................................ 55.0 54.1 53.6 7.5 5.6 6.1 13.6 10.3 11.3

Toledo ................................................................... 317.7 319.7 316.2 35.6 26.9 30.2 11.2 8.4 9.5

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman ........................... 266.4 264.8 265.4 29.6 22.0 24.6 11.1 8.3 9.3

Oklahoma ................................................................ 1,750.9 1,780.4 1,763.4 118.2 109.8 112.2 6.7 6.2 6.4

Lawton .................................................................. 48.6 46.9 47.1 3.3 3.5 3.7 6.8 7.4 7.8

Oklahoma City ...................................................... 570.8 583.8 576.6 34.9 33.5 33.9 6.1 5.7 5.9

Tulsa ..................................................................... 435.2 439.8 435.8 33.1 29.8 30.4 7.6 6.8 7.0

Oregon ..................................................................... 1,973.0 1,983.7 1,974.8 211.6 174.8 190.0 10.7 8.8 9.6

Bend ..................................................................... 79.9 79.1 79.8 11.9 9.5 10.4 14.8 12.0 13.0

Corvallis ................................................................ 44.6 44.9 44.3 3.1 2.7 2.7 6.9 5.9 6.2

Eugene-Springfield ............................................... 181.9 178.5 177.8 19.3 15.4 16.4 10.6 8.6 9.2

Medford ................................................................ 101.4 102.2 100.7 13.2 10.6 12.1 13.0 10.4 12.0

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro ............................... 1,193.2 1,200.2 1,192.1 121.5 96.3 101.2 10.2 8.0 8.5

Salem ................................................................... 193.9 196.2 194.7 21.5 18.1 19.7 11.1 9.2 10.1

Pennsylvania ........................................................... 6,365.7 6,363.2 6,331.5 552.4 463.6 526.2 8.7 7.3 8.3

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton ............................... 420.7 420.3 420.8 40.3 33.3 37.6 9.6 7.9 8.9

Altoona ................................................................. 64.5 65.2 64.4 5.0 4.3 4.9 7.7 6.7 7.6

Erie ....................................................................... 139.2 140.3 137.9 12.6 10.5 11.8 9.0 7.5 8.6

Harrisburg-Carlisle ................................................ 282.7 280.8 281.3 22.0 18.4 20.7 7.8 6.5 7.4

Johnstown ............................................................ 68.7 67.8 67.5 6.5 5.5 6.3 9.5 8.1 9.3

Lancaster .............................................................. 264.2 264.0 261.8 19.8 16.3 18.3 7.5 6.2 7.0

Lebanon ................................................................ 73.0 72.2 71.7 5.3 4.3 4.9 7.2 5.9 6.8

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington ........................ 2,976.6 2,968.6 2,953.2 268.9 235.0 260.1 9.0 7.9 8.8

Pittsburgh ............................................................. 1,223.3 1,236.5 1,222.8 98.9 81.6 93.4 8.1 6.6 7.6

Reading ................................................................ 203.7 204.2 203.6 18.4 15.1 17.1 9.0 7.4 8.4

Scranton—Wilkes-Barre ....................................... 281.3 281.4 281.3 28.9 24.1 27.8 10.3 8.5 9.9

State College ........................................................ 73.8 76.4 74.6 4.4 3.9 4.5 6.0 5.1 6.0

Williamsport .......................................................... 61.0 61.7 61.8 5.3 4.3 4.9 8.7 7.0 7.9

York-Hanover ....................................................... 224.2 224.5 223.2 19.0 16.1 18.1 8.5 7.2 8.1

Rhode Island ........................................................... 564.5 562.4 556.5 69.4 60.1 65.3 12.3 10.7 11.7

Providence-Fall River-Warwick ............................ 700.0 696.6 691.0 85.6 72.8 80.6 12.2 10.4 11.7

South Carolina ........................................................ 2,128.4 2,136.3 2,119.6 235.9 202.4 202.1 11.1 9.5 9.5

Anderson .............................................................. 83.8 82.3 81.7 9.2 7.4 7.4 10.9 8.9 9.1

Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville ........... 322.9 326.9 325.7 27.7 25.3 25.0 8.6 7.7 7.7

Columbia .............................................................. 364.3 367.6 365.9 32.3 29.6 28.9 8.9 8.1 7.9

Florence ................................................................ 92.0 92.5 93.0 11.2 9.6 9.7 12.1 10.4 10.4

Greenville-Mauldin-Easley .................................... 309.5 313.5 309.8 27.7 23.7 23.5 9.0 7.6 7.6

Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach-Conway .......... 120.6 124.1 123.0 18.1 14.9 16.2 15.0 12.0 13.2

Spartanburg .......................................................... 131.1 132.1 131.6 14.7 12.4 12.4 11.2 9.4 9.5

Sumter .................................................................. 45.2 44.6 44.2 5.2 4.7 4.7 11.6 10.6 10.7

South Dakota .......................................................... 435.6 445.3 438.6 24.6 20.2 20.8 5.6 4.5 4.7

Rapid City ............................................................. 65.1 67.1 65.9 3.8 3.1 3.1 5.9 4.6 4.7

Sioux Falls ............................................................ 128.4 131.1 130.1 7.0 5.6 5.9 5.4 4.2 4.5

Tennessee ............................................................... 3,096.2 3,131.3 3,097.9 316.8 254.3 268.8 10.2 8.1 8.7

Chattanooga ......................................................... 259.0 262.4 259.6 23.9 19.2 20.3 9.2 7.3 7.8

Clarksville ............................................................. 114.0 114.8 113.7 12.4 10.1 10.8 10.9 8.8 9.5

Cleveland .............................................................. 54.5 54.2 53.7 5.7 4.4 4.8 10.5 8.1 8.9

Jackson ................................................................ 57.4 56.9 56.3 5.8 4.9 5.1 10.0 8.6 9.0

Johnson City ......................................................... 102.0 103.4 101.5 9.8 7.4 7.8 9.6 7.1 7.7

See footnotes at end of table.
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NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p

Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p

Tennessee—Continued

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol ........................................ 148.9 149.3 147.8 13.3 10.7 11.5 9.0 7.2 7.8

Knoxville ............................................................... 368.7 376.7 374.1 30.0 23.7 25.0 8.1 6.3 6.7

Memphis ............................................................... 615.0 633.9 621.8 64.1 56.3 58.4 10.4 8.9 9.4

Morristown ............................................................ 63.4 62.5 61.7 7.8 6.2 6.6 12.3 9.9 10.7

Nashville-Davidson—Murfreesboro—Franklin ..... 828.5 839.6 831.5 73.0 57.4 59.8 8.8 6.8 7.2

Texas ....................................................................... 12,335.9 12,494.0 12,462.4 1,040.2 887.0 946.8 8.4 7.1 7.6

Abilene .................................................................. 84.5 83.0 82.9 5.6 4.7 5.1 6.7 5.7 6.2

Amarillo ................................................................. 134.2 136.0 134.5 7.6 6.5 7.0 5.7 4.8 5.2

Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos .......................... 928.7 939.1 946.4 65.8 57.1 61.3 7.1 6.1 6.5

Beaumont-Port Arthur ........................................... 189.9 187.2 188.8 22.1 19.1 20.2 11.7 10.2 10.7

Brownsville-Harlingen ........................................... 162.6 162.3 162.5 20.2 17.7 18.8 12.4 10.9 11.6

College Station-Bryan ........................................... 114.8 115.2 111.5 7.9 6.6 7.1 6.9 5.7 6.3

Corpus Christi ....................................................... 213.2 219.6 218.6 18.7 15.1 16.1 8.8 6.9 7.3

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington .................................. 3,256.1 3,293.0 3,283.2 270.3 228.9 244.6 8.3 7.0 7.4

El Paso ................................................................. 326.7 327.6 327.9 34.6 30.8 32.7 10.6 9.4 10.0

Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown ............................. 2,944.3 3,013.1 3,008.6 255.5 217.8 230.1 8.7 7.2 7.6

Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood .................................... 170.8 171.0 170.0 13.9 13.1 14.1 8.2 7.6 8.3

Laredo .................................................................. 99.0 102.6 103.0 8.6 7.1 7.8 8.7 6.9 7.6

Longview .............................................................. 113.0 114.5 114.2 8.4 6.9 7.4 7.4 6.0 6.5

Lubbock ................................................................ 146.7 149.4 147.8 9.4 8.0 8.7 6.4 5.4 5.9

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission .................................... 317.9 323.8 324.4 41.0 36.0 38.0 12.9 11.1 11.7

Midland ................................................................. 81.1 85.0 83.9 4.0 3.2 3.5 4.9 3.7 4.1

Odessa ................................................................. 75.7 80.5 80.3 5.2 3.7 4.0 6.8 4.6 4.9

San Angelo ........................................................... 55.3 57.0 57.1 3.7 3.1 3.4 6.7 5.4 5.9

San Antonio-New Braunfels ................................. 1,004.3 1,008.0 1,007.9 78.2 67.7 73.3 7.8 6.7 7.3

Sherman-Denison ................................................. 57.7 59.2 58.5 5.0 4.4 4.6 8.7 7.4 7.9

Texarkana ............................................................. 65.8 67.3 67.1 5.3 4.6 5.0 8.0 6.9 7.5

Tyler ...................................................................... 103.0 106.2 104.9 8.5 7.7 8.1 8.2 7.2 7.7

Victoria .................................................................. 60.1 60.6 59.1 4.5 3.7 3.9 7.4 6.2 6.7

Waco .................................................................... 115.7 115.9 113.8 8.7 7.7 8.3 7.5 6.7 7.3

Wichita Falls ......................................................... 73.6 72.0 71.5 5.6 4.6 4.9 7.6 6.4 6.9

Utah .......................................................................... 1,343.0 1,329.3 1,325.3 105.7 73.1 81.4 7.9 5.5 6.1

Logan .................................................................... 67.5 67.4 66.2 3.9 2.6 3.1 5.7 3.8 4.6

Ogden-Clearfield .................................................. 258.8 252.8 254.2 20.5 14.7 16.1 7.9 5.8 6.4

Provo-Orem .......................................................... 223.9 221.4 221.4 17.3 11.3 13.0 7.7 5.1 5.9

St. George ............................................................ 56.5 55.5 54.6 6.0 4.1 4.5 10.5 7.3 8.3

Salt Lake City ....................................................... 602.5 597.9 598.9 44.9 31.5 34.7 7.4 5.3 5.8

Vermont ................................................................... 358.1 358.6 358.0 24.6 17.5 20.2 6.9 4.9 5.6

Burlington-South Burlington .................................. 114.7 115.9 114.8 6.4 4.5 5.2 5.6 3.9 4.6

Virginia .................................................................... 4,251.9 4,319.4 4,295.9 291.4 254.9 259.5 6.9 5.9 6.0

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford ..................... 79.3 87.8 84.0 6.2 5.2 5.2 7.9 5.9 6.2

Charlottesville ....................................................... 108.3 113.6 113.1 6.3 5.5 5.7 5.8 4.9 5.0

Danville ................................................................. 52.9 52.7 52.7 5.7 4.6 4.7 10.8 8.7 8.9

Harrisonburg ......................................................... 68.2 69.5 68.6 4.4 4.0 3.9 6.5 5.7 5.6

Lynchburg ............................................................. 124.9 123.6 123.8 9.9 8.2 8.4 7.9 6.7 6.8

Richmond ............................................................. 668.6 677.7 677.7 50.5 44.3 44.6 7.6 6.5 6.6

Roanoke ............................................................... 160.3 160.2 159.6 11.8 10.0 10.1 7.4 6.3 6.3

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News ................. 833.8 844.3 838.6 62.4 57.5 58.2 7.5 6.8 6.9

Winchester ............................................................ 66.9 68.0 68.1 5.0 4.3 4.4 7.4 6.3 6.5

Washington ............................................................. 3,472.5 3,477.6 3,473.3 359.9 296.9 309.6 10.4 8.5 8.9

Bellingham ............................................................ 106.2 106.4 105.0 10.2 8.5 8.8 9.6 7.9 8.3

Bremerton-Silverdale ............................................ 123.8 123.7 121.6 10.6 9.4 9.6 8.6 7.6 7.9

Kennewick-Pasco-Richland .................................. 131.7 131.8 129.8 12.0 12.7 13.0 9.1 9.6 10.0

Longview .............................................................. 44.0 43.2 43.0 5.9 4.9 5.0 13.5 11.4 11.7

Mount Vernon-Anacortes ...................................... 56.9 56.8 55.8 6.7 5.8 5.9 11.8 10.2 10.7

Olympia ................................................................ 130.0 131.6 128.8 11.6 10.5 10.7 8.9 8.0 8.3

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue ..................................... 1,873.2 1,886.2 1,905.2 179.6 145.5 154.5 9.6 7.7 8.1

Spokane ............................................................... 235.1 233.2 228.2 25.7 21.3 22.4 10.9 9.1 9.8

Wenatchee-East Wenatchee ................................ 58.4 58.7 58.0 6.2 5.3 5.6 10.7 9.1 9.6

Yakima .................................................................. 119.6 118.8 118.5 14.7 14.0 14.3 12.3 11.8 12.1

West Virginia ........................................................... 790.6 796.8 790.0 72.7 59.2 61.6 9.2 7.4 7.8

Charleston ............................................................ 136.1 136.2 135.3 11.4 9.4 9.5 8.4 6.9 7.0

Huntington-Ashland .............................................. 127.3 128.4 127.6 11.8 9.7 10.4 9.3 7.6 8.2

Morgantown .......................................................... 63.8 66.3 64.7 4.3 3.6 3.7 6.7 5.4 5.8

Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna ............................... 76.1 75.9 74.7 7.6 6.0 6.5 10.0 7.9 8.7

Wheeling ............................................................... 68.0 67.9 67.0 7.2 5.1 5.7 10.6 7.5 8.4

See footnotes at end of table.
LABOR FORCE DATA LABOR FORCE DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

(Numbers in thousands)

State and area

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p

Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p

Wisconsin ................................................................ 3,043.4 3,038.4 3,027.0 257.6 199.5 229.1 8.5 6.6 7.6

Appleton ............................................................... 124.4 124.1 124.5 9.5 7.3 8.4 7.7 5.9 6.7

Eau Claire ............................................................. 88.8 89.2 88.5 6.9 5.3 6.2 7.7 6.0 7.0

Fond du Lac .......................................................... 54.9 55.3 55.6 4.5 3.4 4.0 8.3 6.2 7.2

Green Bay ............................................................ 171.9 172.4 173.0 13.7 10.7 12.3 8.0 6.2 7.1

Janesville .............................................................. 79.0 77.6 76.9 8.6 6.4 7.2 10.8 8.3 9.4

La Crosse ............................................................. 75.8 76.9 76.0 5.2 3.9 4.7 6.9 5.1 6.2

Madison ................................................................ 343.3 343.3 340.9 20.2 16.0 18.0 5.9 4.7 5.3

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis ......................... 790.7 788.4 787.4 67.8 54.7 60.9 8.6 6.9 7.7

Oshkosh-Neenah .................................................. 95.7 96.4 95.9 6.8 5.5 6.2 7.1 5.7 6.5

Racine .................................................................. 98.1 97.2 97.1 9.6 7.7 8.7 9.8 7.9 9.0

Sheboygan ........................................................... 61.9 60.9 61.4 5.5 4.0 4.4 8.8 6.5 7.2

Wausau ................................................................ 73.0 72.0 71.9 6.2 4.7 5.5 8.6 6.5 7.6

Wyoming ................................................................. 300.0 304.4 303.4 22.1 17.1 19.2 7.4 5.6 6.3

Casper .................................................................. 42.3 43.5 43.5 3.1 2.3 2.5 7.4 5.4 5.8

Cheyenne ............................................................. 44.6 45.3 45.6 3.7 2.9 3.3 8.2 6.5 7.3

Puerto Rico ............................................................. 1,289.6 1,288.1 1,297.7 202.7 170.4 198.7 15.7 13.2 15.3

Aguadilla-Isabela-San Sebastian ......................... 109.2 107.5 108.4 18.2 15.3 17.9 16.6 14.3 16.5

Fajardo ................................................................. 26.9 26.1 26.3 4.9 4.2 4.7 18.2 15.9 17.9

Guayama .............................................................. 26.2 26.0 25.8 5.9 4.9 5.6 22.3 18.9 21.9

Mayaguez ............................................................. 35.1 34.5 35.1 6.2 4.9 5.9 17.7 14.3 16.7

Ponce ................................................................... 88.0 87.7 88.6 14.1 12.1 13.9 16.0 13.7 15.7

San German-Cabo Rojo ....................................... 48.7 49.7 48.9 7.6 6.7 7.9 15.6 13.5 16.1

San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo ............................... 860.3 862.0 867.6 127.6 106.1 124.3 14.8 12.3 14.3

Yauco ................................................................... 36.2 36.4 36.8 6.6 5.7 6.6 18.3 15.5 17.9

1 Area boundaries do not reflect official OMB definitions. 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 definitions are based on

Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 10-02, dated

December 1, 2009, 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 that appears first

in their titles. Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, Iowa-Ill., is the

exception in that it is listed under Illinois for operational

reasons. Data for 2011 have been revised to incorporate

updated inputs and adjustment to new state controls.

Estimates for the latest month are subject to revision the

following month.
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NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 2. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state, selected metropolitan area, and metropolitan division 1

(Numbers in thousands)

State, area, and division 

Civilian labor force

Unemployed

Number Percent of labor force

Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p

Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p Jan.

2011

Dec.

2011

Jan.

2012p

California .......................................................................... 18,299.7 18,432.2 18,365.9 2,315.2 2,017.8 2,082.4 12.7 10.9 11.3

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ............................... 6,518.0 6,550.5 6,494.4 780.2 699.3 717.2 12.0 10.7 11.0

 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale ............................... 4,926.1 4,931.6 4,891.7 633.8 573.4 589.7 12.9 11.6 12.1

 Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine ............................................ 1,591.9 1,618.9 1,602.6 146.3 126.0 127.5 9.2 7.8 8.0

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont ..................................... 2,247.7 2,279.0 2,273.6 228.5 191.8 197.7 10.2 8.4 8.7

 Oakland-Fremont-Hayward ........................................... 1,280.4 1,289.4 1,288.7 142.8 120.0 123.4 11.1 9.3 9.6

 San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City ..................... 967.2 989.6 984.9 85.7 71.8 74.3 8.9 7.3 7.5

District of Columbia ...................................................... 344.1 342.3 344.9 36.0 33.7 35.3 10.5 9.8 10.2

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 2 .................................. 3,149.3 3,181.6 3,173.4 194.2 170.9 179.4 6.2 5.4 5.7

 Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick 3 ..................................... 652.6 648.3 649.4 37.3 31.0 34.1 5.7 4.8 5.2

 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 2 ............................... 2,496.7 2,533.3 2,524.0 156.9 139.9 145.3 6.3 5.5 5.8

Florida ................................................................................ 9,130.1 9,278.3 9,199.3 1,011.5 900.3 875.4 11.1 9.7 9.5

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach .......................... 2,839.0 2,894.8 2,897.9 307.8 275.9 269.7 10.8 9.5 9.3

 Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach ....... 978.3 991.9 980.6 94.6 84.6 81.4 9.7 8.5 8.3

 Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall .......................................... 1,245.2 1,279.1 1,301.9 144.1 130.2 129.2 11.6 10.2 9.9

 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach ............ 615.5 623.9 615.5 69.1 61.2 59.1 11.2 9.8 9.6

Illinois ................................................................................ 6,496.3 6,554.8 6,522.2 654.3 610.5 648.3 10.1 9.3 9.9

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville 2 ............................................... 4,771.8 4,826.0 4,780.6 475.3 447.2 460.6 10.0 9.3 9.6

 Chicago-Joliet-Naperville ............................................... 4,012.4 4,053.8 4,011.7 396.5 377.0 383.2 9.9 9.3 9.6

 Gary 3 ............................................................................ 321.5 331.0 325.0 32.5 29.6 31.5 10.1 9.0 9.7

 Lake County-Kenosha County 2 .................................... 437.9 441.1 443.8 46.3 40.5 45.9 10.6 9.2 10.4

Massachusetts ............................................................... 3,442.0 3,445.1 3,431.6 295.0 226.0 264.5 8.6 6.6 7.7

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy 2 ............................................ 2,521.8 2,522.9 2,521.7 190.3 148.0 170.7 7.5 5.9 6.8

 Boston-Cambridge-Quincy ............................................ 1,524.6 1,525.3 1,521.7 108.3 83.4 95.9 7.1 5.5 6.3

 Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton ........................................ 127.5 126.9 126.6 12.6 9.7 11.2 9.9 7.6 8.8

 Framingham .................................................................. 147.5 148.7 148.7 9.6 7.2 8.5 6.5 4.8 5.7

 Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury 2 ............................ 123.7 124.3 124.5 9.8 7.7 9.0 7.9 6.2 7.2

 Lawrence-Methuen-Salem 2 .......................................... 73.9 73.3 73.8 9.5 7.8 8.8 12.8 10.6 11.9

 Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford 2 ........................................ 154.1 154.7 155.2 13.2 10.4 12.1 8.6 6.8 7.8

 Nashua 2 ....................................................................... 177.5 176.1 178.2 11.1 9.1 10.4 6.2 5.2 5.8

 Peabody ........................................................................ 129.1 130.1 129.5 10.4 8.3 9.7 8.0 6.4 7.5

 Taunton-Norton-Raynham ............................................. 63.8 63.4 63.5 5.9 4.4 5.2 9.3 6.9 8.2

Michigan ........................................................................... 4,626.5 4,617.5 4,593.8 538.2 413.6 447.4 11.6 9.0 9.7

Detroit-Warren-Livonia ..................................................... 2,000.0 1,997.0 2,022.8 251.6 193.6 217.5 12.6 9.7 10.8

 Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn ............................................... 819.3 810.8 820.8 110.7 87.1 97.1 13.5 10.7 11.8

 Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills ....................................... 1,180.7 1,186.3 1,202.0 140.9 106.5 120.4 11.9 9.0 10.0

New York .......................................................................... 9,487.9 9,470.5 9,449.9 843.7 759.5 866.3 8.9 8.0 9.2

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island 2 ................ 9,395.0 9,440.7 9,400.3 851.5 774.2 863.2 9.1 8.2 9.2

 Edison-New Brunswick 3 ............................................... 1,198.8 1,214.4 1,199.6 109.8 99.2 107.5 9.2 8.2 9.0

 Nassau-Suffolk .............................................................. 1,451.9 1,453.6 1,448.0 113.9 99.4 112.7 7.8 6.8 7.8

 New York-White Plains-Wayne 2 ................................... 5,651.3 5,668.9 5,655.7 521.4 482.4 542.0 9.2 8.5 9.6

 Newark-Union 3 ............................................................. 1,093.1 1,103.7 1,097.0 106.3 93.1 101.0 9.7 8.4 9.2

Pennsylvania ................................................................... 6,365.7 6,363.2 6,331.5 552.4 463.6 526.2 8.7 7.3 8.3

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 2 ................................. 2,976.6 2,968.6 2,953.2 268.9 235.0 260.1 9.0 7.9 8.8

 Camden 3 ...................................................................... 666.4 666.6 661.2 69.4 61.1 65.6 10.4 9.2 9.9

 Philadelphia ................................................................... 1,954.6 1,945.8 1,938.1 168.7 148.3 166.7 8.6 7.6 8.6

 Wilmington 3 .................................................................. 355.6 356.2 353.8 30.9 25.7 27.7 8.7 7.2 7.8

Texas .................................................................................. 12,335.9 12,494.0 12,462.4 1,040.2 887.0 946.8 8.4 7.1 7.6

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington .............................................. 3,256.1 3,293.0 3,283.2 270.3 228.9 244.6 8.3 7.0 7.4

 Dallas-Plano-Irving ........................................................ 2,175.5 2,195.1 2,188.6 180.6 154.0 164.4 8.3 7.0 7.5

 Fort Worth-Arlington ...................................................... 1,080.6 1,097.8 1,094.6 89.7 74.9 80.1 8.3 6.8 7.3

Washington ..................................................................... 3,472.5 3,477.6 3,473.3 359.9 296.9 309.6 10.4 8.5 8.9

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue ................................................. 1,873.2 1,886.2 1,905.2 179.6 145.5 154.5 9.6 7.7 8.1

 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett ................................................ 1,481.9 1,492.1 1,517.5 137.9 109.0 117.4 9.3 7.3 7.7

 Tacoma .......................................................................... 391.2 394.1 387.7 41.7 36.5 37.0 10.7 9.3 9.6

1 These 11 areas contain all of the 34 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 definitions are

based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No.

10-02, dated December 1, 2009, and are 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 that corresponds to the first city in their title. 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. Three sets of metropolitan areas and divisions have similar

or identical titles. For Washington-Arlington-Alexandria,

D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va., the metropolitan area and division titles are

identical. For the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass.-N.H., and

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, Ill.-Ind.-Wis., metropolitan areas, the

division titles are similar but include only Massachusetts and

Illinois, respectively. Data for 2011 have been revised to

incorporate updated inputs and adjustment to new state controls.

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

December January

Change from

January 2011 to January

2012p

2010 2011 2011 2012p Number Percent

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,882.4 1,871.2 1,839.4 1,841.5 2.1 0.1

Anniston-Oxford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.4 47.9 48.4 47.5 -0.9 -1.9

Auburn-Opelika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.3 53.8 52.0 53.3 1.3 2.5

Birmingham-Hoover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492.9 490.7 482.5 481.4 -1.1 -0.2

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.4 54.6 51.9 53.7 1.8 3.5

Dothan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.4 57.8 56.8 57.4 0.6 1.1

Florence-Muscle Shoals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.3 55.3 53.7 54.8 1.1 2.0

Gadsden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.8 36.0 35.2 35.1 -0.1 -0.3

Huntsville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210.8 206.8 206.2 202.9 -3.3 -1.6

Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.5 175.7 172.1 173.2 1.1 0.6

Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169.3 164.3 164.9 163.0 -1.9 -1.2

Tuscaloosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.8 93.3 92.7 92.1 -0.6 -0.6

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314.4 313.2 308.8 308.5 -0.3 -0.1

Anchorage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.6 170.9 168.5 166.9 -1.6 -0.9

Fairbanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.2 38.0 36.3 36.1 -0.2 -0.6

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,425.3 2,448.2 2,376.1 2,413.9 37.8 1.6

Flagstaff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.9 59.2 58.9 57.5 -1.4 -2.4

Lake Havasu City-Kingman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.1 45.7 45.2 44.9 -0.3 -0.7

Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,724.9 1,750.1 1,691.2 1,723.9 32.7 1.9

Prescott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.9 53.4 52.7 52.1 -0.6 -1.1

Tucson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359.8 358.9 352.1 355.1 3.0 0.9

Yuma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.7 49.2 50.1 49.0 -1.1 -2.2

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,171.2 1,164.1 1,144.3 1,148.2 3.9 0.3

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203.3 205.0 198.6 202.8 4.2 2.1

Fort Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.6 109.9 114.9 108.5 -6.4 -5.6

Hot Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.8 36.8 36.6 36.6 0.0 0.0

Jonesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.8 49.2 48.8 48.8 0.0 0.0

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341.9 341.6 333.9 337.1 3.2 1.0

Pine Bluff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.2 36.5 36.3 36.7 0.4 1.1

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,155.6 14,277.8 13,861.9 14,019.5 157.6 1.1

Bakersfield-Delano. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230.5 235.6 226.8 234.0 7.2 3.2

Chico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.0 68.0 66.1 65.7 -0.4 -0.6

El Centro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.7 44.9 44.5 45.6 1.1 2.5

Fresno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280.0 282.2 274.4 279.2 4.8 1.7

Hanford-Corcoran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.1 36.9 34.6 36.0 1.4 4.0

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,211.0 5,245.6 5,109.8 5,131.0 21.2 0.4

Madera-Chowchilla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.0 31.9 31.6 31.5 -0.1 -0.3

Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.0 56.4 55.0 55.7 0.7 1.3

Modesto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.0 143.9 143.0 141.0 -2.0 -1.4

Napa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.5 61.3 57.9 59.3 1.4 2.4

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278.8 278.2 272.6 273.9 1.3 0.5

Redding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.4 58.9 55.9 57.1 1.2 2.1

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,144.9 1,153.1 1,120.8 1,140.2 19.4 1.7

Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810.1 804.2 799.0 793.9 -5.1 -0.6

Salinas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.3 123.5 117.3 120.6 3.3 2.8

San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,239.3 1,251.0 1,217.1 1,228.5 11.4 0.9

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,902.0 1,923.6 1,869.1 1,895.7 26.6 1.4

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872.7 897.7 859.3 884.0 24.7 2.9

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.7 94.7 95.8 93.7 -2.1 -2.2

Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162.9 166.2 158.4 162.2 3.8 2.4

Santa Cruz-Watsonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.8 87.8 84.5 87.1 2.6 3.1

Santa Rosa-Petaluma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170.6 168.2 166.7 167.1 0.4 0.2

Stockton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186.3 190.7 182.3 188.2 5.9 3.2

Vallejo-Fairfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.5 120.7 116.0 119.7 3.7 3.2

Visalia-Porterville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.4 105.1 103.4 102.8 -0.6 -0.6

Yuba City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.8 37.5 35.6 37.1 1.5 4.2

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,254.7 2,285.1 2,202.9 2,250.3 47.4 2.2

Boulder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162.9 165.8 158.4 161.8 3.4 2.1

Colorado Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247.7 247.8 243.2 243.4 0.2 0.1

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

December January

Change from

January 2011 to January

2012p

2010 2011 2011 2012p Number Percent

Colorado - Continued

Denver-Aurora-Broomfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,206.9 1,224.8 1,180.4 1,209.5 29.1 2.5

Fort Collins-Loveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135.1 136.9 130.6 133.6 3.0 2.3

Grand Junction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.1 60.7 57.2 59.8 2.6 4.5

Greeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.1 80.4 78.5 77.9 -0.6 -0.8

Pueblo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.6 59.2 56.9 58.2 1.3 2.3

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,639.3 1,644.5 1,591.4 1,601.6 10.2 0.6

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403.2 402.4 391.2 388.3 -2.9 -0.7

Danbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.6 68.5 64.8 66.4 1.6 2.5

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544.1 548.1 530.8 534.9 4.1 0.8

New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267.9 269.6 262.0 263.2 1.2 0.5

Norwich-New London. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.5 126.5 126.0 123.9 -2.1 -1.7

Waterbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.2 63.1 60.5 61.9 1.4 2.3

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420.4 419.4 406.8 407.4 0.6 0.1

Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.3 64.8 63.1 63.1 0.0 0.0

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716.8 735.8 713.3 724.3 11.0 1.5

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,003.2 3,030.3 2,944.4 2,973.1 28.7 1.0

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,309.3 7,392.2 7,196.1 7,271.0 74.9 1.0

Cape Coral-Fort Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.6 206.0 201.5 204.7 3.2 1.6

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.2 81.3 75.7 80.3 4.6 6.1

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154.0 158.6 152.9 153.8 0.9 0.6

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127.7 126.1 126.9 124.6 -2.3 -1.8

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594.2 600.6 583.7 588.7 5.0 0.9

Lakeland-Winter Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198.2 196.8 194.9 193.1 -1.8 -0.9

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,237.0 2,260.4 2,201.7 2,228.1 26.4 1.2

Naples-Marco Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.9 117.8 114.5 119.2 4.7 4.1

North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241.4 243.5 237.5 240.9 3.4 1.4

Ocala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.6 91.4 90.2 90.1 -0.1 -0.1

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,014.5 1,026.1 998.3 1,006.1 7.8 0.8

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196.4 193.7 192.9 191.4 -1.5 -0.8

Palm Coast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.0 19.3 18.6 18.5 -0.1 -0.5

Panama City-Lynn Haven-Panama City Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.0 71.9 69.7 71.1 1.4 2.0

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160.8 158.7 158.5 155.1 -3.4 -2.1

Port St. Lucie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.2 121.3 120.4 118.9 -1.5 -1.2

Punta Gorda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.5 42.8 41.6 41.9 0.3 0.7

Sebastian-Vero Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.0 46.2 44.5 46.1 1.6 3.6

Tallahassee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169.7 169.4 169.1 169.1 0.0 0.0

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,130.0 1,154.0 1,112.9 1,132.1 19.2 1.7

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,879.9 3,915.6 3,786.6 3,870.3 83.7 2.2

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.6 59.6 60.2 58.5 -1.7 -2.8

Athens-Clarke County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.4 84.4 80.5 82.6 2.1 2.6

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,299.7 2,334.1 2,238.1 2,306.5 68.4 3.1

Augusta-Richmond County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211.2 208.5 207.3 205.4 -1.9 -0.9

Brunswick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.4 39.3 39.2 39.3 0.1 0.3

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.6 121.0 115.3 119.6 4.3 3.7

Dalton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.3 63.0 64.4 62.3 -2.1 -3.3

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.1 75.9 71.1 75.4 4.3 6.0

Hinesville-Fort Stewart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.7 19.8 19.9 19.7 -0.2 -1.0

Macon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.6 97.0 94.4 95.7 1.3 1.4

Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.3 37.2 37.8 36.7 -1.1 -2.9

Savannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.4 150.5 147.7 149.0 1.3 0.9

Valdosta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.3 52.2 51.6 52.0 0.4 0.8

Warner Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.9 59.3 58.3 58.9 0.6 1.0

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599.2 602.5 583.8 588.6 4.8 0.8

Honolulu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445.4 446.5 431.9 435.1 3.2 0.7

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606.1 611.4 585.9 595.1 9.2 1.6

Boise City-Nampa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254.9 258.5 249.3 251.6 2.3 0.9

Coeur d’Alene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.4 53.4 50.1 52.1 2.0 4.0

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

December January

Change from

January 2011 to January

2012p

2010 2011 2011 2012p Number Percent

Idaho - Continued

Idaho Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.7 49.0 47.4 48.2 0.8 1.7

Lewiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.1 25.9 25.3 25.4 0.1 0.4

Pocatello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.6 36.5 34.7 35.1 0.4 1.2

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,688.3 5,703.0 5,527.2 5,559.3 32.1 0.6

Bloomington-Normal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.0 90.7 88.2 86.7 -1.5 -1.7

Champaign-Urbana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.1 103.3 103.0 100.4 -2.6 -2.5

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,303.5 4,329.3 4,182.7 4,223.2 40.5 1.0

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.2 29.4 28.7 28.7 0.0 0.0

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.6 178.0 176.5 173.9 -2.6 -1.5

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.7 53.2 50.9 51.4 0.5 1.0

Kankakee-Bradley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.2 43.5 41.4 42.6 1.2 2.9

Peoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.7 184.5 176.2 178.9 2.7 1.5

Rockford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.0 147.4 140.9 144.1 3.2 2.3

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.7 112.9 109.2 110.1 0.9 0.8

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,829.8 2,864.4 2,761.9 2,802.8 40.9 1.5

Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.7 40.1 39.2 39.3 0.1 0.3

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.7 80.6 80.9 79.6 -1.3 -1.6

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.5 48.1 42.8 47.5 4.7 11.0

Elkhart-Goshen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.9 107.9 103.0 107.7 4.7 4.6

Evansville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.3 176.1 171.4 172.8 1.4 0.8

Fort Wayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204.8 211.1 199.2 206.5 7.3 3.7

Indianapolis-Carmel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882.6 890.8 861.3 868.2 6.9 0.8

Kokomo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.8 41.6 39.5 40.9 1.4 3.5

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.7 96.2 91.7 93.5 1.8 2.0

Michigan City-La Porte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.4 42.7 41.1 41.2 0.1 0.2

Muncie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.9 50.3 48.2 49.7 1.5 3.1

South Bend-Mishawaka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133.9 136.9 131.0 133.1 2.1 1.6

Terre Haute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.2 70.0 69.2 68.7 -0.5 -0.7

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,487.7 1,489.5 1,443.9 1,453.2 9.3 0.6

Ames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.1 48.9 46.0 47.0 1.0 2.2

Cedar Rapids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.1 136.4 135.5 133.7 -1.8 -1.3

Des Moines-West Des Moines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319.1 319.1 311.8 312.8 1.0 0.3

Dubuque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.0 56.6 55.0 56.1 1.1 2.0

Iowa City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.7 92.0 89.5 88.8 -0.7 -0.8

Sioux City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.7 73.9 71.7 72.0 0.3 0.4

Waterloo-Cedar Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.3 91.8 86.9 87.0 0.1 0.1

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,343.3 1,351.5 1,313.2 1,325.4 12.2 0.9

Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.0 50.0 48.7 49.7 1.0 2.1

Manhattan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.8 54.2 54.4 54.0 -0.4 -0.7

Topeka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109.8 107.5 107.5 105.5 -2.0 -1.9

Wichita. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285.4 282.5 280.5 280.1 -0.4 -0.1

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,803.2 1,818.6 1,749.5 1,783.2 33.7 1.9

Bowling Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.3 60.8 57.9 58.4 0.5 0.9

Elizabethtown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.8 47.2 47.8 46.9 -0.9 -1.9

Lexington-Fayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252.0 250.4 242.4 243.2 0.8 0.3

Louisville-Jefferson County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604.5 609.8 584.0 599.1 15.1 2.6

Owensboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.7 52.2 49.6 50.7 1.1 2.2

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,912.2 1,948.4 1,880.4 1,926.3 45.9 2.4

Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.3 63.4 62.9 61.8 -1.1 -1.7

Baton Rouge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366.6 371.4 362.6 365.3 2.7 0.7

Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.0 95.7 89.3 94.0 4.7 5.3

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149.4 156.5 147.0 157.3 10.3 7.0

Lake Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.6 88.3 87.7 88.1 0.4 0.5

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.7 77.0 75.3 76.2 0.9 1.2

New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527.3 529.3 519.2 527.5 8.3 1.6

Shreveport-Bossier City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178.6 179.0 175.8 177.0 1.2 0.7

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596.2 595.1 572.4 575.4 3.0 0.5

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

December January

Change from

January 2011 to January

2012p

2010 2011 2011 2012p Number Percent

Maine - Continued

Bangor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.0 64.9 62.5 63.0 0.5 0.8

Lewiston-Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.3 49.4 47.3 47.4 0.1 0.2

Portland-South Portland-Biddeford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191.2 188.2 183.1 182.7 -0.4 -0.2

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,551.0 2,584.6 2,474.1 2,511.8 37.7 1.5

Baltimore-Towson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,291.2 1,314.4 1,257.4 1,276.4 19.0 1.5

Cumberland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.3 42.4 38.4 40.8 2.4 6.3

Hagerstown-Martinsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.4 100.5 96.9 97.5 0.6 0.6

Salisbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.0 54.2 50.6 50.8 0.2 0.4

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,233.3 3,224.5 3,135.2 3,141.5 6.3 0.2

Barnstable Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.8 96.0 86.6 90.6 4.0 4.6

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,466.6 2,464.3 2,397.7 2,410.2 12.5 0.5

Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.8 47.5 47.0 46.9 -0.1 -0.2

New Bedford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.1 64.9 62.9 63.9 1.0 1.6

Pittsfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.6 35.1 34.3 34.4 0.1 0.3

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289.4 288.4 280.2 276.9 -3.3 -1.2

Worcester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244.8 245.9 239.0 241.1 2.1 0.9

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,922.4 3,982.0 3,831.6 3,879.8 48.2 1.3

Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.5 204.2 196.3 198.9 2.6 1.3

Battle Creek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.8 56.2 54.8 54.8 0.0 0.0

Bay City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.3 37.0 35.3 36.7 1.4 4.0

Detroit-Warren-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,768.6 1,799.9 1,732.5 1,752.1 19.6 1.1

Flint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135.6 137.7 131.6 134.2 2.6 2.0

Grand Rapids-Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370.6 376.5 361.4 370.5 9.1 2.5

Holland-Grand Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.6 113.8 104.2 111.8 7.6 7.3

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.9 54.9 52.5 54.0 1.5 2.9

Kalamazoo-Portage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.5 133.5 133.0 132.5 -0.5 -0.4

Lansing-East Lansing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219.1 221.0 214.2 216.3 2.1 1.0

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.9 37.5 36.8 36.1 -0.7 -1.9

Muskegon-Norton Shores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.1 60.8 57.7 59.2 1.5 2.6

Niles-Benton Harbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.6 59.6 57.2 57.6 0.4 0.7

Saginaw-Saginaw Township North. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.7 85.3 83.4 83.8 0.4 0.5

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,667.9 2,681.8 2,607.3 2,636.0 28.7 1.1

Duluth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.4 126.9 125.8 124.6 -1.2 -1.0

Mankato-North Mankato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.6 53.3 51.8 53.5 1.7 3.3

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,720.4 1,739.6 1,685.6 1,703.9 18.3 1.1

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.0 100.9 100.1 100.6 0.5 0.5

St. Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.6 99.5 96.6 98.5 1.9 2.0

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,097.2 1,092.7 1,077.2 1,078.1 0.9 0.1

Gulfport-Biloxi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.4 105.9 104.6 105.1 0.5 0.5

Hattiesburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.7 58.8 57.8 58.4 0.6 1.0

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254.6 257.3 249.2 251.8 2.6 1.0

Pascagoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.4 56.6 56.3 55.2 -1.1 -2.0

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,668.2 2,648.0 2,597.5 2,593.1 -4.4 -0.2

Cape Girardeau-Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.9 43.4 42.9 42.8 -0.1 -0.2

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.3 97.3 88.7 94.5 5.8 6.5

Jefferson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.8 77.5 75.0 76.0 1.0 1.3

Joplin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.4 80.2 78.0 78.6 0.6 0.8

Kansas City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982.7 987.8 956.1 969.4 13.3 1.4

St. Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.5 60.9 59.1 59.6 0.5 0.8

St. Louis1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,295.8 1,295.2 1,271.8 1,269.9 -1.9 -0.1

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194.1 196.0 189.5 191.1 1.6 0.8

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425.9 424.0 412.0 413.2 1.2 0.3

Billings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.9 77.2 76.1 74.7 -1.4 -1.8

Great Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.3 34.3 33.9 33.5 -0.4 -1.2

Missoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.2 54.5 52.9 51.8 -1.1 -2.1

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948.7 952.1 923.1 930.8 7.7 0.8

Lincoln. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.8 176.2 168.0 172.0 4.0 2.4

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

December January

Change from

January 2011 to January

2012p

2010 2011 2011 2012p Number Percent

Nebraska - Continued

Omaha-Council Bluffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462.9 465.0 451.1 457.0 5.9 1.3

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,124.0 1,137.1 1,106.2 1,117.0 10.8 1.0

Carson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.8 27.9 27.9 27.1 -0.8 -2.9

Las Vegas-Paradise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805.4 814.9 797.2 803.1 5.9 0.7

Reno-Sparks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192.6 192.3 184.8 185.7 0.9 0.5

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632.9 631.0 613.1 619.7 6.6 1.1

Manchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.7 99.7 96.8 97.1 0.3 0.3

Portsmouth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.6 56.1 52.5 55.2 2.7 5.1

Rochester-Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.0 57.2 53.2 53.8 0.6 1.1

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,882.8 3,910.9 3,756.3 3,811.8 55.5 1.5

Atlantic City-Hammonton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.9 136.6 129.4 132.8 3.4 2.6

Ocean City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.5 36.7 31.7 35.8 4.1 12.9

Trenton-Ewing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241.2 245.4 235.8 241.2 5.4 2.3

Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.2 59.6 56.4 58.6 2.2 3.9

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807.1 808.0 787.9 793.8 5.9 0.7

Albuquerque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374.3 373.3 365.6 366.0 0.4 0.1

Farmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.6 48.7 47.2 48.3 1.1 2.3

Las Cruces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.5 70.7 68.0 67.9 -0.1 -0.1

Santa Fe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 61.3 59.0 60.4 1.4 2.4

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,719.9 8,809.2 8,453.2 8,571.3 118.1 1.4

Albany-Schenectady-Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439.7 441.6 424.0 429.9 5.9 1.4

Binghamton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109.6 110.5 106.8 107.4 0.6 0.6

Buffalo-Niagara Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548.4 546.5 530.3 531.5 1.2 0.2

Elmira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.1 39.3 39.6 38.1 -1.5 -3.8

Glens Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.0 55.7 51.8 54.6 2.8 5.4

Ithaca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.9 64.1 62.8 59.3 -3.5 -5.6

Kingston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.0 63.0 58.9 60.2 1.3 2.2

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,461.7 8,535.3 8,202.9 8,324.2 121.3 1.5

Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253.4 255.6 243.2 248.0 4.8 2.0

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511.3 520.6 495.2 504.0 8.8 1.8

Syracuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316.9 317.5 306.8 306.2 -0.6 -0.2

Utica-Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.8 134.3 126.3 130.1 3.8 3.0

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,930.2 3,955.7 3,835.6 3,883.1 47.5 1.2

Asheville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169.4 172.7 164.0 170.2 6.2 3.8

Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.8 58.4 56.2 57.0 0.8 1.4

Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825.5 833.2 807.2 820.4 13.2 1.6

Durham-Chapel Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.3 278.0 268.8 273.8 5.0 1.9

Fayetteville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130.0 132.8 127.3 130.3 3.0 2.4

Goldsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.4 43.3 42.3 42.8 0.5 1.2

Greensboro-High Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343.0 347.2 335.8 341.2 5.4 1.6

Greenville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.2 76.4 74.1 74.4 0.3 0.4

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.8 143.2 141.4 141.4 0.0 0.0

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.5 47.8 47.1 47.5 0.4 0.8

Raleigh-Cary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506.3 516.6 497.0 508.8 11.8 2.4

Rocky Mount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.8 60.1 59.3 58.8 -0.5 -0.8

Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135.1 134.8 132.0 131.9 -0.1 -0.1

Winston-Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205.8 208.2 200.1 203.9 3.8 1.9

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387.6 410.4 377.7 401.6 23.9 6.3

Bismarck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.3 66.4 61.9 64.8 2.9 4.7

Fargo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.0 128.2 120.4 125.5 5.1 4.2

Grand Forks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.5 54.7 53.2 52.9 -0.3 -0.6

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,104.0 5,126.7 4,956.1 5,020.2 64.1 1.3

Akron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322.7 320.2 311.8 311.2 -0.6 -0.2

Canton-Massillon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162.7 165.6 157.8 162.7 4.9 3.1

Cincinnati-Middletown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987.8 999.0 962.1 982.4 20.3 2.1

Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,001.4 989.7 971.4 968.1 -3.3 -0.3

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919.0 929.9 897.7 912.4 14.7 1.6

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

December January

Change from

January 2011 to January

2012p

2010 2011 2011 2012p Number Percent

Ohio - Continued

Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376.2 379.3 367.3 374.6 7.3 2.0

Lima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.2 53.2 51.0 51.6 0.6 1.2

Mansfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.9 52.6 51.5 51.7 0.2 0.4

Sandusky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.6 35.0 33.5 34.9 1.4 4.2

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.5 50.2 48.8 49.2 0.4 0.8

Steubenville-Weirton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.3 43.2 42.0 42.1 0.1 0.2

Toledo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302.9 303.8 291.7 296.4 4.7 1.6

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224.7 223.8 216.8 221.7 4.9 2.3

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,554.2 1,577.0 1,516.1 1,550.0 33.9 2.2

Lawton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.0 42.1 43.6 42.0 -1.6 -3.7

Oklahoma City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572.1 579.0 556.0 567.3 11.3 2.0

Tulsa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411.8 415.2 400.3 408.3 8.0 2.0

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,621.2 1,627.6 1,583.6 1,594.6 11.0 0.7

Bend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.8 60.0 58.9 59.6 0.7 1.2

Corvallis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.3 38.3 37.9 37.6 -0.3 -0.8

Eugene-Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.4 139.4 139.0 137.2 -1.8 -1.3

Medford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.4 75.7 73.0 72.6 -0.4 -0.5

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 986.6 998.1 966.8 981.3 14.5 1.5

Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.2 141.7 138.9 139.0 0.1 0.1

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,714.0 5,746.0 5,557.1 5,604.2 47.1 0.8

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341.3 342.5 328.9 336.7 7.8 2.4

Altoona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.1 62.1 59.5 60.3 0.8 1.3

Erie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.5 132.6 126.2 127.7 1.5 1.2

Harrisburg-Carlisle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323.7 323.7 315.3 319.2 3.9 1.2

Johnstown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.6 60.2 59.1 58.8 -0.3 -0.5

Lancaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229.8 228.5 220.9 223.4 2.5 1.1

Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.0 49.9 48.9 48.7 -0.2 -0.4

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,738.7 2,733.0 2,662.6 2,668.7 6.1 0.2

Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,143.3 1,169.7 1,116.1 1,134.0 17.9 1.6

Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169.4 172.4 165.2 169.0 3.8 2.3

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256.9 258.6 248.5 252.6 4.1 1.6

State College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.2 76.9 71.9 73.7 1.8 2.5

Williamsport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.1 55.5 52.9 54.9 2.0 3.8

York-Hanover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177.6 179.1 172.8 174.8 2.0 1.2

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463.5 459.4 445.5 443.8 -1.7 -0.4

Providence-Fall River-Warwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548.5 543.1 528.0 527.0 -1.0 -0.2

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,825.3 1,842.8 1,779.6 1,809.5 29.9 1.7

Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.6 58.5 58.0 57.6 -0.4 -0.7

Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291.6 297.8 287.2 294.0 6.8 2.4

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347.0 349.7 338.5 345.9 7.4 2.2

Florence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.6 82.6 79.3 82.5 3.2 4.0

Greenville-Mauldin-Easley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302.0 307.4 293.9 300.5 6.6 2.2

Myrtle Beach-North Myrtle Beach-Conway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.3 109.8 100.9 106.3 5.4 5.4

Spartanburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.0 118.2 113.2 116.9 3.7 3.3

Sumter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.1 37.2 36.8 36.4 -0.4 -1.1

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405.0 406.7 393.0 395.0 2.0 0.5

Rapid City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.0 61.1 58.4 59.2 0.8 1.4

Sioux Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135.3 136.6 132.2 133.7 1.5 1.1

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,655.2 2,697.8 2,587.1 2,639.8 52.7 2.0

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233.2 235.1 225.1 230.1 5.0 2.2

Clarksville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.0 84.6 81.4 83.2 1.8 2.2

Cleveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.2 38.6 37.9 37.7 -0.2 -0.5

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.2 58.8 57.9 57.6 -0.3 -0.5

Johnson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.2 80.8 77.1 78.4 1.3 1.7

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.3 118.9 115.7 116.0 0.3 0.3

Knoxville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326.4 335.9 320.6 330.9 10.3 3.2

Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595.3 612.8 582.5 594.0 11.5 2.0

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

December January

Change from

January 2011 to January

2012p

2010 2011 2011 2012p Number Percent

Tennessee - Continued

Morristown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.8 43.9 43.6 42.7 -0.9 -2.1

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753.0 761.5 731.9 747.8 15.9 2.2

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,517.9 10,707.3 10,325.6 10,587.7 262.1 2.5

Abilene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.8 65.1 64.8 64.4 -0.4 -0.6

Amarillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.9 113.9 110.0 111.8 1.8 1.6

Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784.7 799.3 772.7 799.5 26.8 3.5

Beaumont-Port Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159.3 157.5 156.3 157.6 1.3 0.8

Brownsville-Harlingen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.4 130.0 126.3 128.8 2.5 2.0

College Station-Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.4 96.9 94.8 92.8 -2.0 -2.1

Corpus Christi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178.1 184.9 174.6 182.8 8.2 4.7

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,910.1 2,961.3 2,857.8 2,927.5 69.7 2.4

El Paso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.1 284.3 278.1 282.2 4.1 1.5

Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,569.7 2,646.5 2,527.8 2,622.5 94.7 3.7

Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.9 129.7 127.5 127.6 0.1 0.1

Laredo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.7 95.2 89.5 94.6 5.1 5.7

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.0 98.7 95.4 97.7 2.3 2.4

Lubbock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.6 132.0 126.8 129.4 2.6 2.1

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225.3 232.9 222.7 231.3 8.6 3.9

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.2 76.0 70.9 74.4 3.5 4.9

Odessa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.7 68.9 62.4 68.1 5.7 9.1

San Angelo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.3 46.7 44.1 46.5 2.4 5.4

San Antonio-New Braunfels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852.4 856.6 838.1 848.8 10.7 1.3

Sherman-Denison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.9 44.0 41.8 43.0 1.2 2.9

Texarkana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.7 58.5 56.3 57.6 1.3 2.3

Tyler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.4 96.8 92.0 94.7 2.7 2.9

Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.7 50.9 49.4 49.3 -0.1 -0.2

Waco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.6 105.4 103.6 102.5 -1.1 -1.1

Wichita Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.9 58.0 57.7 57.1 -0.6 -1.0

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,204.7 1,234.6 1,177.1 1,207.4 30.3 2.6

Logan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.7 55.0 53.1 53.4 0.3 0.6

Ogden-Clearfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194.2 194.7 189.9 192.2 2.3 1.2

Provo-Orem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181.9 187.3 178.0 183.3 5.3 3.0

St. George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.5 46.9 44.4 45.0 0.6 1.4

Salt Lake City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622.5 644.7 610.8 631.6 20.8 3.4

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305.0 308.1 296.5 300.2 3.7 1.2

Burlington-South Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.2 115.6 110.7 111.7 1.0 0.9

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,683.7 3,715.4 3,603.0 3,650.9 47.9 1.3

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.9 75.5 65.9 71.1 5.2 7.9

Charlottesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.3 103.1 96.4 101.2 4.8 5.0

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.0 40.1 39.1 39.6 0.5 1.3

Harrisonburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.0 64.0 62.3 62.7 0.4 0.6

Lynchburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.7 102.0 100.9 101.0 0.1 0.1

Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606.8 616.2 597.2 609.4 12.2 2.0

Roanoke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156.2 155.5 152.9 153.1 0.2 0.1

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736.5 738.2 718.3 724.0 5.7 0.8

Winchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.4 56.5 54.2 56.0 1.8 3.3

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,808.5 2,839.0 2,756.4 2,797.4 41.0 1.5

Bellingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.7 80.2 78.5 79.2 0.7 0.9

Bremerton-Silverdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.1 82.1 81.5 80.8 -0.7 -0.9

Kennewick-Pasco-Richland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.9 99.1 99.4 97.5 -1.9 -1.9

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.5 34.9 34.8 34.9 0.1 0.3

Mount Vernon-Anacortes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.8 43.7 42.7 42.7 0.0 0.0

Olympia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.3 99.5 97.1 97.5 0.4 0.4

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,661.4 1,688.4 1,630.1 1,665.5 35.4 2.2

Spokane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205.8 203.6 201.0 198.5 -2.5 -1.2

Wenatchee-East Wenatchee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.7 38.8 37.0 37.4 0.4 1.1

Yakima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.7 75.8 74.1 74.5 0.4 0.5

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754.4 764.8 729.5 748.7 19.2 2.6

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

December January

Change from

January 2011 to January

2012p

2010 2011 2011 2012p Number Percent

West Virginia - Continued

Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147.6 149.2 144.1 146.1 2.0 1.4

Huntington-Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.3 115.2 110.9 113.2 2.3 2.1

Morgantown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.3 67.3 62.7 64.6 1.9 3.0

Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.1 69.7 67.6 67.5 -0.1 -0.1

Wheeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.6 67.5 64.7 65.5 0.8 1.2

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,758.1 2,724.2 2,681.6 2,662.2 -19.4 -0.7

Appleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.9 117.0 114.5 115.4 0.9 0.8

Eau Claire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.5 79.8 77.5 77.6 0.1 0.1

Fond du Lac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.2 45.6 43.7 45.1 1.4 3.2

Green Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166.5 167.3 162.4 164.5 2.1 1.3

Janesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.7 60.5 59.7 59.0 -0.7 -1.2

La Crosse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.8 74.6 71.7 72.2 0.5 0.7

Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349.5 347.0 340.4 339.0 -1.4 -0.4

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815.5 811.7 797.3 796.0 -1.3 -0.2

Oshkosh-Neenah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.7 95.3 92.4 92.5 0.1 0.1

Racine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.2 75.6 74.2 73.7 -0.5 -0.7

Sheboygan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.0 57.2 56.0 56.6 0.6 1.1

Wausau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.6 67.0 66.1 65.7 -0.4 -0.6

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.7 284.6 273.9 277.2 3.3 1.2

Casper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.2 41.1 38.1 40.4 2.3 6.0

Cheyenne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.7 44.9 42.6 44.3 1.7 4.0

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951.5 938.3 913.3 916.8 3.5 0.4

Aguadilla-Isabela-San Sebastian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.8 48.4 48.2 47.1 -1.1 -2.3

Fajardo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.8 15.2 15.4 14.7 -0.7 -4.5

Guayama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.5 17.1 16.6 16.3 -0.3 -1.8

Mayaguez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.5 36.4 35.7 35.8 0.1 0.3

Ponce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.1 61.8 60.8 60.5 -0.3 -0.5

San German-Cabo Rojo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.6 21.6 20.7 20.2 -0.5 -2.4

San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706.1 695.5 676.0 677.4 1.4 0.2

Yauco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.0 13.9 13.4 13.6 0.2 1.5

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.9 43.8 44.0 43.5 -0.5 -1.1

1 Area boundaries do not reflect official OMB definitions.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Data have been revised to reflect 2011 benchmark levels. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmark are provisional and

will be revised when new information becomes available. Area definitions are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 10-02, dated December 1, 2009, 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 that appears first in their titles. Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, Iowa-Ill. is the

exception since it is listed under Illinois for operational reasons.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 4. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state, selected metropolitan area, and metropolitan division

[In thousands]

State, area, and division

December January Change from

January 2011 to January 2012p

2010 2011 2011 2012p Number Percent

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,155.6 14,277.8 13,861.9 14,019.5 157.6 1.1

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,211.0 5,245.6 5,109.8 5,131.0 21.2 0.4

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,834.4 3,853.4 3,758.7 3,768.5 9.8 0.3

Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,376.6 1,392.2 1,351.1 1,362.5 11.4 0.8

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,902.0 1,923.6 1,869.1 1,895.7 26.6 1.4

Oakland-Fremont-Hayward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957.3 956.4 937.8 945.6 7.8 0.8

San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944.7 967.2 931.3 950.1 18.8 2.0

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716.8 735.8 713.3 724.3 11.0 1.5

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,003.2 3,030.3 2,944.4 2,973.1 28.7 1.0

Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567.6 563.7 556.0 553.9 -2.1 -0.4

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,435.6 2,466.6 2,388.4 2,419.2 30.8 1.3

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,309.3 7,392.2 7,196.1 7,271.0 74.9 1.0

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,237.0 2,260.4 2,201.7 2,228.1 26.4 1.2

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719.1 719.6 706.4 710.6 4.2 0.6

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,006.7 1,027.4 991.8 1,011.5 19.7 2.0

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511.2 513.4 503.5 506.0 2.5 0.5

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,688.3 5,703.0 5,527.2 5,559.3 32.1 0.6

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,303.5 4,329.3 4,182.7 4,223.2 40.5 1.0

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,657.8 3,682.6 3,557.1 3,592.8 35.7 1.0

Gary2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266.2 272.2 259.4 262.3 2.9 1.1

Lake County-Kenosha County1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379.5 374.5 366.2 368.1 1.9 0.5

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,233.3 3,224.5 3,135.2 3,141.5 6.3 0.2

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,466.6 2,464.3 2,397.7 2,410.2 12.5 0.5

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,698.6 1,698.7 1,653.3 1,664.8 11.5 0.7

Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.0 87.9 85.2 85.4 0.2 0.2

Framingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157.8 158.8 152.7 156.3 3.6 2.4

Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.1 78.7 75.9 76.7 0.8 1.1

Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.2 118.0 113.4 116.3 2.9 2.6

Nashua1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127.4 124.6 124.0 123.0 -1.0 -0.8

Peabody. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.6 102.5 98.1 99.3 1.2 1.2

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,922.4 3,982.0 3,831.6 3,879.8 48.2 1.3

Detroit-Warren-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,768.6 1,799.9 1,732.5 1,752.1 19.6 1.1

Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703.8 704.7 689.7 685.1 -4.6 -0.7

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,064.8 1,095.2 1,042.8 1,067.0 24.2 2.3

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,719.9 8,809.2 8,453.2 8,571.3 118.1 1.4

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,461.7 8,535.3 8,202.9 8,324.2 121.3 1.5

Edison-New Brunswick2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989.1 988.9 955.0 958.4 3.4 0.4

Nassau-Suffolk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,253.8 1,260.3 1,200.7 1,218.3 17.6 1.5

New York-White Plains-Wayne1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,241.5 5,305.5 5,100.3 5,187.7 87.4 1.7

Newark-Union2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977.3 980.6 946.9 959.8 12.9 1.4

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,714.0 5,746.0 5,557.1 5,604.2 47.1 0.8

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,738.7 2,733.0 2,662.6 2,668.7 6.1 0.2

Camden2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509.0 506.5 494.5 494.1 -0.4 -0.1

Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,893.9 1,891.8 1,842.9 1,847.8 4.9 0.3

Wilmington2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335.8 334.7 325.2 326.8 1.6 0.5

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,517.9 10,707.3 10,325.6 10,587.7 262.1 2.5

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,910.1 2,961.3 2,857.8 2,927.5 69.7 2.4

Dallas-Plano-Irving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,054.2 2,085.2 2,015.8 2,061.1 45.3 2.2

Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855.9 876.1 842.0 866.4 24.4 2.9

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,808.5 2,839.0 2,756.4 2,797.4 41.0 1.5

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,661.4 1,688.4 1,630.1 1,665.5 35.4 2.2

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,395.3 1,422.0 1,369.6 1,403.1 33.5 2.4

Tacoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266.1 266.4 260.5 262.4 1.9 0.7

1 Part of the area is in one or more adjacent states.

2 All of the area is in one or more adjacent states.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Data have been revised to reflect 2011 benchmark levels. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmark are provisional and will be revised when new

information becomes available. Area definitions are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 10-02, dated December 1, 2009, 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 that appears first in their titles. 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.
Unemployment rates for metropolitan are

not seasonally adjusted, January 2012

(U S rate = 8 8 percent) (U.S. rate

=

8.8 percent)

Map includes data for 372 metropolitan areaon Office of Management and Budget Bullet02. Areas in the six New England states are politan New England City and Town areas (Nwhile areas in other states are county-based

NOTE: