For release 10:00 a.m. (EST) Wednesday, February 3, 2016 USDL-16-0208 

Technical information: 

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METROPOLITAN AREA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT — DECEMBER 2015

Unemployment rates were lower in December than a year earlier in 296 of the 387 metropolitan areas, 

higher in 79 areas, and unchanged in 12 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. 

Twenty-five areas had jobless rates of less than 3.0 percent, and 12 areas had rates of at least 10.0 

percent. Nonfarm payroll employment increased over the year in 280 metropolitan areas, decreased in 

94 areas, and was unchanged in 13 areas. The national unemployment rate in December was 4.8 percent, 

not seasonally adjusted, down from 5.4 percent a year earlier. 

Metropolitan Area Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

Ames, Iowa, had the lowest unemployment rate in December, 2.2 percent. El Centro, Calif., and Yuma, 

Ariz., had the highest unemployment rates, 19.6 percent and 18.0 percent, respectively. A total of 188 

areas had December jobless rates below the U.S. rate of 4.8 percent, 187 areas had rates above it, and 12 

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

Atlantic City-Hammonton, N.J., had the largest over-the-year unemployment rate decrease in December 

(-3.4 percentage points), followed by El Centro, Calif. (-3.0 points). Three other areas had rate declines 

of at least 2.0 percentage points. The largest over-the-year rate increase occurred in Farmington, N.M. 

(+2.1 percentage points). 

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

had the lowest unemployment rate in December, 2.8 percent. Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, Nev., and 

Memphis, Tenn.-Miss.-Ark., had the highest rates among the large areas, 6.2 percent and 6.1 percent, 

respectively. Forty-three large areas had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases, four had increases, 

and four had no change. New Orleans-Metairie, La., had the largest rate decrease (-1.7 percentage 

points). The largest over-the-year rate increase occurred in Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas 

(+0.6 percentage point). 

Metropolitan Division Unemployment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

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

essentially separately identifiable employment centers. In December, Montgomery County-Bucks 

County-Chester County, Pa., had the lowest unemployment rate among the divisions, 3.1 percent. 

Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, Mich., had the highest division rate, 6.4 percent. (See table 2.) 
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In December, 34 of the metropolitan divisions had over-the-year unemployment rate decreases, 3 had 

increases, and 1 had no change. The largest declines occurred in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, 

Calif. (-1.7 percentage points), and Camden, N.J. (-1.6 points). The largest over-the-year rate increase 

occurred in Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Wash. (+0.4 percentage point). 

Metropolitan Area Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In December, 280 metropolitan areas had over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment, 94 

had decreases, and 13 had no change. The largest over-the-year employment increases occurred in New 

York-Newark-Jersey City, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa. (+156,400), Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, Calif. 

(+135,100), and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+98,900). The largest over-the-year percentage 

gain in employment occurred in Idaho Falls, Idaho (+4.5 percent), followed by Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, 

Salisbury, Md.-Del., and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. (+4.4 percent each). (See table 3.) 

The largest over-the-year decreases in employment occurred in Lafayette, La. (-5,500), DavenportMoline-Rock Island, Iowa-Ill. (-4,500), and Houma-Thibodaux, La. (-3,600). The largest over-the-year 

percentage decreases in employment occurred in Pine Bluff, Ark. (-7.0 percent), Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.-Ill. (-3.8 percent), and Williamsport, Pa. (-3.7 percent). 

Over the year, nonfarm employment rose in 50 of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census 

population of 1 million or more and decreased in New Orleans-Metairie, La. (-0.2 percent). The largest 

over-the-year percentage increase in employment in these large metropolitan areas occurred in San JoseSunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. (+4.4 percent), followed by Austin-Round Rock, Texas, and PortlandVancouver-Hillsboro, Ore.-Wash. (+3.8 percent each). 

Metropolitan Division Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted) 

In December, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 34 of the 38 metropolitan divisions over the 

year and decreased in 4. The largest over-the-year increase in employment among the metropolitan 

divisions occurred in New York-Jersey City-White Plains, N.Y.-N.J. (+122,700), followed by Los 

Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, Calif. (+93,700), and Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas (+84,400). The overthe-year decreases in employment occurred in Lake County-Kenosha County, Ill.-Wis. (-5,100), 

Dutchess County-Putnam County, N.Y. (-3,300), Nashua, N.H.-Mass. (-1,500), and TauntonMiddleborough-Norton, Mass. (-900). (See table 4.) 

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

in San Rafael, Calif. (+5.6 percent), followed by San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, 

Calif. (+3.7 percent), and Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas, and Tacoma-Lakewood, Wash. (+3.6 percent 

each). The over-the-year percentage decreases in employment occurred in Dutchess County-Putnam 

County, N.Y. (-2.3 percent), Taunton-Middleborough-Norton, Mass. (-1.5 percent), Lake CountyKenosha County, Ill.-Wis. (-1.3 percent), and Nashua, N.H.-Mass. (-1.2 percent). 

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The Regional and State Unemployment 2015 Annual Averages news release is scheduled to be 

released on Friday, February 26, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. (EST). The Regional and State Employment 

and Unemployment news release for January 2016 is scheduled to be released on Monday, March 
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14, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. (EDT). The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment news 

release for January 2016 is scheduled to be released on Friday, March 18, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. 

(EDT). 

Upcoming Changes to Local Area Unemployment Statistics Data 

Effective with the release of Regional and State Unemployment 2015 Annual Averages on 

February 26, 2016, the civilian labor force and unemployment data for census regions and 

divisions and all states, the District of Columbia, and the seven modeled substate areas 

presented in tables 1 and 2 of this news release will be revised from 2011 to 2015 to 

incorporate updated inputs, new population controls, and reestimation of models. The new 

population controls will reflect the annual updating of population estimates by the U.S. Census 

Bureau. Civilian labor force and unemployment estimates for all other metropolitan areas and 

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

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

March 2016 Regional and State Employment and Unemployment news release on April 15, 

2016. 

Upcoming Changes to Current Employment Statistics Data 

 Effective with the release of January 2016 estimates on March 14, 2016, all nonfarm payroll 

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

be adjusted to 2015 benchmark levels. Not seasonally adjusted data beginning with April 2014 

and seasonally adjusted data beginning with January 2011 are subject to revision. Some 

seasonally adjusted series may be revised back to 1990. 

 
Technical Note

This release presents labor force and unemployment data 

from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) 

program (tables 1 and 2) for 387 metropolitan statistical areas 

and metropolitan New England City and Town Areas 

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

metropolitan and NECTA divisions also are presented. 

Nonfarm payroll employment estimates from the Current 

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

provided for the same areas. State estimates were previously 

published in the news release, Regional and State Employment 

and Unemployment, and are republished in this release for ease 

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

Labor force and unemployment—from the LAUS 

program 

Definitions. The labor force and unemployment data are 

based on the same concepts and definitions as those used for 

the official national estimates obtained from the Current 

Population Survey (CPS), a sample survey of households that 

is conducted for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) by the 

U.S. Census Bureau. The LAUS program measures 

employment and unemployment on a place-of-residence basis. 

The universe for each is the civilian noninstitutional population 

16 years of age and older. Employed persons are those who did 

any work at all for pay or profit in the reference week (the week 

including the 12th of the month) or worked 15 hours or more 

without pay in a family business or farm, plus those not 

working who had a job from which they were temporarily 

absent, whether or not paid, for such reasons as labormanagement dispute, illness, or vacation. Unemployed persons 

are those who were not employed during the reference week 

(based on the definition above), had actively looked for a job 

sometime in the 4-week period ending with the reference week, 

and were currently available for work; persons on layoff 

expecting recall need not be looking for work to be counted as 

unemployed. The labor force is the sum of employed and 

unemployed persons. The unemployment rate is the number of 

unemployed as a percent of the labor force. 

Method of estimation. Estimates for states, the District 

of Columbia, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale 

metropolitan division, and New York City are produced using 

time-series models with real-time benchmarking to national 

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

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

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

improves the statistical basis of the estimation for these areas 

and provides important tools for analysis, such as measures of 

errors and seasonally adjusted series. For all other substate 

areas in this release, estimates are prepared through indirect 

estimation procedures using a building-block approach. 

Employment estimates, which are based largely on “place of 

work” estimates from the CES program, are adjusted to refer to 

place of residence as used in the CPS. Unemployment estimates 

are aggregates of persons previously employed in industries 

covered by state unemployment insurance (UI) laws and 

entrants to the labor force data from the CPS. The substate 

estimates of employment and unemployment, which 

geographically exhaust the entire state, are adjusted 

proportionally to ensure that they add to the independently 

estimated state or balance-of-state totals. A detailed description 

of the estimation procedures is available from BLS upon 

request.

Annual revisions. Labor force and unemployment data 

shown for the prior year reflect adjustments made at the 

beginning of each year, usually implemented with the issuance 

of January estimates. The adjusted model-based estimates 

typically reflect updated population data from the U.S. Census 

Bureau, any revisions in other input data sources, and model reestimation. All substate estimates then are re-estimated using 

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

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

was implemented, resulting in the replacement of data back to 

the series beginnings. At the same time, enhancements were 

made to the substate estimation methodology, and more timely 

inputs from the American Community Survey were 

incorporated.

Employment—from the CES program 

Definitions. Employment data refer to persons on 

establishment payrolls who receive pay for any part of the pay 

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

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

those appearing on more than one payroll are counted on each 

payroll. Industries are classified on the basis of their principal 

activity in accordance with the 2012 version of the North 

American Industry Classification System. 

Method of estimation. CES State and Area employment 

data are produced using several estimation procedures. Where 

possible these data are produced using a "weighted link 

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

weighted employment to that of the previous-month weighted 

employment is computed from a sample of establishments 

reporting for both months. The estimates of employment for the 

current month are then obtained by multiplying these ratios by 

the previous month’s employment estimates. The weighted link 

relative technique is utilized for data series where the sample 

size meets certain statistical criteria.

For some employment series, the sample of 

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

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

with forecasts of historical (benchmarked) data to decrease 

volatility in estimation. Two different models (Fay-Herriot 

Model and Small Domain Model) are used depending on the 

industry level being estimated. For more detailed information 

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

Annual revisions. Employment estimates are adjusted 

annually to a complete count of jobs, called benchmarks, 

derived principally from tax reports that are submitted by 

employers who are covered under state unemployment 

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

adjust the monthly estimates between the new benchmark and 

the preceding one and also to establish the level of employment 

for the new benchmark month. Thus, the benchmarking process 

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

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

subsequent months. 

Seasonal adjustment. Payroll employment data are 

seasonally adjusted for states, metropolitan areas, and 

metropolitan divisions at the total nonfarm level. For states, 

data are seasonally adjusted at the supersector level as well

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

once a year, coincident with annual benchmark adjustments.

Reliability of the estimates

The estimates presented in this release are based on 

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

are subject to sampling and other types of errors. Sampling 

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

that occurs by chance because a sample rather than the entire 

population is surveyed. Survey data also are subject to 

nonsampling errors, such as those which can be introduced into 

the data collection and processing operations. Estimates not 

directly derived from sample surveys are subject to additional 

errors resulting from the specific estimation processes used. 

The sums of individual items may not always equal the totals 

shown in the same tables because of rounding. Unemployment 

rates are computed from unrounded data and thus may differ 

slightly from rates computed using the rounded data displayed 

in the tables. 

Labor force and unemployment estimates. Measures of 

sampling error are not available for metropolitan areas or

metropolitan divisions. Model-based error measures for states 

are available on the BLS website at 

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

are not available for the areas contained in this release. 

Information on recent data revisions for states and local areas 

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

Employment estimates. Measures of sampling error are 

available for metropolitan areas or metropolitan divisions upon 

request. Measures of sampling error for states down to the 

supersector level are available on the BLS website at 

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

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

Information on recent benchmark revisions is available online

at www.bls.gov/sae/. 

Area definitions

The substate area data published in this release reflect the 

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

Budget on February 28, 2013. Data reflect New England City 

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

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

geographic definitions is available online at 

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

Additional information

Estimates of unadjusted and seasonally adjusted labor 

force and unemployment data for states, census regions and 

divisions, and seven substate areas are available in the news 

release Regional and State Employment and Unemployment. 

Estimates of labor force and unemployment for all states, 

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

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

federal economic assistance programs are available on the 

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

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

Information in this release will be made available to 

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

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

 
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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

November December November December November December

2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p

Alabama ............................................................... 2,139.1 2,149.4 2,122.7 2,144.0 122.8 121.3 117.5 125.4 5.7 5.6 5.5 5.8

Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville ........................... 46.4 46.2 46.1 46.1 3.1 3.0 2.9 3.0 6.7 6.6 6.3 6.5

Auburn-Opelika ................................................. 71.5 72.4 71.0 72.0 3.2 3.4 3.1 3.5 4.5 4.7 4.3 4.9

Birmingham-Hoover .......................................... 533.7 537.5 530.6 535.3 27.1 27.7 25.7 28.4 5.1 5.2 4.8 5.3

Daphne-Fairhope-Foley .................................... 84.3 85.8 83.6 85.3 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.7 5.2 5.2 5.3 5.5

Decatur ............................................................. 69.0 69.0 68.5 68.9 4.0 3.9 3.9 4.1 5.9 5.7 5.6 5.9

Dothan .............................................................. 62.2 62.4 62.0 62.2 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.6 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.7

Florence-Muscle Shoals ................................... 67.4 65.6 67.3 65.5 4.5 4.3 4.7 4.5 6.7 6.6 6.9 6.8

Gadsden ........................................................... 43.6 43.3 43.1 43.2 2.5 2.5 2.3 2.5 5.7 5.8 5.4 5.8

Huntsville .......................................................... 209.4 208.9 206.5 208.3 10.8 10.4 10.3 10.6 5.1 5.0 5.0 5.1

Mobile ............................................................... 182.2 182.0 180.5 181.5 12.2 11.9 11.6 12.4 6.7 6.6 6.4 6.8

Montgomery ...................................................... 169.6 169.3 168.9 169.1 9.6 9.3 9.1 9.4 5.7 5.5 5.4 5.6

Tuscaloosa ....................................................... 111.7 113.9 110.7 113.6 5.7 5.9 5.5 6.3 5.1 5.2 4.9 5.5

Alaska .................................................................. 363.2 358.7 362.5 358.0 23.4 22.9 23.3 23.8 6.4 6.4 6.4 6.6

Anchorage ........................................................ 206.0 204.9 206.9 206.5 11.1 11.2 10.9 11.6 5.4 5.5 5.3 5.6

Fairbanks .......................................................... 47.5 47.0 47.4 46.5 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 5.6 5.5 5.5 5.6

Arizona ................................................................ 3,130.0 3,168.3 3,124.4 3,156.8 199.9 182.8 197.1 173.0 6.4 5.8 6.3 5.5

Flagstaff ............................................................ 72.6 72.4 71.2 71.2 4.8 4.6 5.1 4.7 6.7 6.3 7.2 6.6

Lake Havasu City-Kingman .............................. 77.8 76.7 78.2 76.4 6.4 6.0 6.5 5.8 8.2 7.8 8.4 7.6

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale ................................. 2,144.1 2,180.5 2,140.7 2,175.1 119.6 108.5 117.3 102.9 5.6 5.0 5.5 4.7

Prescott ............................................................ 97.2 97.7 96.2 96.6 5.7 5.1 5.7 4.8 5.8 5.2 5.9 5.0

Sierra Vista-Douglas ......................................... 51.6 49.9 51.0 49.8 4.0 3.5 4.0 3.3 7.7 7.0 7.8 6.6

Tucson .............................................................. 464.3 472.6 465.6 470.7 27.4 25.0 26.7 23.7 5.9 5.3 5.7 5.0

Yuma ................................................................ 92.4 90.4 91.8 89.0 18.7 18.1 18.4 16.0 20.3 20.1 20.1 18.0

Arkansas ............................................................. 1,310.7 1,331.1 1,304.1 1,332.4 69.9 59.0 72.2 61.4 5.3 4.4 5.5 4.6

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers ........................ 242.8 249.9 241.4 250.3 9.5 7.8 9.6 8.0 3.9 3.1 4.0 3.2

Fort Smith ......................................................... 119.9 120.5 118.3 120.2 6.6 6.1 6.5 6.1 5.5 5.1 5.5 5.1

Hot Springs ....................................................... 39.8 40.6 39.6 40.8 2.3 2.0 2.4 2.0 5.9 4.9 6.0 4.9

Jonesboro ......................................................... 60.7 62.9 60.4 62.8 2.9 2.5 3.1 2.5 4.9 3.9 5.1 4.0

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway ............... 339.2 349.3 338.4 347.8 16.4 13.6 16.6 14.0 4.8 3.9 4.9 4.0

Pine Bluff .......................................................... 36.9 34.8 36.6 34.8 2.6 2.2 2.7 2.3 7.1 6.4 7.4 6.7

California ............................................................. 18,941.1 18,987.7 18,855.7 18,934.5 1,341.2 1,074.2 1,277.5 1,091.6 7.1 5.7 6.8 5.8

Bakersfield ................................................. 398.3 396.9 393.8 395.2 37.2 36.5 39.2 40.4 9.4 9.2 10.0 10.2

Chico ................................................................ 101.8 102.6 101.2 101.9 8.0 6.8 7.9 7.1 7.9 6.6 7.8 7.0

El Centro ........................................................... 80.6 81.6 82.3 80.0 18.3 17.9 18.6 15.7 22.7 21.9 22.6 19.6

Fresno .............................................................. 436.7 436.4 437.2 436.5 49.3 43.0 49.1 45.1 11.3 9.9 11.2 10.3

Hanford-Corcoran ............................................. 57.1 56.6 56.9 56.5 6.5 5.8 6.7 6.2 11.4 10.3 11.7 10.9

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim .................. 6,662.5 6,596.7 6,632.0 6,579.6 482.6 352.9 453.6 355.4 7.2 5.3 6.8 5.4

Madera ............................................................. 61.2 60.7 62.8 62.2 7.0 6.0 7.2 6.3 11.4 9.9 11.4 10.1

Merced .............................................................. 116.5 114.6 116.4 113.5 13.9 12.5 14.8 13.5 11.9 10.9 12.8 11.9

Modesto ............................................................ 239.6 241.3 239.5 241.0 25.3 21.2 24.9 22.0 10.6 8.8 10.4 9.1

Napa ................................................................. 73.7 73.8 71.7 72.1 4.2 3.6 4.0 3.7 5.7 4.8 5.6 5.1

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura ..................... 428.8 434.0 427.6 431.2 28.3 23.6 26.4 23.3 6.6 5.4 6.2 5.4

Redding ............................................................ 75.7 75.2 75.1 74.9 6.5 5.3 6.6 5.6 8.6 7.0 8.8 7.5

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario ................... 1,940.1 1,958.7 1,935.0 1,961.6 146.6 118.9 134.6 116.7 7.6 6.1 7.0 5.9

Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade ............. 1,050.9 1,056.1 1,046.6 1,054.6 70.5 57.7 66.1 57.9 6.7 5.5 6.3 5.5

Salinas .............................................................. 221.0 222.3 209.1 211.4 18.7 16.6 23.4 22.1 8.5 7.5 11.2 10.4

San Diego-Carlsbad ......................................... 1,559.4 1,572.9 1,551.7 1,568.3 92.9 75.6 84.6 74.4 6.0 4.8 5.5 4.7

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward ..................... 2,484.3 2,516.2 2,479.3 2,515.4 121.2 98.6 110.0 97.1 4.9 3.9 4.4 3.9

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara .................... 1,036.8 1,069.9 1,039.2 1,068.4 51.2 41.7 46.4 40.9 4.9 3.9 4.5 3.8

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande 141.1 144.0 137.3 140.6 7.7 6.3 7.1 6.3 5.4 4.4 5.1 4.5

Santa Cruz-Watsonville .................................... 142.2 141.0 138.8 137.5 11.6 10.0 12.7 11.7 8.2 7.1 9.2 8.5

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara .............................. 220.4 223.6 216.6 220.0 13.0 11.4 13.0 12.1 5.9 5.1 6.0 5.5

Santa Rosa ....................................................... 257.4 258.6 254.8 258.1 13.6 10.9 12.6 10.9 5.3 4.2 5.0 4.2

Stockton-Lodi .................................................... 310.7 311.3 309.9 312.0 31.3 26.6 30.9 27.5 10.1 8.6 10.0 8.8

Vallejo-Fairfield ................................................. 205.4 207.7 204.8 207.5 14.1 11.6 13.5 11.7 6.9 5.6 6.6 5.6

Visalia-Porterville .............................................. 197.5 196.2 197.0 197.0 24.5 21.8 25.6 24.1 12.4 11.1 13.0 12.2

Yuba City .......................................................... 72.1 71.5 71.6 71.2 8.1 6.9 8.3 7.6 11.2 9.6 11.5 10.6

Colorado .............................................................. 2,821.6 2,804.4 2,815.1 2,808.8 116.9 96.6 115.9 93.2 4.1 3.4 4.1 3.3

Boulder ............................................................. 179.4 176.6 177.0 174.6 6.2 4.9 5.9 4.6 3.4 2.8 3.3 2.6

Colorado Springs .............................................. 319.6 311.8 316.0 310.6 16.1 12.8 16.0 12.4 5.0 4.1 5.1 4.0

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood ................................ 1,501.8 1,496.6 1,497.4 1,488.9 59.7 48.2 59.5 46.4 4.0 3.2 4.0 3.1

Fort Collins ....................................................... 177.6 178.6 175.4 178.0 6.3 5.2 6.1 5.0 3.5 2.9 3.5 2.8

Grand Junction ................................................. 73.6 72.8 73.0 72.1 3.5 3.7 3.7 3.9 4.8 5.1 5.0 5.3

Greeley ............................................................. 149.3 151.2 147.9 150.7 5.4 5.1 5.4 5.0 3.6 3.4 3.7 3.3

Pueblo .............................................................. 73.4 72.3 73.0 71.7 4.3 3.6 4.3 3.5 5.9 4.9 5.9 4.9

Connecticut ......................................................... 1,899.6 1,889.3 1,887.2 1,879.4 114.3 90.5 105.9 93.3 6.0 4.8 5.6 5.0

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk ........................... 465.7 464.8 462.8 463.0 27.2 21.6 24.9 22.2 5.8 4.7 5.4 4.8

Danbury ............................................................ 106.9 105.9 106.9 105.9 4.9 4.0 4.6 4.3 4.6 3.8 4.3 4.0

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford ............... 620.3 618.8 616.4 614.2 37.2 29.6 34.9 30.7 6.0 4.8 5.7 5.0

New Haven ....................................................... 326.3 323.7 323.4 322.1 20.0 15.8 18.1 15.9 6.1 4.9 5.6 4.9

Norwich-New London-Westerly ........................ 142.9 140.3 141.7 139.3 9.5 7.3 8.8 7.5 6.6 5.2 6.2 5.4

Waterbury ......................................................... 113.2 111.7 112.5 111.3 8.5 6.7 7.9 6.8 7.5 6.0 7.0 6.1

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

November December November December November December

2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p

Delaware .............................................................. 455.5 470.2 455.8 471.8 21.6 21.2 21.1 20.4 4.7 4.5 4.6 4.3

Dover ................................................................ 76.2 76.8 76.3 77.2 3.8 3.6 3.7 3.5 5.0 4.7 4.9 4.6

Salisbury 1 ........................................................ 173.4 180.7 172.3 180.7 12.5 12.0 13.0 12.4 7.2 6.7 7.5 6.9

District of Columbia ........................................... 384.2 390.9 382.0 388.7 29.3 26.3 28.4 24.6 7.6 6.7 7.4 6.3

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria ..................... 3,263.5 3,298.8 3,239.8 3,291.1 150.5 135.7 143.4 126.1 4.6 4.1 4.4 3.8

Florida .................................................................. 9,661.9 9,626.1 9,607.7 9,629.6 553.1 468.5 516.9 456.9 5.7 4.9 5.4 4.7

Cape Coral-Fort Myers ..................................... 317.4 319.1 315.3 319.7 17.2 14.4 15.8 13.7 5.4 4.5 5.0 4.3

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin ............... 117.7 116.2 116.8 114.5 5.9 4.9 5.6 4.8 5.0 4.2 4.8 4.2

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach .......... 280.8 280.0 278.7 279.4 17.8 14.5 16.6 14.1 6.3 5.2 6.0 5.0

Gainesville ........................................................ 139.1 137.5 137.1 135.8 6.8 5.7 6.2 5.5 4.9 4.2 4.6 4.1

Homosassa Springs ......................................... 48.3 46.9 47.9 46.8 3.8 3.1 3.6 3.1 7.8 6.7 7.6 6.6

Jacksonville ...................................................... 717.5 713.2 715.3 716.7 41.1 33.5 38.0 32.0 5.7 4.7 5.3 4.5

Lakeland-Winter Haven .................................... 281.0 281.9 279.2 282.9 18.7 15.5 17.2 14.9 6.7 5.5 6.2 5.3

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach ........ 3,022.0 3,017.7 3,003.7 3,021.1 167.8 151.2 160.2 151.0 5.6 5.0 5.3 5.0

Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island ...................... 163.8 163.5 165.0 164.5 8.9 7.6 8.1 7.3 5.5 4.7 4.9 4.4

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton ........................ 340.5 337.1 339.4 336.7 18.2 15.3 16.8 14.7 5.3 4.5 4.9 4.4

Ocala ................................................................ 133.8 131.8 133.1 131.4 9.1 7.5 8.5 7.3 6.8 5.7 6.4 5.6

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford ............................ 1,218.9 1,222.4 1,211.5 1,222.0 67.2 54.9 62.2 53.0 5.5 4.5 5.1 4.3

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville ......................... 257.2 256.2 256.4 255.5 16.5 13.5 15.3 13.0 6.4 5.3 6.0 5.1

Panama City ..................................................... 92.0 88.9 90.8 88.6 5.7 4.6 5.6 4.6 6.2 5.1 6.1 5.2

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent ............................ 214.6 212.6 212.8 211.3 11.9 10.1 11.1 9.8 5.5 4.8 5.2 4.7

Port St. Lucie .................................................... 201.1 199.5 199.5 198.9 12.9 10.5 11.8 10.2 6.4 5.3 5.9 5.1

Punta Gorda ..................................................... 66.9 66.6 66.7 66.7 4.2 3.5 3.9 3.4 6.3 5.3 5.8 5.1

Sebastian-Vero Beach ...................................... 62.1 60.8 61.8 60.8 4.2 3.7 3.8 3.6 6.8 6.1 6.2 5.9

Sebring ............................................................. 36.4 35.4 37.0 36.1 2.8 2.4 2.6 2.3 7.8 6.7 7.0 6.3

Tallahassee ...................................................... 191.7 187.2 189.9 186.9 10.4 8.7 9.5 8.4 5.4 4.7 5.0 4.5

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater .................... 1,438.7 1,438.1 1,430.6 1,439.0 81.3 66.4 75.4 64.0 5.7 4.6 5.3 4.4

The Villages ...................................................... 28.5 28.2 28.3 28.3 2.1 1.8 2.0 1.8 7.4 6.4 7.0 6.3

Georgia ................................................................ 4,758.3 4,758.6 4,748.4 4,772.6 305.4 247.6 298.4 249.4 6.4 5.2 6.3 5.2

Albany ............................................................... 66.4 64.5 66.0 64.3 5.0 4.1 4.8 4.1 7.5 6.4 7.3 6.4

Athens-Clarke County ...................................... 95.9 95.2 95.3 95.6 5.4 4.5 5.3 4.6 5.7 4.7 5.5 4.8

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell ...................... 2,813.8 2,827.7 2,815.4 2,835.7 172.1 140.0 168.1 140.3 6.1 4.9 6.0 4.9

Augusta-Richmond County ............................... 256.2 254.7 256.2 256.1 17.3 14.5 16.8 14.6 6.7 5.7 6.6 5.7

Brunswick ......................................................... 50.1 49.1 49.9 49.1 3.5 2.7 3.4 2.8 6.9 5.5 6.7 5.7

Columbus ......................................................... 126.9 126.3 126.0 127.1 9.1 7.9 8.8 8.1 7.2 6.3 7.0 6.4

Dalton ............................................................... 60.7 59.8 60.6 60.0 4.5 3.6 4.4 3.6 7.5 6.0 7.2 6.1

Gainesville ........................................................ 90.8 90.7 90.6 91.0 4.7 3.8 4.6 3.9 5.2 4.2 5.0 4.3

Hinesville .......................................................... 32.4 31.5 32.3 31.5 2.2 1.8 2.2 1.8 6.9 5.6 6.9 5.6

Macon ............................................................... 104.7 101.7 104.4 102.1 7.2 5.8 7.0 5.9 6.9 5.7 6.7 5.8

Rome ................................................................ 43.2 42.6 43.1 42.8 3.0 2.5 3.0 2.5 6.9 5.8 6.9 5.9

Savannah ......................................................... 174.4 173.5 172.5 175.3 10.7 8.4 10.6 8.7 6.1 4.9 6.1 5.0

Valdosta ............................................................ 63.7 61.5 63.0 61.3 4.2 3.3 4.0 3.3 6.6 5.3 6.4 5.3

Warner Robins .................................................. 81.1 78.7 81.0 79.0 5.4 4.4 5.2 4.4 6.6 5.6 6.4 5.6

Hawaii .................................................................. 671.8 682.0 670.6 682.9 27.9 22.1 25.0 20.0 4.2 3.2 3.7 2.9

Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina .................................. 83.0 83.8 83.2 84.0 3.5 2.8 3.1 2.6 4.2 3.4 3.8 3.1

Urban Honolulu ................................................. 468.3 477.4 469.2 477.1 18.4 14.4 16.4 13.0 3.9 3.0 3.5 2.7

Idaho .................................................................... 774.8 796.7 771.8 799.3 33.8 30.9 33.6 32.0 4.4 3.9 4.4 4.0

Boise City ......................................................... 313.7 321.2 313.6 323.2 13.1 12.0 12.7 12.0 4.2 3.7 4.0 3.7

Coeur d’Alene ................................................... 70.6 73.6 70.7 74.2 3.6 3.4 3.8 3.7 5.2 4.6 5.4 5.0

Idaho Falls ........................................................ 63.3 66.1 63.3 66.5 2.4 2.2 2.4 2.2 3.8 3.3 3.7 3.3

Lewiston ........................................................... 30.4 30.8 29.9 31.0 1.3 1.1 1.3 1.2 4.4 3.7 4.4 3.9

Pocatello ........................................................... 42.4 43.6 42.2 43.4 1.8 1.6 1.8 1.6 4.3 3.6 4.3 3.6

Illinois .................................................................. 6,528.3 6,550.8 6,491.4 6,536.2 389.4 379.6 373.8 388.5 6.0 5.8 5.8 5.9

Bloomington .................................................. 99.1 101.8 98.2 100.2 5.0 5.5 4.7 5.4 5.0 5.4 4.8 5.4

Carbondale-Marion ........................................... 59.0 59.4 57.9 58.3 3.7 4.1 3.5 3.8 6.3 6.9 6.0 6.5

Champaign-Urbana .......................................... 120.7 124.5 119.5 122.6 6.4 7.1 6.0 6.6 5.3 5.7 5.0 5.4

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin .................................. 4,906.5 4,880.2 4,883.8 4,890.9 290.5 262.3 280.3 280.2 5.9 5.4 5.7 5.7

Danville ............................................................. 35.7 36.8 35.5 36.4 2.6 2.9 2.5 2.7 7.3 7.7 7.0 7.4

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island 1 ...................... 194.1 191.8 194.1 189.7 11.2 11.2 11.5 11.1 5.8 5.8 5.9 5.9

Decatur ............................................................. 50.6 51.2 50.1 50.1 3.7 3.9 3.5 3.7 7.4 7.6 7.0 7.4

Kankakee .......................................................... 56.0 57.2 55.5 56.8 3.9 4.1 3.8 4.0 6.9 7.2 6.8 7.0

Peoria ............................................................... 186.9 191.2 184.7 189.2 11.8 13.6 11.4 13.2 6.3 7.1 6.2 7.0

Rockford ........................................................... 168.4 172.3 167.5 170.6 12.1 12.9 11.6 12.3 7.2 7.5 6.9 7.2

Springfield ......................................................... 110.3 113.7 109.8 112.3 6.1 6.5 5.8 6.1 5.5 5.7 5.3 5.4

Indiana ................................................................. 3,264.5 3,297.8 3,239.6 3,290.3 192.3 147.3 186.2 150.2 5.9 4.5 5.7 4.6

Bloomington ...................................................... 79.2 79.1 77.4 78.1 4.7 3.7 4.3 3.7 5.9 4.7 5.6 4.7

Columbus ......................................................... 43.6 44.9 43.4 44.9 1.9 1.5 1.8 1.5 4.4 3.3 4.2 3.3

Elkhart-Goshen ................................................. 102.5 105.4 101.5 105.0 5.3 3.9 4.9 3.8 5.1 3.7 4.9 3.6

Evansville ......................................................... 159.8 160.3 157.9 159.3 8.2 6.5 7.8 6.6 5.1 4.1 4.9 4.1

Fort Wayne ....................................................... 207.8 208.5 205.4 208.1 11.5 8.9 11.1 9.1 5.5 4.3 5.4 4.4

Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson ......................... 1,005.9 1,019.4 996.5 1,020.1 56.6 42.6 54.0 42.0 5.6 4.2 5.4 4.1

Kokomo ............................................................ 37.4 37.9 37.2 38.0 2.4 1.7 2.2 1.8 6.3 4.6 6.0 4.8

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

November December November December November December

2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p

Indiana—Continued

Lafayette-West Lafayette .................................. 109.1 110.0 108.0 109.3 5.5 4.5 5.1 4.4 5.0 4.1 4.7 4.0

Michigan City-La Porte ..................................... 49.1 48.2 48.9 48.6 3.6 2.8 3.8 3.1 7.4 5.7 7.8 6.4

Muncie .............................................................. 54.7 55.0 54.1 55.0 3.7 2.9 3.6 3.0 6.8 5.3 6.7 5.4

South Bend-Mishawaka .................................... 155.0 154.1 153.8 153.7 9.5 7.0 9.3 7.2 6.1 4.6 6.1 4.7

Terre Haute ...................................................... 78.5 77.2 77.6 77.3 5.7 4.3 5.6 4.5 7.2 5.6 7.2 5.9

Iowa ...................................................................... 1,714.3 1,702.8 1,706.5 1,700.0 67.1 53.8 74.7 60.6 3.9 3.2 4.4 3.6

Ames ................................................................ 59.3 59.0 58.8 58.2 1.4 1.1 1.5 1.3 2.4 1.9 2.6 2.2

Cedar Rapids .................................................... 144.3 143.3 144.1 143.1 5.9 4.7 6.5 5.1 4.1 3.3 4.5 3.6

Des Moines-West Des Moines ......................... 340.3 342.9 341.0 342.7 13.0 10.1 14.1 10.9 3.8 2.9 4.1 3.2

Dubuque ........................................................... 56.7 55.5 57.0 55.9 2.0 1.7 2.4 2.0 3.5 3.0 4.2 3.7

Iowa City ........................................................... 97.9 97.3 97.0 96.9 2.6 2.2 2.9 2.4 2.7 2.2 3.0 2.5

Sioux City ......................................................... 94.5 93.8 94.3 93.7 4.0 3.0 4.0 3.4 4.2 3.2 4.2 3.7

Waterloo-Cedar Falls ........................................ 94.3 92.4 93.9 91.6 4.4 3.4 4.8 3.9 4.7 3.7 5.1 4.2

Kansas ................................................................. 1,506.3 1,512.8 1,500.5 1,510.5 58.4 52.6 56.6 54.5 3.9 3.5 3.8 3.6

Lawrence .......................................................... 65.4 67.1 65.3 66.5 2.2 1.9 2.1 2.0 3.3 2.9 3.2 3.0

Manhattan ......................................................... 51.0 52.8 50.1 51.7 1.5 1.4 1.5 1.4 3.0 2.6 3.0 2.8

Topeka .............................................................. 121.6 121.8 120.9 121.9 4.9 4.2 4.9 4.4 4.1 3.5 4.0 3.6

Wichita .............................................................. 310.9 313.4 309.5 314.0 14.1 12.3 13.6 12.7 4.5 3.9 4.4 4.0

Kentucky ............................................................. 1,983.2 1,946.7 1,966.8 1,955.5 104.6 94.3 99.3 106.8 5.3 4.8 5.1 5.5

Bowling Green .................................................. 77.7 76.2 77.3 76.7 3.8 3.3 3.5 3.5 4.8 4.3 4.5 4.6

Elizabethtown-Fort Knox .................................. 63.6 62.4 63.1 62.4 3.4 3.0 3.2 3.2 5.3 4.7 5.0 5.2

Lexington-Fayette ............................................. 258.9 256.2 255.8 256.4 10.5 9.5 9.4 10.4 4.1 3.7 3.7 4.0

Louisville/Jefferson County ............................... 630.7 624.7 626.5 628.3 31.1 26.2 29.1 28.5 4.9 4.2 4.6 4.5

Owensboro ....................................................... 53.4 52.5 53.3 52.7 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 5.1

Louisiana ............................................................. 2,202.6 2,137.8 2,180.3 2,109.8 148.7 125.0 141.0 106.5 6.8 5.8 6.5 5.0

Alexandria ......................................................... 68.6 65.8 68.2 65.1 4.9 3.9 4.7 3.4 7.1 6.0 6.9 5.2

Baton Rouge ..................................................... 427.3 423.0 421.1 416.6 26.0 20.7 24.6 17.4 6.1 4.9 5.9 4.2

Hammond ......................................................... 55.7 54.0 55.3 53.3 4.3 3.5 4.2 3.1 7.7 6.5 7.6 5.7

Houma-Thibodaux ............................................ 105.2 101.0 104.6 99.6 5.6 5.7 5.1 4.9 5.4 5.6 4.9 4.9

Lafayette ........................................................... 237.5 229.1 234.6 225.6 13.8 14.4 12.7 12.3 5.8 6.3 5.4 5.4

Lake Charles .................................................... 102.3 102.8 102.3 101.6 6.2 4.9 5.9 4.3 6.1 4.8 5.8 4.3

Monroe ............................................................. 83.5 79.9 82.8 78.7 6.2 4.9 6.0 4.1 7.4 6.1 7.2 5.2

New Orleans-Metairie ....................................... 609.7 589.1 603.3 582.9 41.3 32.9 38.9 27.5 6.8 5.6 6.4 4.7

Shreveport-Bossier City .................................... 199.6 192.0 197.1 188.6 14.9 12.4 14.0 10.4 7.5 6.4 7.1 5.5

Maine ................................................................... 691.0 675.5 689.7 673.1 36.5 26.2 36.7 25.8 5.3 3.9 5.3 3.8

Bangor .............................................................. 72.0 70.7 72.2 70.6 3.6 2.6 3.5 2.6 5.0 3.7 4.9 3.7

Lewiston-Auburn ............................................... 56.6 55.0 56.7 55.0 2.8 2.0 2.7 1.9 4.9 3.6 4.9 3.4

Portland-South Portland ................................... 200.1 197.1 199.6 197.2 8.4 6.1 8.1 5.6 4.2 3.1 4.0 2.8

Maryland .............................................................. 3,107.9 3,173.7 3,091.6 3,165.3 167.8 159.5 160.6 145.6 5.4 5.0 5.2 4.6

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson ............................ 1,455.8 1,486.0 1,451.1 1,485.4 82.5 77.6 78.7 71.0 5.7 5.2 5.4 4.8

California-Lexington Park ................................. 53.6 55.1 53.3 54.7 2.6 2.6 2.4 2.4 4.9 4.8 4.6 4.3

Cumberland ...................................................... 44.8 45.0 44.5 44.7 2.9 2.8 3.0 2.8 6.4 6.1 6.7 6.2

Hagerstown-Martinsburg .................................. 126.8 127.2 126.2 126.9 6.8 6.0 6.8 5.8 5.4 4.7 5.4 4.6

Massachusetts .................................................... 3,587.9 3,550.8 3,576.9 3,545.0 179.3 161.2 176.0 164.4 5.0 4.5 4.9 4.6

Barnstable Town ............................................... 120.3 118.5 118.7 117.8 7.3 6.7 7.7 7.4 6.0 5.7 6.5 6.3

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua .............................. 2,638.4 2,615.5 2,627.9 2,607.4 120.2 107.8 115.5 107.0 4.6 4.1 4.4 4.1

Leominster-Gardner ......................................... 77.0 75.4 77.0 75.6 4.6 4.0 4.6 4.2 6.0 5.4 6.0 5.6

New Bedford ..................................................... 84.3 83.0 85.0 83.7 6.2 5.5 6.3 5.8 7.3 6.6 7.4 6.9

Pittsfield ............................................................ 43.8 42.9 44.0 43.4 2.5 2.3 2.6 2.4 5.7 5.4 5.9 5.6

Springfield ......................................................... 367.9 364.3 367.3 364.2 22.1 19.1 21.9 20.1 6.0 5.2 6.0 5.5

Worcester ......................................................... 348.5 345.7 348.1 345.8 18.7 16.3 18.4 16.7 5.4 4.7 5.3 4.8

Michigan .............................................................. 4,738.1 4,760.4 4,711.6 4,760.3 273.0 214.1 263.6 214.7 5.8 4.5 5.6 4.5

Ann Arbor ......................................................... 189.5 191.2 186.9 191.3 6.9 5.6 6.3 4.9 3.6 2.9 3.3 2.6

Battle Creek ...................................................... 64.6 65.0 64.0 64.9 3.2 2.7 3.1 2.5 4.9 4.1 4.8 3.9

Bay City ............................................................ 53.1 53.2 53.0 53.4 2.8 2.3 3.0 2.3 5.2 4.3 5.6 4.3

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn .................................. 2,011.3 2,002.4 2,003.3 2,005.0 138.9 104.7 129.4 108.6 6.9 5.2 6.5 5.4

Flint ................................................................... 185.2 184.5 184.7 184.5 10.9 8.8 10.7 8.5 5.9 4.8 5.8 4.6

Grand Rapids-Wyoming ................................... 546.0 561.5 541.9 561.7 20.8 16.8 20.1 15.6 3.8 3.0 3.7 2.8

Jackson ............................................................ 72.7 72.9 72.3 72.8 3.7 3.0 3.7 2.9 5.2 4.2 5.1 4.0

Kalamazoo-Portage .......................................... 163.7 166.4 162.1 166.6 7.7 6.2 7.6 5.9 4.7 3.7 4.7 3.5

Lansing-East Lansing ....................................... 243.6 244.5 239.8 242.4 10.4 8.3 10.0 7.7 4.3 3.4 4.2 3.2

Midland ............................................................. 41.4 41.7 41.2 41.8 1.9 1.6 1.9 1.6 4.6 3.9 4.6 3.8

Monroe ............................................................. 75.6 76.7 75.2 76.5 3.3 2.8 3.2 2.6 4.4 3.6 4.3 3.3

Muskegon ......................................................... 76.6 77.9 76.1 77.6 4.3 3.6 4.3 3.3 5.7 4.6 5.7 4.2

Niles-Benton Harbor ......................................... 72.5 73.9 72.0 73.7 3.8 3.1 3.8 3.0 5.2 4.2 5.2 4.0

Saginaw ............................................................ 90.0 90.5 89.5 90.9 5.0 4.0 4.9 3.9 5.5 4.4 5.5 4.2

Minnesota ............................................................ 2,976.6 3,010.4 2,964.8 3,033.6 95.3 90.0 105.3 108.7 3.2 3.0 3.6 3.6

Duluth ............................................................... 142.0 143.5 141.2 144.2 5.9 6.9 6.1 8.0 4.2 4.8 4.3 5.5

Mankato-North Mankato ................................... 59.8 59.3 59.0 59.7 1.3 1.3 1.5 1.5 2.3 2.1 2.6 2.5

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

November December November December November December

2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p

Minnesota—Continued

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington ................... 1,916.5 1,930.3 1,905.5 1,942.3 58.5 53.4 61.7 60.6 3.1 2.8 3.2 3.1

Rochester ......................................................... 116.8 116.9 116.7 117.4 3.2 2.8 3.6 3.4 2.7 2.4 3.1 2.9

St. Cloud ........................................................... 109.8 109.3 109.9 110.6 3.7 3.2 4.2 4.1 3.3 3.0 3.8 3.7

Mississippi .......................................................... 1,221.7 1,288.8 1,225.5 1,302.1 81.4 75.4 87.3 93.8 6.7 5.8 7.1 7.2

Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula ............................... 157.3 165.0 157.4 166.9 10.7 10.0 11.2 12.1 6.8 6.0 7.1 7.3

Hattiesburg ....................................................... 64.2 67.4 64.8 68.0 3.7 3.5 3.9 4.4 5.7 5.2 6.0 6.4

Jackson ............................................................ 256.5 273.4 258.1 275.3 13.8 13.1 14.7 16.4 5.4 4.8 5.7 6.0

Missouri ............................................................... 3,072.6 3,112.6 3,068.4 3,125.2 155.6 127.9 156.8 123.8 5.1 4.1 5.1 4.0

Cape Girardeau ................................................ 50.1 49.0 49.7 48.7 2.3 2.0 2.2 1.9 4.6 4.1 4.5 3.9

Columbia .......................................................... 100.8 103.4 100.5 103.8 3.4 2.9 3.2 2.7 3.4 2.8 3.2 2.6

Jefferson City .................................................... 76.7 76.7 76.3 76.6 3.2 2.6 3.3 2.5 4.2 3.4 4.4 3.3

Joplin ................................................................ 88.0 89.8 87.6 90.2 3.9 3.1 3.7 3.0 4.4 3.4 4.2 3.3

Kansas City ...................................................... 1,102.7 1,116.3 1,107.1 1,118.9 52.6 43.3 51.3 42.5 4.8 3.9 4.6 3.8

St. Joseph ......................................................... 66.6 66.1 66.5 66.3 3.0 2.5 3.0 2.4 4.5 3.7 4.4 3.6

St. Louis 2 ......................................................... 1,452.2 1,473.2 1,448.2 1,480.0 77.9 68.0 76.1 63.8 5.4 4.6 5.3 4.3

Springfield ......................................................... 230.1 236.4 229.3 238.0 9.8 8.5 9.7 8.1 4.3 3.6 4.2 3.4

Montana ............................................................... 513.7 520.4 510.2 517.8 23.4 21.0 23.3 22.1 4.6 4.0 4.6 4.3

Billings .............................................................. 86.8 89.3 85.9 89.4 3.1 2.7 2.9 3.0 3.6 3.1 3.4 3.3

Great Falls ........................................................ 38.5 38.3 38.2 38.1 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.6 4.3 4.1 4.2 4.1

Missoula ........................................................... 60.3 61.7 59.6 60.8 2.5 2.2 2.6 2.4 4.2 3.6 4.4 4.0

Nebraska ............................................................. 1,019.9 1,012.5 1,015.7 1,011.6 27.7 25.6 29.4 28.0 2.7 2.5 2.9 2.8

Grand Island ..................................................... 45.1 43.8 45.0 44.0 1.3 1.2 1.4 1.4 3.0 2.8 3.2 3.2

Lincoln .............................................................. 180.5 181.3 179.8 181.1 4.2 3.8 4.6 4.2 2.3 2.1 2.6 2.3

Omaha-Council Bluffs ....................................... 479.5 480.9 478.1 480.1 14.8 13.3 15.3 14.3 3.1 2.8 3.2 3.0

Nevada ................................................................. 1,397.4 1,429.4 1,395.2 1,417.8 97.1 89.9 96.0 86.6 6.9 6.3 6.9 6.1

Carson City ....................................................... 24.7 25.0 24.7 24.8 1.9 1.7 1.9 1.7 7.5 6.8 7.5 6.7

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise ...................... 1,024.7 1,051.7 1,023.3 1,040.0 72.1 66.8 71.2 64.3 7.0 6.4 7.0 6.2

Reno ................................................................. 224.8 229.9 224.6 229.7 14.7 13.1 14.5 12.7 6.5 5.7 6.5 5.5

New Hampshire ................................................... 739.9 736.7 739.2 734.1 28.8 23.2 28.3 21.3 3.9 3.2 3.8 2.9

Dover-Durham .................................................. 82.6 82.1 82.4 82.0 2.9 2.3 2.9 2.2 3.5 2.8 3.5 2.6

Manchester ....................................................... 115.7 115.7 115.9 115.1 4.3 3.5 4.2 3.2 3.8 3.1 3.6 2.8

Portsmouth ....................................................... 71.7 71.6 71.0 71.2 2.7 2.0 2.5 1.8 3.7 2.8 3.5 2.6

New Jersey .......................................................... 4,529.5 4,557.6 4,522.8 4,569.4 268.3 227.2 264.3 201.0 5.9 5.0 5.8 4.4

Atlantic City-Hammonton .................................. 131.7 128.6 132.1 127.7 13.9 10.2 14.2 9.3 10.6 7.9 10.7 7.3

Ocean City ........................................................ 45.5 44.4 45.7 44.2 6.3 5.6 6.7 5.4 13.9 12.5 14.6 12.3

Trenton ............................................................. 195.1 199.6 195.1 200.6 9.7 8.5 9.6 7.4 5.0 4.2 4.9 3.7

Vineland-Bridgeton ........................................... 67.2 66.8 67.8 67.3 5.9 5.2 6.2 4.9 8.7 7.8 9.1 7.3

New Mexico ......................................................... 926.1 918.0 922.6 915.5 54.9 59.5 52.0 56.9 5.9 6.5 5.6 6.2

Albuquerque ..................................................... 416.5 416.6 414.5 413.7 24.0 24.9 22.5 23.5 5.8 6.0 5.4 5.7

Farmington ....................................................... 56.9 56.0 56.8 56.1 3.1 4.0 3.0 4.1 5.4 7.1 5.2 7.3

Las Cruces ....................................................... 94.3 92.0 94.1 92.3 6.0 6.6 5.9 6.4 6.4 7.2 6.3 6.9

Santa Fe ........................................................... 72.3 70.7 71.8 70.6 3.5 3.8 3.2 3.6 4.9 5.4 4.5 5.1

New York ............................................................. 9,530.2 9,689.0 9,471.7 9,737.1 546.0 454.6 525.9 455.1 5.7 4.7 5.6 4.7

Albany-Schenectady-Troy ................................ 442.6 451.4 439.6 452.0 19.9 18.2 19.5 18.0 4.5 4.0 4.4 4.0

Binghamton ...................................................... 111.8 111.0 110.9 111.2 6.5 5.8 6.6 6.0 5.8 5.3 6.0 5.4

Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls ................. 546.4 554.4 541.7 557.1 30.8 27.4 30.7 27.5 5.6 4.9 5.7 4.9

Elmira ............................................................... 38.0 38.3 37.9 38.8 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 5.6 5.4 5.5 5.4

Glens Falls ........................................................ 59.0 59.8 58.6 60.1 3.5 3.0 3.6 3.3 5.9 5.1 6.2 5.4

Ithaca ................................................................ 55.6 55.3 54.8 55.3 2.2 2.0 2.0 1.9 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.4

Kingston ............................................................ 87.6 88.1 86.7 88.4 4.5 3.8 4.3 3.8 5.1 4.3 5.0 4.3

New York-Newark-Jersey City .......................... 9,938.7 10,092.2 9,899.2 10,136.3 572.6 471.8 547.5 450.5 5.8 4.7 5.5 4.4

Rochester ......................................................... 520.7 527.7 516.2 530.4 27.3 24.1 27.3 24.3 5.3 4.6 5.3 4.6

Syracuse ........................................................... 310.4 313.8 307.6 316.5 17.1 15.1 17.1 15.3 5.5 4.8 5.5 4.8

Utica-Rome ....................................................... 131.2 132.3 130.1 133.7 7.5 6.5 7.6 6.7 5.7 4.9 5.9 5.0

Watertown-Fort Drum ....................................... 45.4 45.4 45.0 45.7 3.2 2.9 3.4 3.1 7.1 6.5 7.5 6.8

North Carolina ..................................................... 4,648.2 4,788.2 4,594.0 4,752.7 249.4 260.2 231.7 249.8 5.4 5.4 5.0 5.3

Asheville ........................................................... 214.4 220.0 212.0 218.9 8.8 9.4 8.4 9.1 4.1 4.3 4.0 4.2

Burlington ......................................................... 76.6 79.1 76.1 78.7 3.7 3.9 3.5 3.8 4.9 5.0 4.6 4.8

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia ............................. 1,193.0 1,242.6 1,184.6 1,239.6 63.8 63.1 59.1 60.5 5.3 5.1 5.0 4.9

Durham-Chapel Hill .......................................... 272.5 283.0 271.3 281.9 12.1 13.3 11.4 12.8 4.5 4.7 4.2 4.5

Fayetteville ....................................................... 143.7 145.7 142.9 144.6 9.9 10.4 9.1 9.8 6.9 7.1 6.4 6.8

Goldsboro ......................................................... 54.2 53.8 53.1 52.5 3.1 3.1 2.8 3.1 5.7 5.8 5.3 5.9

Greensboro-High Point ..................................... 356.3 371.6 353.7 369.5 19.9 20.5 18.3 19.6 5.6 5.5 5.2 5.3

Greenville ......................................................... 86.0 87.8 85.1 86.9 4.7 5.0 4.3 4.9 5.5 5.7 5.1 5.6

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton ................................ 165.6 166.9 163.1 165.2 9.1 9.1 8.4 8.7 5.5 5.4 5.2 5.3

Jacksonville ...................................................... 63.7 64.6 63.1 63.8 3.4 3.8 3.2 3.6 5.4 5.9 5.0 5.7

New Bern .......................................................... 50.5 50.6 49.7 50.1 3.0 3.0 2.8 2.9 5.9 5.9 5.5 5.7

Raleigh ............................................................. 633.2 653.5 629.7 653.4 27.5 29.8 25.6 28.6 4.3 4.6 4.1 4.4

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

November December November December November December

2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p

North Carolina—Continued

Rocky Mount ..................................................... 67.4 68.0 66.2 67.1 5.1 5.2 4.7 4.9 7.5 7.6 7.1 7.3

Wilmington ........................................................ 134.7 137.2 131.6 134.3 6.9 7.4 6.4 7.2 5.1 5.4 4.9 5.4

Winston-Salem ................................................. 309.7 321.0 306.4 320.5 15.7 16.4 14.6 15.7 5.1 5.1 4.8 4.9

North Dakota ....................................................... 417.3 410.4 416.3 411.5 10.2 9.8 11.7 11.4 2.4 2.4 2.8 2.8

Bismarck ........................................................... 66.0 66.4 66.2 67.1 1.7 1.4 2.0 1.8 2.6 2.2 3.1 2.7

Fargo ................................................................ 130.5 129.8 131.0 132.0 2.8 2.5 3.5 3.1 2.2 1.9 2.7 2.4

Grand Forks ...................................................... 55.5 55.6 55.1 55.8 1.5 1.2 1.7 1.5 2.7 2.2 3.1 2.7

Ohio ..................................................................... 5,744.0 5,719.5 5,697.3 5,703.4 281.1 252.6 270.5 263.9 4.9 4.4 4.7 4.6

Akron ................................................................ 360.2 360.7 357.9 360.4 17.9 16.7 17.5 17.2 5.0 4.6 4.9 4.8

Canton-Massillon .............................................. 202.0 202.8 201.5 202.1 9.9 10.6 9.8 10.6 4.9 5.2 4.9 5.2

Cincinnati .......................................................... 1,080.8 1,077.1 1,069.1 1,071.8 49.7 44.8 46.2 45.7 4.6 4.2 4.3 4.3

Cleveland-Elyria ............................................... 1,046.1 1,026.2 1,033.7 1,015.0 55.7 38.2 53.3 40.1 5.3 3.7 5.2 3.9

Columbus ......................................................... 1,039.7 1,043.3 1,034.1 1,041.2 42.9 40.2 39.9 40.5 4.1 3.9 3.9 3.9

Dayton .............................................................. 384.8 383.3 380.8 383.0 18.8 17.2 17.7 17.3 4.9 4.5 4.6 4.5

Lima .................................................................. 48.8 49.5 48.7 49.8 2.3 2.2 2.3 2.2 4.8 4.4 4.6 4.4

Mansfield .......................................................... 54.6 53.8 54.4 53.6 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.0 5.6 5.4 5.5 5.6

Springfield ......................................................... 65.8 65.0 65.6 65.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 4.8 4.7 4.6 4.8

Toledo ............................................................... 299.9 299.5 299.5 300.5 15.4 13.9 15.1 14.5 5.1 4.6 5.0 4.8

Weirton-Steubenville 1 ..................................... 52.3 52.9 51.7 52.3 3.5 3.6 3.4 3.9 6.6 6.9 6.7 7.4

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman ....................... 255.2 253.0 251.5 256.6 14.2 14.2 13.6 17.7 5.5 5.6 5.4 6.9

Oklahoma ............................................................ 1,796.6 1,862.7 1,779.4 1,848.6 72.0 78.6 68.0 72.7 4.0 4.2 3.8 3.9

Lawton .............................................................. 51.7 52.2 50.9 52.0 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.0 4.3 4.3 4.1 3.9

Oklahoma City .................................................. 653.3 681.3 646.1 674.4 23.0 24.4 21.6 22.3 3.5 3.6 3.3 3.3

Tulsa ................................................................. 467.8 481.7 463.7 478.1 18.8 20.6 17.8 18.9 4.0 4.3 3.8 3.9

Oregon ................................................................. 1,967.3 1,992.3 1,951.3 1,977.4 127.8 105.2 124.5 102.3 6.5 5.3 6.4 5.2

Albany ............................................................... 54.8 54.8 54.4 54.3 4.3 3.7 4.2 3.5 7.8 6.8 7.6 6.4

Bend-Redmond ................................................ 82.1 82.7 81.5 81.9 6.0 4.7 6.0 4.7 7.3 5.7 7.3 5.8

Corvallis ............................................................ 45.7 45.5 45.2 45.0 2.2 1.8 2.1 1.8 4.8 3.9 4.7 4.0

Eugene ............................................................. 172.0 173.3 172.2 172.6 11.5 9.5 11.1 9.2 6.7 5.5 6.4 5.3

Grants Pass ...................................................... 33.5 33.8 33.3 33.1 3.0 2.5 2.9 2.4 9.0 7.5 8.8 7.3

Medford ............................................................ 99.7 101.0 98.8 99.7 7.6 6.2 7.5 5.9 7.6 6.1 7.5 5.9

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro ........................... 1,219.9 1,241.3 1,212.8 1,239.3 73.0 59.4 70.6 58.0 6.0 4.8 5.8 4.7

Salem ............................................................... 188.0 189.6 185.8 187.4 13.0 10.6 12.6 10.5 6.9 5.6 6.8 5.6

Pennsylvania ....................................................... 6,358.2 6,419.0 6,322.6 6,427.8 310.7 283.1 291.4 263.6 4.9 4.4 4.6 4.1

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton ........................... 423.5 423.0 422.6 422.8 21.8 18.7 20.4 17.1 5.1 4.4 4.8 4.0

Altoona ............................................................. 60.3 60.0 60.3 60.2 2.8 2.6 2.8 2.5 4.7 4.4 4.7 4.2

Bloomsburg-Berwick ......................................... 43.4 43.7 43.3 43.4 2.0 1.8 2.1 1.8 4.7 4.2 4.7 4.2

Chambersburg-Waynesboro ............................ 76.0 76.2 76.3 76.7 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.0 4.4 4.3 4.3 3.9

East Stroudsburg .............................................. 78.7 78.9 78.6 78.6 5.0 4.3 4.6 4.0 6.3 5.4 5.8 5.1

Erie ................................................................... 133.8 134.9 133.0 134.8 6.7 6.4 6.4 6.1 5.0 4.8 4.8 4.5

Gettysburg ........................................................ 55.0 54.9 54.9 54.7 2.0 1.8 1.9 1.7 3.7 3.3 3.5 3.0

Harrisburg-Carlisle ............................................ 287.2 294.0 285.5 295.2 11.8 10.3 10.9 9.4 4.1 3.5 3.8 3.2

Johnstown ........................................................ 62.7 62.1 62.3 62.1 3.6 3.4 3.5 3.4 5.8 5.4 5.6 5.4

Lancaster .......................................................... 269.1 273.2 267.6 276.0 10.3 9.2 9.6 8.3 3.8 3.4 3.6 3.0

Lebanon ............................................................ 69.6 69.0 69.5 69.3 2.8 2.6 2.6 2.4 4.1 3.8 3.8 3.4

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington .................... 3,029.1 3,061.8 3,016.2 3,066.2 160.4 140.3 149.2 126.1 5.3 4.6 4.9 4.1

Pittsburgh ......................................................... 1,205.2 1,222.0 1,195.4 1,222.7 57.0 54.8 54.1 52.0 4.7 4.5 4.5 4.3

Reading ............................................................ 211.1 212.3 210.5 212.7 9.6 8.5 8.9 7.8 4.6 4.0 4.2 3.7

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton .................... 279.7 285.2 279.8 285.1 16.0 14.0 15.3 13.2 5.7 4.9 5.5 4.6

State College .................................................... 80.5 79.7 78.3 79.3 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.4 3.4 3.2 3.3 3.0

Williamsport ...................................................... 61.5 60.0 61.2 60.1 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.2 5.1 5.4 5.1 5.4

York-Hanover ................................................... 229.3 230.7 227.7 231.3 10.3 8.8 9.7 8.0 4.5 3.8 4.3 3.5

Rhode Island ....................................................... 552.2 556.7 548.8 555.1 35.7 27.4 34.4 26.7 6.5 4.9 6.3 4.8

Providence-Warwick ......................................... 679.7 682.8 675.9 681.1 42.9 33.8 41.8 33.6 6.3 5.0 6.2 4.9

South Carolina .................................................... 2,204.8 2,247.4 2,191.9 2,253.8 142.3 118.0 139.4 119.6 6.5 5.3 6.4 5.3

Charleston-North Charleston ............................ 349.2 357.9 348.2 357.0 19.4 16.0 18.9 16.1 5.6 4.5 5.4 4.5

Columbia .......................................................... 384.5 394.6 380.4 395.4 22.4 19.4 21.8 19.4 5.8 4.9 5.7 4.9

Florence ............................................................ 93.7 93.6 93.4 94.1 6.9 5.7 6.8 5.9 7.4 6.1 7.3 6.2

Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin ........................... 404.8 412.4 403.0 415.0 23.2 18.9 22.4 19.0 5.7 4.6 5.6 4.6

Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort ................ 79.9 79.7 79.0 79.1 4.6 3.8 4.6 3.8 5.8 4.7 5.8 4.9

Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach ...... 178.2 181.0 174.2 179.1 13.1 12.0 13.8 12.7 7.3 6.6 7.9 7.1

Spartanburg ...................................................... 147.3 150.5 146.8 151.4 9.3 7.6 9.0 7.6 6.3 5.1 6.1 5.0

Sumter .............................................................. 43.7 43.7 43.8 43.9 3.1 2.8 3.1 2.8 7.2 6.3 7.0 6.4

South Dakota ...................................................... 448.2 456.0 445.3 455.0 14.4 12.4 15.3 14.0 3.2 2.7 3.4 3.1

Rapid City ......................................................... 70.8 71.6 70.3 70.9 2.5 2.1 2.5 2.3 3.5 3.0 3.5 3.2

Sioux Falls ........................................................ 142.5 148.0 142.6 148.9 3.8 3.3 4.2 3.8 2.6 2.2 2.9 2.6

Tennessee ........................................................... 2,993.3 3,057.5 2,973.3 3,078.3 189.9 165.1 181.7 163.7 6.3 5.4 6.1 5.3

Chattanooga ..................................................... 247.2 251.6 246.5 254.5 15.0 13.0 14.5 13.2 6.1 5.2 5.9 5.2

Clarksville ......................................................... 107.8 109.5 107.5 109.7 6.9 6.1 6.5 6.2 6.4 5.6 6.0 5.7

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

November December November December November December

2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p

Tennessee—Continued

Cleveland .......................................................... 55.1 55.3 54.6 55.9 3.4 2.9 3.2 2.9 6.1 5.2 5.8 5.2

Jackson ............................................................ 60.4 61.6 60.1 61.9 4.1 3.6 3.9 3.5 6.8 5.8 6.5 5.7

Johnson City ..................................................... 87.7 89.3 86.9 89.4 5.7 5.1 5.5 5.1 6.5 5.7 6.3 5.8

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol .................................... 137.3 139.3 136.5 139.9 8.3 7.2 8.0 7.1 6.0 5.2 5.9 5.1

Knoxville ........................................................... 399.0 408.8 394.7 412.3 23.1 20.2 22.2 20.2 5.8 4.9 5.6 4.9

Memphis ........................................................... 602.4 614.1 602.2 621.7 43.8 37.2 42.3 38.0 7.3 6.1 7.0 6.1

Morristown ........................................................ 48.9 50.2 48.4 50.5 3.4 2.9 3.3 2.9 7.0 5.8 6.7 5.8

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin .... 901.8 933.8 896.9 939.4 45.4 40.3 42.7 39.1 5.0 4.3 4.8 4.2

Texas ................................................................... 13,202.8 13,100.0 13,152.2 13,077.4 588.6 593.5 540.1 555.2 4.5 4.5 4.1 4.2

Abilene .............................................................. 77.1 75.5 76.7 75.4 2.9 2.9 2.6 2.7 3.7 3.9 3.4 3.5

Amarillo ............................................................. 132.0 128.8 130.7 128.5 4.2 4.1 3.8 3.7 3.2 3.2 2.9 2.9

Austin-Round Rock ........................................... 1,058.4 1,063.8 1,052.1 1,059.4 39.2 35.1 35.4 32.3 3.7 3.3 3.4 3.1

Beaumont-Port Arthur ....................................... 181.9 182.1 181.6 182.0 12.4 12.4 11.8 11.8 6.8 6.8 6.5 6.5

Brownsville-Harlingen ....................................... 166.5 163.5 165.7 163.4 12.2 11.6 11.7 11.2 7.4 7.1 7.1 6.9

College Station-Bryan ....................................... 121.8 119.5 120.2 118.2 4.2 4.2 3.7 3.9 3.4 3.5 3.1 3.3

Corpus Christi ................................................... 214.1 212.9 212.8 211.9 10.3 11.5 9.6 11.1 4.8 5.4 4.5 5.2

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington .............................. 3,595.7 3,595.2 3,590.1 3,591.7 157.0 142.7 142.6 131.2 4.4 4.0 4.0 3.7

El Paso ............................................................. 347.9 341.8 346.0 341.4 20.0 17.8 18.2 16.5 5.7 5.2 5.3 4.8

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land .............. 3,289.8 3,247.7 3,280.2 3,246.3 142.4 158.8 131.4 149.4 4.3 4.9 4.0 4.6

Killeen-Temple .................................................. 171.0 166.2 170.6 166.3 9.0 7.9 8.1 7.3 5.3 4.8 4.8 4.4

Laredo .............................................................. 113.0 112.8 112.5 112.5 4.9 5.4 4.5 5.1 4.3 4.8 4.0 4.5

Longview .......................................................... 106.7 105.7 106.2 105.2 4.5 5.3 4.0 5.1 4.2 5.0 3.8 4.8

Lubbock ............................................................ 154.9 153.0 153.9 152.9 5.3 5.1 4.7 4.7 3.4 3.4 3.0 3.1

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission ................................ 337.0 334.9 336.1 335.6 25.9 26.7 25.4 26.3 7.7 8.0 7.6 7.8

Midland ............................................................. 96.8 96.9 96.6 96.9 2.3 3.4 2.2 3.2 2.4 3.5 2.2 3.3

Odessa ............................................................. 85.4 86.5 85.7 86.3 2.4 4.2 2.4 4.0 2.9 4.8 2.8 4.6

San Angelo ....................................................... 56.3 55.0 55.9 55.2 2.0 2.4 1.8 2.2 3.5 4.3 3.2 4.0

San Antonio-New Braunfels ............................. 1,102.5 1,107.9 1,096.5 1,103.2 44.5 41.8 40.1 38.5 4.0 3.8 3.7 3.5

Sherman-Denison ............................................. 61.1 60.1 60.9 59.8 2.6 2.4 2.4 2.2 4.2 4.0 3.9 3.7

Texarkana ......................................................... 64.7 63.1 64.4 63.1 3.5 3.0 3.4 2.9 5.5 4.8 5.3 4.6

Tyler .................................................................. 103.5 101.4 103.6 101.6 4.7 4.7 4.2 4.5 4.6 4.6 4.1 4.5

Victoria .............................................................. 50.8 50.8 50.7 50.9 1.8 2.2 1.6 2.1 3.5 4.4 3.2 4.0

Waco ................................................................ 118.7 116.8 118.3 116.2 5.3 4.8 4.7 4.4 4.5 4.1 4.0 3.8

Wichita Falls ..................................................... 66.0 63.4 66.0 63.3 2.8 2.9 2.5 2.7 4.3 4.6 3.8 4.3

Utah ...................................................................... 1,441.8 1,463.0 1,441.3 1,457.9 45.2 44.9 45.6 44.5 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.1

Logan ................................................................ 66.4 66.8 66.5 66.8 1.8 1.8 1.7 1.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.6

Ogden-Clearfield .............................................. 302.5 305.7 300.5 303.6 9.8 9.5 9.9 9.6 3.2 3.1 3.3 3.1

Provo-Orem ...................................................... 265.3 273.2 265.2 271.1 7.3 7.3 7.2 6.9 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.5

St. George ........................................................ 61.8 62.2 61.5 61.3 2.3 2.2 2.4 2.2 3.7 3.5 3.8 3.5

Salt Lake City ................................................... 611.2 621.6 609.4 617.2 18.9 17.9 18.8 17.4 3.1 2.9 3.1 2.8

Vermont ............................................................... 348.3 344.0 348.1 341.3 13.6 11.9 13.4 10.7 3.9 3.5 3.8 3.1

Burlington-South Burlington .............................. 124.5 126.8 123.5 125.1 4.0 3.4 3.9 3.0 3.2 2.7 3.2 2.4

Virginia ................................................................ 4,231.2 4,202.5 4,204.1 4,208.7 194.9 166.8 189.6 165.3 4.6 4.0 4.5 3.9

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford ................. 92.1 92.4 92.5 93.4 4.2 3.6 4.2 3.7 4.6 3.9 4.5 3.9

Charlottesville ................................................... 118.3 116.9 116.1 115.7 4.6 3.9 4.4 3.9 3.9 3.3 3.8 3.3

Harrisonburg ..................................................... 64.3 63.8 64.2 64.0 2.8 2.5 2.8 2.5 4.4 3.9 4.4 3.9

Lynchburg ......................................................... 123.7 121.5 123.0 121.4 6.0 5.2 5.9 5.3 4.9 4.3 4.8 4.3

Richmond ......................................................... 654.9 647.1 651.9 648.5 32.0 27.3 30.8 26.7 4.9 4.2 4.7 4.1

Roanoke ........................................................... 160.2 157.1 159.7 157.6 7.3 6.1 7.1 6.1 4.6 3.9 4.5 3.8

Staunton-Waynesboro ...................................... 58.6 57.1 58.0 57.2 2.6 2.2 2.6 2.2 4.4 3.9 4.5 3.9

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News ............. 834.4 828.2 829.7 830.6 43.1 37.7 41.8 37.6 5.2 4.6 5.0 4.5

Winchester ........................................................ 68.4 68.8 67.9 68.9 2.9 2.5 2.9 2.5 4.2 3.6 4.3 3.6

Washington ......................................................... 3,511.2 3,527.5 3,510.9 3,544.0 216.8 190.2 221.3 207.5 6.2 5.4 6.3 5.9

Bellingham ........................................................ 103.6 104.4 104.3 105.5 6.6 5.6 6.9 6.2 6.4 5.3 6.6 5.9

Bremerton-Silverdale ........................................ 115.1 114.1 115.6 115.9 7.2 5.7 7.3 6.3 6.2 5.0 6.3 5.5

Kennewick-Richland ......................................... 129.5 128.2 127.3 127.6 10.4 8.4 11.7 9.9 8.0 6.5 9.2 7.8

Longview .......................................................... 44.8 44.3 45.1 44.9 3.7 3.0 3.8 3.4 8.2 6.9 8.5 7.5

Mount Vernon-Anacortes .................................. 57.3 56.2 57.1 56.3 4.2 3.5 4.4 3.9 7.3 6.3 7.7 7.0

Olympia-Tumwater ........................................... 125.6 126.3 126.6 127.5 8.3 6.8 8.5 7.5 6.6 5.4 6.7 5.9

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue ................................. 1,945.1 1,960.1 1,950.0 1,972.6 100.2 95.3 95.1 97.8 5.2 4.9 4.9 5.0

Spokane-Spokane Valley ................................. 252.4 254.2 254.0 256.4 18.1 14.6 20.1 17.2 7.2 5.7 7.9 6.7

Walla Walla ....................................................... 31.3 30.2 29.5 29.1 1.9 1.5 2.1 1.9 6.0 5.1 7.2 6.4

Wenatchee ....................................................... 58.7 59.6 58.2 58.5 4.1 3.4 4.6 4.0 6.9 5.7 7.9 6.8

Yakima .............................................................. 117.0 118.2 116.0 117.2 11.0 9.5 13.5 12.0 9.4 8.0 11.6 10.2

West Virginia ....................................................... 777.3 785.3 767.4 779.6 43.6 44.2 42.8 45.8 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.9

Beckley ............................................................. 46.4 46.9 45.7 46.7 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.3 7.0 6.9 6.6 7.2

Charleston ........................................................ 98.1 98.9 97.1 98.2 5.5 5.5 5.3 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.5 5.7

Huntington-Ashland .......................................... 148.4 148.1 147.0 147.8 8.3 7.9 8.0 8.5 5.6 5.3 5.5 5.7

Morgantown ...................................................... 64.5 65.2 63.4 64.4 2.5 2.7 2.4 2.7 3.8 4.1 3.8 4.3

Parkersburg-Vienna .......................................... 40.0 40.4 39.4 40.1 2.1 2.2 2.1 2.3 5.2 5.4 5.2 5.6

Wheeling ........................................................... 66.8 66.8 66.3 66.5 3.6 3.9 3.6 4.2 5.4 5.9 5.4 6.3

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

November December November December November December

2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p

Wisconsin ............................................................ 3,108.8 3,104.6 3,096.5 3,103.0 146.3 124.0 146.4 131.8 4.7 4.0 4.7 4.2

Appleton ........................................................... 129.3 131.3 129.4 132.2 5.1 4.4 5.2 4.7 4.0 3.3 4.0 3.6

Eau Claire ......................................................... 92.9 92.1 92.2 92.2 3.7 3.2 4.0 3.7 4.0 3.5 4.3 4.1

Fond du Lac ...................................................... 58.0 57.8 57.7 57.5 2.4 2.0 2.4 2.1 4.1 3.4 4.2 3.6

Green Bay ........................................................ 172.0 173.7 171.8 174.0 7.3 6.3 7.4 6.7 4.3 3.6 4.3 3.8

Janesville-Beloit ................................................ 84.2 84.6 84.3 84.6 4.4 3.7 4.4 3.9 5.2 4.4 5.2 4.6

La Crosse-Onalaska ......................................... 77.8 77.7 77.8 77.9 2.8 2.7 2.9 2.9 3.6 3.5 3.7 3.7

Madison ............................................................ 377.8 382.1 376.6 379.9 12.9 11.3 12.4 11.6 3.4 3.0 3.3 3.1

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis ..................... 829.5 823.7 823.4 819.6 43.8 36.4 41.4 36.5 5.3 4.4 5.0 4.5

Oshkosh-Neenah .............................................. 92.9 93.1 92.4 93.5 4.2 3.4 4.1 3.5 4.5 3.7 4.4 3.8

Racine .............................................................. 99.7 97.9 99.4 98.0 5.7 4.8 5.8 5.0 5.8 4.9 5.8 5.1

Sheboygan ....................................................... 61.5 61.9 61.4 62.3 2.4 2.1 2.3 2.1 3.9 3.3 3.7 3.4

Wausau ............................................................ 73.5 73.9 73.8 74.5 3.1 2.6 3.0 2.8 4.2 3.5 4.1 3.7

Wyoming ............................................................. 307.3 305.2 304.7 300.8 13.7 13.4 12.8 13.7 4.5 4.4 4.2 4.5

Casper .............................................................. 43.7 43.1 43.3 42.4 1.8 2.2 1.7 2.3 4.2 5.1 3.9 5.5

Cheyenne ......................................................... 49.3 49.3 49.4 48.5 2.3 1.9 2.2 1.9 4.7 3.8 4.5 4.0

Puerto Rico ......................................................... 1,142.7 1,145.0 1,140.4 1,157.5 154.7 134.4 137.7 119.9 13.5 11.7 12.1 10.4

Aguadilla-Isabela .............................................. 91.0 90.9 89.8 91.6 16.0 13.7 14.1 12.3 17.6 15.1 15.7 13.4

Arecibo ............................................................. 54.1 54.1 53.8 54.8 8.8 7.7 7.9 6.9 16.2 14.2 14.6 12.6

Guayama .......................................................... 22.8 21.9 22.5 21.9 5.0 4.1 4.5 3.6 21.9 18.5 19.8 16.6

Mayaguez ......................................................... 30.2 29.9 30.0 30.2 4.5 3.7 4.0 3.3 15.1 12.4 13.5 10.8

Ponce ............................................................... 100.6 100.3 100.7 101.8 17.5 15.9 15.8 14.4 17.4 15.9 15.7 14.2

San German ..................................................... 37.5 36.9 37.2 37.4 6.2 5.0 5.5 4.6 16.5 13.6 14.8 12.2

San Juan-Carolina-Caguas .............................. 759.8 763.8 760.4 771.8 86.7 75.9 77.2 67.5 11.4 9.9 10.2 8.7

1 For operational reasons, these interstate areas are listed under the state that

accounts for the larger share of the population, different from the one that contains

the first principal city. 2 The area boundary does not reflect the Office of Management and Budget

delineation. p = preliminary.

 NOTE: Data refer to place of residence. Data for Puerto Rico are derived from a

monthly household survey similar to the Current Population Survey. Area

delineations are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 13-01,

dated February 28, 2013, and are available on the BLS website at

www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Areas in the six New England states are

Metropolitan New England City and Town Areas (NECTAs), while areas in other

states are county-based. Some metropolitan areas lie in two or more states. They

are listed under the state containing the first principal city, unless otherwise

footnoted. Estimates for the latest month are subject to revision the following

month.
LABOR FORCE DATA LABOR FORCE DATA

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

November December November December November December

2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p 2014 2015 2014 2015p

California .............................................................. 18,941.1 18,987.7 18,855.7 18,934.5 1,341.2 1,074.2 1,277.5 1,091.6 7.1 5.7 6.8 5.8

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim ...................... 6,662.5 6,596.7 6,632.0 6,579.6 482.6 352.9 453.6 355.4 7.2 5.3 6.8 5.4

 Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine ................................ 1,592.6 1,604.8 1,585.0 1,602.1 82.6 67.0 74.0 65.1 5.2 4.2 4.7 4.1

 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale ................... 5,069.9 4,991.8 5,047.0 4,977.5 400.0 285.9 379.6 290.4 7.9 5.7 7.5 5.8

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward ......................... 2,484.3 2,516.2 2,479.3 2,515.4 121.2 98.6 110.0 97.1 4.9 3.9 4.4 3.9

 Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley ............................... 1,366.5 1,371.4 1,362.0 1,371.4 76.3 61.5 69.7 60.6 5.6 4.5 5.1 4.4

 San Francisco-Redwood CitySouth San Francisco ...................................... 976.7 1,000.5 977.4 999.5 39.1 32.4 35.2 31.9 4.0 3.2 3.6 3.2

 San Rafael ......................................................... 141.2 144.2 140.0 144.5 5.7 4.7 5.1 4.6 4.1 3.2 3.6 3.2

District of Columbia .......................................... 384.2 390.9 382.0 388.7 29.3 26.3 28.4 24.6 7.6 6.7 7.4 6.3

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 2 ...................... 3,263.5 3,298.8 3,239.8 3,291.1 150.5 135.7 143.4 126.1 4.6 4.1 4.4 3.8

 Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville 3 .................... 666.8 683.7 662.8 680.5 28.2 27.2 26.2 23.4 4.2 4.0 3.9 3.4

 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 2 ................... 2,596.6 2,615.1 2,577.0 2,610.6 122.4 108.5 117.3 102.7 4.7 4.2 4.6 3.9

Florida .................................................................... 9,661.9 9,626.1 9,607.7 9,629.6 553.1 468.5 516.9 456.9 5.7 4.9 5.4 4.7

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach ............ 3,022.0 3,017.7 3,003.7 3,021.1 167.8 151.2 160.2 151.0 5.6 5.0 5.3 5.0

 Fort Lauderdale-Pompano 

 Beach-Deerfield Beach .................................. 999.8 999.0 995.6 999.6 54.0 44.9 49.9 43.3 5.4 4.5 5.0 4.3

 Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall .............................. 1,330.8 1,329.8 1,322.9 1,333.6 77.9 74.3 77.6 76.9 5.8 5.6 5.9 5.8

 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach ... 691.4 688.9 685.3 687.9 36.0 32.1 32.8 30.9 5.2 4.7 4.8 4.5

Illinois .................................................................... 6,528.3 6,550.8 6,491.4 6,536.2 389.4 379.6 373.8 388.5 6.0 5.8 5.8 5.9

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin 2 ................................... 4,906.5 4,880.2 4,883.8 4,890.9 290.5 262.3 280.3 280.2 5.9 5.4 5.7 5.7

 Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights ................ 3,791.8 3,752.6 3,777.3 3,770.1 221.4 196.7 210.3 212.2 5.8 5.2 5.6 5.6

 Elgin .................................................................. 319.5 331.4 316.8 326.7 18.9 20.1 18.9 20.1 5.9 6.1 6.0 6.2

 Gary 3 ................................................................ 341.8 339.1 339.4 341.2 25.2 19.7 25.4 21.5 7.4 5.8 7.5 6.3

 Lake County-Kenosha County 2 ........................ 453.4 457.1 450.2 453.0 25.1 25.8 25.7 26.3 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8

Massachusetts ................................................... 3,587.9 3,550.8 3,576.9 3,545.0 179.3 161.2 176.0 164.4 5.0 4.5 4.9 4.6

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua 2 ............................... 2,638.4 2,615.5 2,627.9 2,607.4 120.2 107.8 115.5 107.0 4.6 4.1 4.4 4.1

 Boston-Cambridge-Newton ............................... 1,559.9 1,548.5 1,552.2 1,542.5 67.1 60.8 63.6 59.8 4.3 3.9 4.1 3.9

 Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton ............................ 106.4 105.4 106.0 105.3 5.9 5.3 5.7 5.4 5.5 5.0 5.4 5.1

 Framingham ...................................................... 156.0 154.3 155.2 154.1 6.1 5.5 6.0 5.7 3.9 3.6 3.9 3.7

 Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town 2 ......... 111.2 111.1 110.8 110.5 5.4 4.6 5.3 4.6 4.8 4.2 4.8 4.1

 Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem 2 .................... 94.7 94.2 94.6 93.9 6.5 5.8 6.3 5.8 6.9 6.1 6.7 6.2

 Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford 2 ............................ 183.9 181.7 183.7 181.3 9.3 8.5 9.0 8.5 5.0 4.7 4.9 4.7

 Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead ................................ 84.0 83.2 83.8 83.2 4.2 3.8 4.0 3.8 5.0 4.6 4.8 4.6

 Nashua 2 ........................................................... 168.3 165.8 168.0 165.4 7.1 5.8 7.0 5.4 4.2 3.5 4.2 3.2

 Peabody-Salem-Beverly .................................... 91.3 90.0 90.9 90.0 4.2 3.8 4.1 3.8 4.6 4.2 4.5 4.2

 Taunton-Middleborough-Norton ........................ 82.8 81.3 82.7 81.2 4.3 3.9 4.3 4.2 5.2 4.8 5.2 5.1

Michigan ............................................................... 4,738.1 4,760.4 4,711.6 4,760.3 273.0 214.1 263.6 214.7 5.8 4.5 5.6 4.5

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn ...................................... 2,011.3 2,002.4 2,003.3 2,005.0 138.9 104.7 129.4 108.6 6.9 5.2 6.5 5.4

 Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia ................................... 760.0 752.8 758.0 752.9 62.6 46.8 57.6 48.0 8.2 6.2 7.6 6.4

 Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills ........................... 1,251.3 1,249.6 1,245.3 1,252.1 76.3 58.0 71.8 60.6 6.1 4.6 5.8 4.8

New York .............................................................. 9,530.2 9,689.0 9,471.7 9,737.1 546.0 454.6 525.9 455.1 5.7 4.7 5.6 4.7

New York-Newark-Jersey City 2 ........................... 9,938.7 10,092.2 9,899.2 10,136.3 572.6 471.8 547.5 450.5 5.8 4.7 5.5 4.4

 Dutchess County-Putnam County .................... 190.5 190.0 188.4 190.8 8.8 7.8 8.5 7.6 4.6 4.1 4.5 4.0

 Nassau County-Suffolk County ......................... 1,437.4 1,473.3 1,429.7 1,482.1 65.8 59.8 62.9 58.1 4.6 4.1 4.4 3.9

 Newark 3 ............................................................ 1,267.1 1,274.6 1,263.4 1,278.7 70.9 61.1 69.6 53.9 5.6 4.8 5.5 4.2

 New York-Jersey City-White Plains 2 ................ 7,043.7 7,154.4 7,017.6 7,184.7 427.2 343.2 406.5 330.9 6.1 4.8 5.8 4.6

Pennsylvania ....................................................... 6,358.2 6,419.0 6,322.6 6,427.8 310.7 283.1 291.4 263.6 4.9 4.4 4.6 4.1

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 2 ..................... 3,029.1 3,061.8 3,016.2 3,066.2 160.4 140.3 149.2 126.1 5.3 4.6 4.9 4.1

 Camden 3 .......................................................... 639.6 642.4 639.3 643.4 39.7 32.9 38.9 29.0 6.2 5.1 6.1 4.5

 Montgomery County-Bucks 

 County-Chester County ................................ 1,038.3 1,051.6 1,033.7 1,055.6 41.4 36.8 37.5 32.9 4.0 3.5 3.6 3.1

 Philadelphia ....................................................... 979.3 985.1 971.0 983.0 60.8 52.6 55.0 47.4 6.2 5.3 5.7 4.8

 Wilmington 3 ...................................................... 371.9 382.7 372.3 384.2 18.4 17.9 17.9 16.9 5.0 4.7 4.8 4.4

Texas ...................................................................... 13,202.8 13,100.0 13,152.2 13,077.4 588.6 593.5 540.1 555.2 4.5 4.5 4.1 4.2

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington .................................. 3,595.7 3,595.2 3,590.1 3,591.7 157.0 142.7 142.6 131.2 4.4 4.0 4.0 3.7

 Dallas-Plano-Irving ............................................ 2,395.5 2,409.1 2,392.1 2,403.4 104.6 93.6 95.1 86.1 4.4 3.9 4.0 3.6

 Fort Worth-Arlington .......................................... 1,200.2 1,186.1 1,198.0 1,188.2 52.4 49.1 47.5 45.2 4.4 4.1 4.0 3.8

Washington ......................................................... 3,511.2 3,527.5 3,510.9 3,544.0 216.8 190.2 221.3 207.5 6.2 5.4 6.3 5.9

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue ..................................... 1,945.1 1,960.1 1,950.0 1,972.6 100.2 95.3 95.1 97.8 5.2 4.9 4.9 5.0

 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett .................................... 1,554.5 1,563.2 1,556.4 1,571.8 72.1 72.8 66.6 73.3 4.6 4.7 4.3 4.7

 Tacoma-Lakewood ............................................ 390.6 396.8 393.6 400.9 28.1 22.6 28.5 24.6 7.2 5.7 7.2 6.1

1 These 11 areas contain all of the 38 metropolitan divisions. 2 Part of the area (or division) is in one or more adjacent states. 3 All of the division is in one or more adjacent states. p = preliminary. 

 NOTE: Data refer to place of residence. Area delineations are based on Office of Management

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

www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New England

City and Town Areas (NECTAs), while areas in other states are county-based. Some metropolitan

areas lie in two or more states. They are listed under the state containing the first principal city.

Metropolitan divisions are listed under their metropolitan areas. Some divisions lie in more than

one state, and some, like Camden, N.J., are totally outside the states under which their

metropolitan areas are listed. For Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va., the

metropolitan area and division titles are identical. Estimates for the latest month are subject to

revision the following month.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2014 to December

2015p

2014 2015 2014 2015p Number Percent

Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,950.8 1,975.0 1,948.2 1,968.8 20.6 1.1

Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.3 46.5 46.5 46.6 0.1 0.2

Auburn-Opelika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.1 62.2 61.1 61.8 0.7 1.1

Birmingham-Hoover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517.1 525.4 519.0 524.4 5.4 1.0

Daphne-Fairhope-Foley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.1 69.2 67.0 69.0 2.0 3.0

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.9 54.3 54.1 54.4 0.3 0.6

Dothan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.3 57.8 57.7 58.0 0.3 0.5

Florence-Muscle Shoals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.3 56.3 57.4 56.1 -1.3 -2.3

Gadsden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.9 38.0 37.7 37.7 0.0 0.0

Huntsville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219.7 221.4 218.5 221.3 2.8 1.3

Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.4 176.8 175.4 176.5 1.1 0.6

Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170.3 171.5 171.1 172.0 0.9 0.5

Tuscaloosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.6 107.6 104.5 107.0 2.5 2.4

Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325.4 324.9 324.9 325.0 0.1 0.0

Anchorage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178.4 178.9 178.9 180.2 1.3 0.7

Fairbanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.0 38.2 37.8 37.5 -0.3 -0.8

Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,632.6 2,702.1 2,643.8 2,709.5 65.7 2.5

Flagstaff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.3 65.8 64.1 64.6 0.5 0.8

Lake Havasu City-Kingman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.5 46.0 46.9 46.2 -0.7 -1.5

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,906.4 1,960.9 1,912.5 1,967.8 55.3 2.9

Prescott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.5 62.6 60.7 61.7 1.0 1.6

Sierra Vista-Douglas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.0 34.7 35.0 34.6 -0.4 -1.1

Tucson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370.7 381.5 373.2 382.1 8.9 2.4

Yuma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.4 52.6 53.4 53.2 -0.2 -0.4

Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,209.3 1,225.3 1,208.4 1,227.9 19.5 1.6

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229.0 233.7 229.3 234.1 4.8 2.1

Fort Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.7 112.7 113.8 112.6 -1.2 -1.1

Hot Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.8 38.4 38.0 38.6 0.6 1.6

Jonesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.9 56.7 54.8 56.5 1.7 3.1

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348.8 355.2 350.1 353.9 3.8 1.1

Pine Bluff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.5 32.0 34.3 31.9 -2.4 -7.0

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,995.2 16,419.5 15,994.3 16,458.5 464.2 2.9

Bakersfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264.1 264.7 263.8 266.1 2.3 0.9

Chico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.3 79.6 77.3 79.3 2.0 2.6

El Centro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.8 56.5 55.5 56.6 1.1 2.0

Fresno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320.8 329.0 320.9 327.3 6.4 2.0

Hanford-Corcoran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.8 38.1 37.8 38.0 0.2 0.5

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,844.8 5,958.9 5,853.1 5,988.2 135.1 2.3

Madera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.6 36.9 36.5 37.1 0.6 1.6

Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.4 64.6 65.2 63.7 -1.5 -2.3

Modesto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163.2 167.9 163.9 168.0 4.1 2.5

Napa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.0 72.0 69.5 70.7 1.2 1.7

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295.8 304.5 297.6 303.8 6.2 2.1

Redding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.6 64.8 63.3 64.5 1.2 1.9

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,321.2 1,365.4 1,324.5 1,372.3 47.8 3.6

Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904.7 926.7 904.5 927.4 22.9 2.5

Salinas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.0 137.9 132.8 137.3 4.5 3.4

San Diego-Carlsbad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,377.9 1,415.7 1,378.4 1,415.9 37.5 2.7

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,237.0 2,301.6 2,244.2 2,310.5 66.3 3.0

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,029.7 1,081.8 1,037.2 1,083.3 46.1 4.4

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.6 117.0 110.0 114.5 4.5 4.1

Santa Cruz-Watsonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.8 96.6 94.9 94.2 -0.7 -0.7

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.8 186.5 180.4 186.1 5.7 3.2

Santa Rosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195.1 199.5 194.0 199.8 5.8 3.0

Stockton-Lodi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.7 219.2 213.2 219.9 6.7 3.1

Vallejo-Fairfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.0 135.4 130.9 135.5 4.6 3.5

Visalia-Porterville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.6 119.1 116.7 119.2 2.5 2.1

Yuba City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.9 41.2 40.7 41.1 0.4 1.0

Colorado. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,493.0 2,537.0 2,511.8 2,559.0 47.2 1.9

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

November December

Change from

December 2014 to December

2015p

2014 2015 2014 2015p Number Percent

Colorado - Continued

Boulder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.4 181.7 179.2 180.5 1.3 0.7

Colorado Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266.3 266.8 265.0 267.1 2.1 0.8

Denver-Aurora-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,368.9 1,398.8 1,374.0 1,398.2 24.2 1.8

Fort Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.1 154.7 149.7 155.1 5.4 3.6

Grand Junction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.5 62.7 62.5 62.1 -0.4 -0.6

Greeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.0 105.9 102.1 105.9 3.8 3.7

Pueblo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.9 61.5 61.3 61.2 -0.1 -0.2

Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,694.2 1,722.3 1,699.7 1,722.9 23.2 1.4

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412.7 420.9 413.9 420.5 6.6 1.6

Danbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.6 79.7 80.6 80.1 -0.5 -0.6

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575.2 584.9 576.3 582.2 5.9 1.0

New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284.3 286.7 284.6 287.1 2.5 0.9

Norwich-New London-Westerly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.7 128.5 128.7 128.0 -0.7 -0.5

Waterbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.8 68.9 69.2 69.2 0.0 0.0

Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445.7 451.3 446.2 453.5 7.3 1.6

Dover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.5 67.8 68.5 68.0 -0.5 -0.7

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.8 150.3 143.9 150.3 6.4 4.4

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767.8 775.5 764.0 774.6 10.6 1.4

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,158.7 3,220.5 3,156.3 3,224.8 68.5 2.2

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,010.3 8,243.5 8,049.4 8,284.6 235.2 2.9

Cape Coral-Fort Myers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238.1 245.3 239.4 247.5 8.1 3.4

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.7 105.3 104.1 104.1 0.0 0.0

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184.1 189.7 184.9 190.2 5.3 2.9

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.0 138.3 135.5 137.0 1.5 1.1

Homosassa Springs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.6 32.7 32.6 32.7 0.1 0.3

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633.9 649.7 639.5 656.8 17.3 2.7

Lakeland-Winter Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205.2 213.1 206.1 214.8 8.7 4.2

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,488.0 2,543.7 2,500.3 2,555.6 55.3 2.2

Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.7 138.6 137.2 140.3 3.1 2.3

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276.5 282.1 279.0 283.4 4.4 1.6

Ocala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.3 99.9 99.0 99.9 0.9 0.9

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,139.4 1,179.1 1,145.2 1,183.3 38.1 3.3

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198.9 204.8 201.0 205.3 4.3 2.1

Panama City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.9 78.5 78.7 78.5 -0.2 -0.3

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166.8 169.9 167.5 169.8 2.3 1.4

Port St. Lucie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135.1 138.9 136.0 139.1 3.1 2.3

Punta Gorda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.4 45.7 44.9 46.2 1.3 2.9

Sebastian-Vero Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.2 48.7 48.7 48.9 0.2 0.4

Sebring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.7 26.0 26.1 26.3 0.2 0.8

Tallahassee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176.9 177.3 177.1 177.8 0.7 0.4

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,227.4 1,266.1 1,233.0 1,271.8 38.8 3.1

The Villages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.0 26.5 26.2 26.7 0.5 1.9

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,249.5 4,348.2 4,249.2 4,341.3 92.1 2.2

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.0 61.1 61.8 60.8 -1.0 -1.6

Athens-Clarke County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.1 95.3 93.7 95.2 1.5 1.6

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,559.5 2,647.9 2,566.7 2,644.5 77.8 3.0

Augusta-Richmond County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229.0 231.8 229.4 232.6 3.2 1.4

Brunswick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.8 42.0 41.9 41.9 0.0 0.0

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.0 126.2 123.6 126.4 2.8 2.3

Dalton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.6 68.5 67.7 68.5 0.8 1.2

Gainesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.4 83.5 82.3 83.3 1.0 1.2

Hinesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.0 19.9 19.9 19.7 -0.2 -1.0

Macon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.6 102.9 103.4 102.9 -0.5 -0.5

Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.6 41.1 40.5 41.1 0.6 1.5

Savannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169.9 174.3 168.3 175.2 6.9 4.1

Valdosta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.0 55.0 55.7 54.6 -1.1 -2.0

Warner Robins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.0 70.1 71.0 69.9 -1.1 -1.5

Hawaii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632.8 645.6 635.2 650.9 15.7 2.5

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2014 to December

2015p

2014 2015 2014 2015p Number Percent

Hawaii - Continued

Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.0 73.1 72.7 73.8 1.1 1.5

Urban Honolulu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468.8 479.4 471.4 482.6 11.2 2.4

Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663.4 689.6 659.2 688.0 28.8 4.4

Boise City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285.9 291.7 285.5 291.8 6.3 2.2

Coeur d’Alene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.0 61.5 58.5 61.1 2.6 4.4

Idaho Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.6 63.4 60.5 63.2 2.7 4.5

Lewiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.1 28.2 27.5 28.1 0.6 2.2

Pocatello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.7 36.9 35.5 36.6 1.1 3.1

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,953.9 5,982.6 5,951.3 5,949.7 -1.6 0.0

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.5 96.4 95.0 95.1 0.1 0.1

Carbondale-Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.1 55.1 55.2 54.5 -0.7 -1.3

Champaign-Urbana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110.1 111.6 109.7 110.6 0.9 0.8

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,566.8 4,609.3 4,563.5 4,591.0 27.5 0.6

Danville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.4 29.9 29.5 29.7 0.2 0.7

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184.6 181.6 184.0 179.5 -4.5 -2.4

Decatur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.6 51.2 51.2 50.3 -0.9 -1.8

Kankakee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.1 45.9 45.7 45.7 0.0 0.0

Peoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.1 179.6 178.4 178.7 0.3 0.2

Rockford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.6 152.6 152.3 152.0 -0.3 -0.2

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.1 113.6 112.4 112.9 0.5 0.4

Indiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,039.9 3,102.1 3,033.3 3,091.0 57.7 1.9

Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.3 79.0 77.4 77.8 0.4 0.5

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.9 53.8 52.4 54.1 1.7 3.2

Elkhart-Goshen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.9 130.0 124.8 129.7 4.9 3.9

Evansville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159.2 162.1 158.9 160.7 1.8 1.1

Fort Wayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215.6 218.5 214.8 217.6 2.8 1.3

Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,014.9 1,043.5 1,015.9 1,043.3 27.4 2.7

Kokomo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.8 41.9 41.1 42.1 1.0 2.4

Lafayette-West Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.5 104.5 103.4 104.2 0.8 0.8

Michigan City-La Porte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.4 42.1 42.3 42.0 -0.3 -0.7

Muncie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.5 52.6 51.4 52.5 1.1 2.1

South Bend-Mishawaka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.3 139.5 139.1 138.9 -0.2 -0.1

Terre Haute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.7 71.1 71.5 71.3 -0.2 -0.3

Iowa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,578.1 1,604.2 1,564.8 1,590.1 25.3 1.6

Ames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.1 55.5 54.2 54.4 0.2 0.4

Cedar Rapids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.4 144.4 141.3 143.3 2.0 1.4

Des Moines-West Des Moines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348.5 359.2 347.3 357.3 10.0 2.9

Dubuque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.0 60.6 60.8 60.6 -0.2 -0.3

Iowa City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.4 101.4 99.0 100.6 1.6 1.6

Sioux City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.7 90.0 88.8 89.3 0.5 0.6

Waterloo-Cedar Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.1 94.2 93.3 92.8 -0.5 -0.5

Kansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,414.6 1,422.4 1,412.0 1,418.8 6.8 0.5

Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.6 55.2 53.5 54.3 0.8 1.5

Manhattan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.5 47.3 44.7 45.9 1.2 2.7

Topeka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.7 113.0 112.0 112.4 0.4 0.4

Wichita. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297.0 299.5 295.4 298.6 3.2 1.1

Kentucky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,895.6 1,931.6 1,892.9 1,933.4 40.5 2.1

Bowling Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.9 74.5 73.5 74.9 1.4 1.9

Elizabethtown-Fort Knox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.7 55.8 54.7 55.5 0.8 1.5

Lexington-Fayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270.6 277.6 270.2 278.1 7.9 2.9

Louisville/Jefferson County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645.8 661.0 646.7 662.1 15.4 2.4

Owensboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.9 53.6 53.4 53.9 0.5 0.9

Louisiana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,008.9 1,997.2 2,010.2 1,992.3 -17.9 -0.9

Alexandria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.4 63.6 64.7 63.7 -1.0 -1.5

Baton Rouge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402.9 411.3 401.6 410.4 8.8 2.2

Hammond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.0 45.0 45.1 44.8 -0.3 -0.7

Houma-Thibodaux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.2 99.4 102.6 99.0 -3.6 -3.5

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2014 to December

2015p

2014 2015 2014 2015p Number Percent

Louisiana - Continued

Lafayette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223.3 218.1 222.9 217.4 -5.5 -2.5

Lake Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.5 104.4 102.0 104.3 2.3 2.3

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.0 78.0 79.2 78.0 -1.2 -1.5

New Orleans-Metairie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568.5 566.6 569.5 568.6 -0.9 -0.2

Shreveport-Bossier City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184.5 182.5 184.5 181.5 -3.0 -1.6

Maine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607.8 614.8 604.5 612.7 8.2 1.4

Bangor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.2 68.1 67.2 67.7 0.5 0.7

Lewiston-Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.1 51.3 51.1 51.0 -0.1 -0.2

Portland-South Portland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196.6 199.9 195.6 199.5 3.9 2.0

Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,654.0 2,703.6 2,655.8 2,710.9 55.1 2.1

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,364.9 1,393.4 1,368.4 1,399.4 31.0 2.3

California-Lexington Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.5 45.6 44.6 45.6 1.0 2.2

Cumberland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.4 40.2 40.2 40.2 0.0 0.0

Hagerstown-Martinsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.0 103.4 104.5 103.8 -0.7 -0.7

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,463.5 3,539.7 3,462.8 3,537.5 74.7 2.2

Barnstable Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 102.0 98.4 101.1 2.7 2.7

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,628.1 2,675.5 2,629.8 2,675.6 45.8 1.7

Leominster-Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.8 51.2 50.9 51.3 0.4 0.8

New Bedford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.6 67.4 67.1 67.6 0.5 0.7

Pittsfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.8 42.1 41.7 42.1 0.4 1.0

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327.5 334.1 327.3 333.6 6.3 1.9

Worcester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278.7 284.9 279.3 284.8 5.5 2.0

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,253.9 4,334.4 4,237.5 4,318.8 81.3 1.9

Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214.8 217.6 213.0 217.7 4.7 2.2

Battle Creek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.4 60.1 59.1 59.8 0.7 1.2

Bay City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.6 37.7 37.5 37.6 0.1 0.3

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,931.4 1,968.2 1,928.5 1,968.1 39.6 2.1

Flint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.1 143.5 143.4 143.1 -0.3 -0.2

Grand Rapids-Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524.8 543.7 522.8 542.6 19.8 3.8

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.3 56.7 56.1 56.5 0.4 0.7

Kalamazoo-Portage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.9 146.4 141.5 146.2 4.7 3.3

Lansing-East Lansing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229.0 231.2 226.2 228.7 2.5 1.1

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.0 38.5 37.9 38.4 0.5 1.3

Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.1 43.4 42.1 42.8 0.7 1.7

Muskegon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.5 65.0 63.2 64.8 1.6 2.5

Niles-Benton Harbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.9 62.7 60.5 62.4 1.9 3.1

Saginaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.9 91.4 89.6 91.5 1.9 2.1

Minnesota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,848.4 2,882.7 2,829.6 2,872.1 42.5 1.5

Duluth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135.7 136.8 135.0 135.8 0.8 0.6

Mankato-North Mankato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.3 56.5 56.4 56.4 0.0 0.0

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,922.5 1,954.3 1,913.6 1,947.6 34.0 1.8

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.7 115.8 115.5 115.2 -0.3 -0.3

St. Cloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.1 107.5 107.9 107.5 -0.4 -0.4

Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,129.4 1,140.4 1,129.3 1,139.8 10.5 0.9

Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.4 152.1 152.2 152.9 0.7 0.5

Hattiesburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.5 62.3 63.1 62.4 -0.7 -1.1

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273.6 277.1 275.0 277.5 2.5 0.9

Missouri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,762.4 2,793.1 2,760.1 2,786.7 26.6 1.0

Cape Girardeau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.3 43.7 45.1 43.4 -1.7 -3.8

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.3 102.2 100.3 101.9 1.6 1.6

Jefferson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.7 76.1 76.3 75.7 -0.6 -0.8

Joplin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.7 83.2 81.6 83.3 1.7 2.1

Kansas City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,033.8 1,046.9 1,040.0 1,042.7 2.7 0.3

St. Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.4 62.5 63.5 62.4 -1.1 -1.7

St. Louis2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,325.6 1,337.4 1,325.7 1,341.2 15.5 1.2

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206.3 211.2 206.2 211.6 5.4 2.6

Montana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454.0 456.8 452.6 455.2 2.6 0.6

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

November December

Change from

December 2014 to December

2015p

2014 2015 2014 2015p Number Percent

Montana - Continued

Billings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.0 85.5 83.7 85.6 1.9 2.3

Great Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.0 35.2 35.9 35.0 -0.9 -2.5

Missoula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.4 59.2 57.8 58.3 0.5 0.9

Nebraska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,002.9 1,018.4 1,000.2 1,014.6 14.4 1.4

Grand Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.3 42.8 43.2 43.0 -0.2 -0.5

Lincoln. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187.5 192.0 187.1 191.4 4.3 2.3

Omaha-Council Bluffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488.9 499.3 488.8 497.7 8.9 1.8

Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,238.8 1,269.5 1,240.3 1,265.6 25.3 2.0

Carson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.0 28.0 28.0 28.0 0.0 0.0

Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901.9 924.8 901.2 919.4 18.2 2.0

Reno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206.0 211.3 206.1 212.4 6.3 3.1

New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653.9 659.8 657.5 660.9 3.4 0.5

Dover-Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.5 53.6 53.9 53.9 0.0 0.0

Manchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.6 110.8 109.6 110.5 0.9 0.8

Portsmouth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.8 86.0 84.2 86.2 2.0 2.4

New Jersey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,015.1 4,066.9 4,014.3 4,079.6 65.3 1.6

Atlantic City-Hammonton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.2 132.1 132.3 131.2 -1.1 -0.8

Ocean City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.5 36.8 37.2 36.5 -0.7 -1.9

Trenton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254.7 262.0 255.3 263.1 7.8 3.1

Vineland-Bridgeton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.9 56.6 57.0 57.1 0.1 0.2

New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834.6 837.6 833.2 835.8 2.6 0.3

Albuquerque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383.2 390.5 383.1 388.1 5.0 1.3

Farmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.9 52.9 53.8 52.8 -1.0 -1.9

Las Cruces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.2 71.0 72.1 71.0 -1.1 -1.5

Santa Fe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.1 61.9 62.2 62.1 -0.1 -0.2

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,236.7 9,406.3 9,242.8 9,403.1 160.3 1.7

Albany-Schenectady-Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461.9 467.6 461.8 465.2 3.4 0.7

Binghamton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107.5 105.9 107.0 105.2 -1.8 -1.7

Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563.4 569.4 561.6 567.7 6.1 1.1

Elmira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.7 39.6 39.9 39.8 -0.1 -0.3

Glens Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.0 54.8 53.9 54.3 0.4 0.7

Ithaca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.7 71.5 72.2 71.2 -1.0 -1.4

Kingston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.7 61.9 61.6 61.8 0.2 0.3

New York-Newark-Jersey City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,293.0 9,453.4 9,312.8 9,469.2 156.4 1.7

Rochester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533.8 538.6 533.1 537.7 4.6 0.9

Syracuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321.7 323.7 320.8 324.4 3.6 1.1

Utica-Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.2 129.7 128.8 130.1 1.3 1.0

Watertown-Fort Drum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.0 42.0 41.9 41.9 0.0 0.0

North Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,226.4 4,322.2 4,236.2 4,324.9 88.7 2.1

Asheville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182.1 184.7 182.8 186.0 3.2 1.8

Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.1 61.9 61.2 62.0 0.8 1.3

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,089.9 1,126.1 1,093.9 1,130.0 36.1 3.3

Durham-Chapel Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294.3 301.6 296.6 302.9 6.3 2.1

Fayetteville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.8 128.4 129.7 128.5 -1.2 -0.9

Goldsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.9 42.1 42.9 41.7 -1.2 -2.8

Greensboro-High Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355.2 366.3 356.9 367.1 10.2 2.9

Greenville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.8 79.3 78.8 78.6 -0.2 -0.3

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148.3 147.5 147.9 147.2 -0.7 -0.5

Jacksonville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.2 50.0 50.4 49.9 -0.5 -1.0

New Bern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.3 43.8 44.1 43.8 -0.3 -0.7

Raleigh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574.7 583.8 576.7 587.1 10.4 1.8

Rocky Mount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.4 58.3 58.2 58.3 0.1 0.2

Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.3 118.5 117.2 117.2 0.0 0.0

Winston-Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256.5 262.2 256.2 263.7 7.5 2.9

North Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475.1 460.6 472.5 453.5 -19.0 -4.0

Bismarck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.7 76.8 74.4 76.0 1.6 2.2

Fargo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.2 143.1 141.4 142.8 1.4 1.0

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

November December

Change from

December 2014 to December

2015p

2014 2015 2014 2015p Number Percent

North Dakota - Continued

Grand Forks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.9 59.8 58.3 58.8 0.5 0.9

Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,403.7 5,478.7 5,388.6 5,471.5 82.9 1.5

Akron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335.8 342.0 335.3 342.4 7.1 2.1

Canton-Massillon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.5 176.0 173.9 175.7 1.8 1.0

Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,060.1 1,079.3 1,055.9 1,075.6 19.7 1.9

Cleveland-Elyria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,048.3 1,066.5 1,044.8 1,068.1 23.3 2.2

Columbus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,034.2 1,055.4 1,035.7 1,056.0 20.3 2.0

Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379.1 384.1 377.5 385.0 7.5 2.0

Lima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.7 54.7 52.9 55.1 2.2 4.2

Mansfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.1 53.2 53.1 52.9 -0.2 -0.4

Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.6 52.3 52.6 52.0 -0.6 -1.1

Toledo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300.5 305.8 301.5 307.3 5.8 1.9

Weirton-Steubenville1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.4 43.8 43.0 43.2 0.2 0.5

Youngstown-Warren-Boardman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229.7 229.7 227.2 230.1 2.9 1.3

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,679.3 1,678.4 1,679.6 1,670.9 -8.7 -0.5

Lawton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.8 45.2 45.5 45.2 -0.3 -0.7

Oklahoma City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629.2 640.2 629.6 636.5 6.9 1.1

Tulsa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446.8 447.6 448.4 446.7 -1.7 -0.4

Oregon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,761.3 1,810.8 1,760.1 1,808.2 48.1 2.7

Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.1 41.7 41.1 42.2 1.1 2.7

Bend-Redmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.7 72.6 70.4 72.3 1.9 2.7

Corvallis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.7 41.1 40.6 40.7 0.1 0.2

Eugene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.8 153.9 152.1 154.2 2.1 1.4

Grants Pass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.9 25.3 24.8 25.0 0.2 0.8

Medford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.9 85.5 82.6 85.3 2.7 3.3

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,098.4 1,135.5 1,096.1 1,137.8 41.7 3.8

Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153.9 158.0 152.8 156.1 3.3 2.2

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,878.4 5,915.6 5,869.8 5,907.9 38.1 0.6

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356.5 355.8 357.7 354.9 -2.8 -0.8

Altoona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.5 61.1 61.6 61.1 -0.5 -0.8

Bloomsburg-Berwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.4 43.7 43.3 43.1 -0.2 -0.5

Chambersburg-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.9 60.1 60.2 60.5 0.3 0.5

East Stroudsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.3 55.5 55.8 55.0 -0.8 -1.4

Erie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.8 132.5 131.5 132.0 0.5 0.4

Gettysburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.0 35.0 35.1 34.7 -0.4 -1.1

Harrisburg-Carlisle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332.1 340.5 331.5 341.2 9.7 2.9

Johnstown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.5 57.7 58.3 57.3 -1.0 -1.7

Lancaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.5 247.4 241.7 249.6 7.9 3.3

Lebanon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.9 50.8 52.0 50.9 -1.1 -2.1

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,829.1 2,863.1 2,831.2 2,866.7 35.5 1.3

Pittsburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,177.9 1,189.2 1,172.6 1,186.6 14.0 1.2

Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177.9 179.1 178.1 179.0 0.9 0.5

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263.9 269.6 265.2 269.0 3.8 1.4

State College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.6 79.5 78.3 78.7 0.4 0.5

Williamsport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.4 55.4 57.3 55.2 -2.1 -3.7

York-Hanover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181.9 182.2 180.9 182.3 1.4 0.8

Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482.7 490.8 480.8 489.1 8.3 1.7

Providence-Warwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575.0 586.6 573.1 585.0 11.9 2.1

South Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,981.9 2,034.6 1,975.9 2,040.4 64.5 3.3

Charleston-North Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326.2 335.8 327.2 334.8 7.6 2.3

Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379.2 390.3 376.3 390.8 14.5 3.9

Florence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.0 86.2 85.8 86.6 0.8 0.9

Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396.0 405.3 397.0 408.2 11.2 2.8

Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.6 72.5 72.2 72.1 -0.1 -0.1

Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.3 154.3 148.2 152.2 4.0 2.7

Spartanburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.1 145.4 141.7 146.0 4.3 3.0

Sumter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.8 38.7 39.2 39.0 -0.2 -0.5

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

[In thousands]

State and area

November December

Change from

December 2014 to December

2015p

2014 2015 2014 2015p Number Percent

South Dakota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424.0 434.4 422.6 431.9 9.3 2.2

Rapid City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.6 66.1 65.4 65.2 -0.2 -0.3

Sioux Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147.8 153.4 147.7 153.7 6.0 4.1

Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,874.5 2,930.4 2,878.4 2,944.8 66.4 2.3

Chattanooga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.9 248.1 243.6 250.3 6.7 2.8

Clarksville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.4 90.8 89.3 90.6 1.3 1.5

Cleveland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.5 46.0 46.5 46.5 0.0 0.0

Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.1 67.2 66.3 67.1 0.8 1.2

Johnson City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.4 80.2 79.1 79.9 0.8 1.0

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.7 125.0 122.8 125.3 2.5 2.0

Knoxville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386.4 394.9 384.8 397.5 12.7 3.3

Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624.2 629.7 628.2 636.7 8.5 1.4

Morristown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.6 45.8 44.7 45.9 1.2 2.7

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897.2 924.5 899.4 928.5 29.1 3.2

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,776.8 11,966.3 11,811.7 11,980.7 169.0 1.4

Abilene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.1 69.5 69.4 69.7 0.3 0.4

Amarillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.0 118.6 117.6 118.6 1.0 0.9

Austin-Round Rock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928.1 965.4 928.8 963.7 34.9 3.8

Beaumont-Port Arthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168.8 173.8 169.1 174.3 5.2 3.1

Brownsville-Harlingen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137.9 140.5 138.6 141.0 2.4 1.7

College Station-Bryan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.2 109.2 107.5 108.2 0.7 0.7

Corpus Christi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197.8 201.0 197.5 200.4 2.9 1.5

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,341.9 3,450.6 3,359.3 3,458.2 98.9 2.9

El Paso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298.0 302.9 298.4 303.5 5.1 1.7

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,982.7 3,007.3 2,992.6 3,015.8 23.2 0.8

Killeen-Temple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.4 136.9 137.0 137.5 0.5 0.4

Laredo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.5 102.7 100.9 102.8 1.9 1.9

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.9 106.9 105.9 106.4 0.5 0.5

Lubbock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138.9 141.9 139.0 142.0 3.0 2.2

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247.9 254.5 249.8 255.8 6.0 2.4

Midland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.6 100.5 98.8 100.6 1.8 1.8

Odessa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.7 83.6 82.3 83.5 1.2 1.5

San Angelo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.8 49.5 49.6 49.9 0.3 0.6

San Antonio-New Braunfels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964.2 1,000.7 965.3 998.9 33.6 3.5

Sherman-Denison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.7 46.3 46.1 46.0 -0.1 -0.2

Texarkana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.5 59.0 59.5 59.0 -0.5 -0.8

Tyler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.2 100.9 101.2 101.2 0.0 0.0

Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.5 46.6 45.8 46.6 0.8 1.7

Waco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.2 114.1 112.7 113.7 1.0 0.9

Wichita Falls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.5 57.6 59.0 57.5 -1.5 -2.5

Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,356.4 1,404.6 1,365.2 1,408.5 43.3 3.2

Logan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.7 60.2 58.9 60.0 1.1 1.9

Ogden-Clearfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236.4 242.6 235.3 241.4 6.1 2.6

Provo-Orem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219.4 230.6 221.1 230.1 9.0 4.1

St. George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.1 56.5 55.1 56.0 0.9 1.6

Salt Lake City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666.7 689.9 671.3 691.2 19.9 3.0

Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315.2 319.1 319.1 322.0 2.9 0.9

Burlington-South Burlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.9 128.5 125.2 127.9 2.7 2.2

Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,823.1 3,875.6 3,817.3 3,875.9 58.6 1.5

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.2 79.9 78.8 80.6 1.8 2.3

Charlottesville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.5 115.1 113.1 113.9 0.8 0.7

Harrisonburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.8 66.6 65.9 66.4 0.5 0.8

Lynchburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.4 104.4 104.4 103.8 -0.6 -0.6

Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643.5 646.2 643.1 646.3 3.2 0.5

Roanoke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162.4 162.0 162.8 162.2 -0.6 -0.4

Staunton-Waynesboro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.2 48.5 48.7 48.5 -0.2 -0.4

Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759.4 765.4 758.4 765.7 7.3 1.0

Winchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.1 62.3 60.9 62.4 1.5 2.5

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,134.6 3,223.8 3,127.4 3,215.2 87.8 2.8

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

November December

Change from

December 2014 to December

2015p

2014 2015 2014 2015p Number Percent

Washington - Continued

Bellingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.5 90.4 88.6 90.1 1.5 1.7

Bremerton-Silverdale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.5 87.9 87.2 88.3 1.1 1.3

Kennewick-Richland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105.5 107.1 104.7 106.6 1.9 1.8

Longview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.7 39.3 39.6 39.2 -0.4 -1.0

Mount Vernon-Anacortes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.8 48.2 48.4 47.7 -0.7 -1.4

Olympia-Tumwater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.9 110.9 109.1 110.3 1.2 1.1

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,875.3 1,931.7 1,875.1 1,931.9 56.8 3.0

Spokane-Spokane Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237.3 243.4 235.7 241.5 5.8 2.5

Walla Walla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.5 27.6 27.0 27.4 0.4 1.5

Wenatchee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.6 41.9 41.1 40.9 -0.2 -0.5

Yakima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.6 82.8 80.3 81.5 1.2 1.5

West Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770.0 759.1 767.3 755.4 -11.9 -1.6

Beckley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.4 47.4 47.4 47.3 -0.1 -0.2

Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.2 123.7 124.3 123.5 -0.8 -0.6

Huntington-Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.9 143.4 142.8 143.2 0.4 0.3

Morgantown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.4 70.7 70.9 70.4 -0.5 -0.7

Parkersburg-Vienna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.6 43.4 43.6 43.3 -0.3 -0.7

Wheeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.7 69.3 69.6 69.1 -0.5 -0.7

Wisconsin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,897.4 2,928.5 2,881.6 2,908.2 26.6 0.9

Appleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.3 126.0 122.5 126.3 3.8 3.1

Eau Claire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.1 87.0 85.8 86.2 0.4 0.5

Fond du Lac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.7 49.2 48.6 48.4 -0.2 -0.4

Green Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.9 178.8 174.4 178.0 3.6 2.1

Janesville-Beloit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.4 68.4 67.5 68.3 0.8 1.2

La Crosse-Onalaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.1 78.5 78.0 78.5 0.5 0.6

Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390.4 399.2 389.2 395.3 6.1 1.6

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856.3 863.7 849.7 856.6 6.9 0.8

Oshkosh-Neenah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.0 97.4 95.1 97.2 2.1 2.2

Racine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.9 76.2 76.5 75.9 -0.6 -0.8

Sheboygan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 62.1 61.1 62.5 1.4 2.3

Wausau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.8 73.0 72.0 73.1 1.1 1.5

Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290.8 288.0 292.3 285.8 -6.5 -2.2

Casper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.2 42.2 43.2 41.9 -1.3 -3.0

Cheyenne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.0 47.7 47.6 47.3 -0.3 -0.6

Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916.0 920.5 928.6 931.3 2.7 0.3

Aguadilla-Isabela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.4 52.0 52.2 52.4 0.2 0.4

Arecibo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.4 34.5 35.2 35.3 0.1 0.3

Guayama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.0 14.8 15.2 14.9 -0.3 -2.0

Mayaguez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.5 35.8 36.0 36.5 0.5 1.4

Ponce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.4 73.0 75.3 74.9 -0.4 -0.5

San German. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.9 20.8 21.1 21.1 0.0 0.0

San Juan-Carolina-Caguas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665.1 669.0 674.1 676.2 2.1 0.3

Virgin Islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.1 38.4 38.3 38.4 0.1 0.3

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

the first principal city.

2 Area boundary does not reflect the official OMB delineation.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmark are preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes

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

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

county-based. Some metropolitan areas lie in two or more states. They are listed under the state containing the first principal city, unless otherwise footnoted. Estimates for

the latest month are subject to revision the following month.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

Table 4. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state, selected metropolitan area, and metropolitan division1

[In thousands]

State, area, and division

November December

Change from

December 2014 to December

2015p

2014 2015 2014 2015p Number Percent

California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,995.2 16,419.5 15,994.3 16,458.5 464.2 2.9

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,844.8 5,958.9 5,853.1 5,988.2 135.1 2.3

Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,531.5 1,570.3 1,531.9 1,573.3 41.4 2.7

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,313.3 4,388.6 4,321.2 4,414.9 93.7 2.2

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,237.0 2,301.6 2,244.2 2,310.5 66.3 3.0

Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,087.0 1,104.9 1,088.4 1,109.7 21.3 2.0

San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,036.4 1,078.1 1,042.3 1,081.0 38.7 3.7

San Rafael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113.6 118.6 113.5 119.8 6.3 5.6

District of Columbia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767.8 775.5 764.0 774.6 10.6 1.4

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,158.7 3,220.5 3,156.3 3,224.8 68.5 2.2

Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579.1 597.1 579.2 599.3 20.1 3.5

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,579.6 2,623.4 2,577.1 2,625.5 48.4 1.9

Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,010.3 8,243.5 8,049.4 8,284.6 235.2 2.9

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,488.0 2,543.7 2,500.3 2,555.6 55.3 2.2

Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794.8 820.8 802.2 827.1 24.9 3.1

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,116.3 1,132.9 1,119.6 1,135.9 16.3 1.5

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576.9 590.0 578.5 592.6 14.1 2.4

Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,953.9 5,982.6 5,951.3 5,949.7 -1.6 0.0

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,566.8 4,609.3 4,563.5 4,591.0 27.5 0.6

Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,625.9 3,666.9 3,631.3 3,658.1 26.8 0.7

Elgin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255.0 260.6 251.6 255.7 4.1 1.6

Gary3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279.4 280.9 279.1 280.8 1.7 0.6

Lake County-Kenosha County2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406.5 400.9 401.5 396.4 -5.1 -1.3

Massachusetts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,463.5 3,539.7 3,462.8 3,537.5 74.7 2.2

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,628.1 2,675.5 2,629.8 2,675.6 45.8 1.7

Boston-Cambridge-Newton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,755.2 1,793.8 1,755.6 1,793.1 37.5 2.1

Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.9 83.1 81.9 82.8 0.9 1.1

Framingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.1 175.1 171.9 175.6 3.7 2.2

Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.2 64.8 63.2 64.6 1.4 2.2

Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.4 81.4 79.9 81.4 1.5 1.9

Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148.8 150.2 149.5 150.1 0.6 0.4

Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.3 46.3 45.5 46.5 1.0 2.2

Nashua2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126.3 124.3 126.5 125.0 -1.5 -1.2

Peabody-Salem-Beverly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.8 97.8 96.5 98.1 1.6 1.7

Taunton-Middleborough-Norton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.1 58.7 59.3 58.4 -0.9 -1.5

Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,253.9 4,334.4 4,237.5 4,318.8 81.3 1.9

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,931.4 1,968.2 1,928.5 1,968.1 39.6 2.1

Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736.5 749.3 739.3 748.4 9.1 1.2

Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,194.9 1,218.9 1,189.2 1,219.7 30.5 2.6

New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,236.7 9,406.3 9,242.8 9,403.1 160.3 1.7

New York-Newark-Jersey City2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,293.0 9,453.4 9,312.8 9,469.2 156.4 1.7

Dutchess County-Putnam County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.9 141.4 144.5 141.2 -3.3 -2.3

Nassau County-Suffolk County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,306.9 1,328.7 1,308.2 1,328.1 19.9 1.5

Newark3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,199.5 1,211.2 1,197.8 1,214.9 17.1 1.4

New York-Jersey City-White Plains2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,641.7 6,772.1 6,662.3 6,785.0 122.7 1.8

Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,878.4 5,915.6 5,869.8 5,907.9 38.1 0.6

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,829.1 2,863.1 2,831.2 2,866.7 35.5 1.3

Camden3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518.9 525.3 520.8 526.8 6.0 1.2

Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,030.1 1,045.3 1,031.1 1,049.3 18.2 1.8

Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924.4 930.7 923.5 928.2 4.7 0.5

Wilmington3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355.7 361.8 355.8 362.4 6.6 1.9

Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,776.8 11,966.3 11,811.7 11,980.7 169.0 1.4

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,341.9 3,450.6 3,359.3 3,458.2 98.9 2.9

Dallas-Plano-Irving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,347.4 2,443.4 2,360.3 2,444.7 84.4 3.6

Fort Worth-Arlington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994.5 1,007.2 999.0 1,013.5 14.5 1.5

Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,134.6 3,223.8 3,127.4 3,215.2 87.8 2.8

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,875.3 1,931.7 1,875.1 1,931.9 56.8 3.0

Seattle-Bellevue-Everett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,581.5 1,625.9 1,580.5 1,626.7 46.2 2.9

Tacoma-Lakewood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293.8 305.8 294.6 305.2 10.6 3.6

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

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

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

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data are counts of jobs by place of work. Estimates subsequent to the current benchmark are preliminary and will be revised when new information becomes available. Area definitions are

based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 13-01, dated February 28, 2013, and available at www.bls.gov/lau/lausmsa.htm. Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New

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

city. Metropolitan divisions are listed under their metropolitan areas. Some divisions lie in more than one state, and some, like Camden, N.J., are totally outside the states under which their

metropolitan areas are listed. For Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va., the metropolitan area and division titles are identical. Estimates for the latest month are subject to revision the

following month.
Unemployment rates for metropolitan areas,

not seasonally adjusted, December 2015

(U.S. rate = 4.8 percent)

Map includes data for 387 metropolitan areas basedon Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 13-01. Areas in the six New England states are Metropolitan New England City and Town areas (NECTAs), while areas in other states are county-based.

NOTE: