November 03, 2021
Salt Lake City had the lowest unemployment rate of any major US metropolitan area in September with an unemployment rate of 1.7%, according to data released today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Oklahoma City followed with 1.9%.
The highest major metro unemployment rates in September were in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim area of California and the Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise area of Nevada at 7.4% each. However, the Las Vegas area also recorded the largest year-on-year decline among the major US metropolises – a minus of 8.0 percentage points.
All 51 major US metropolises recorded a year-on-year decline in their unemployment rate.
Of all metropolitan areas of all sizes, the Logan area of Utah and Idaho had the lowest rate at 1.2%, closely followed by Lincoln, Nebraska, at 1.3%. The highest rate was in El Centro, California, at 18.1%.
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