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Unemployment ticked up in Utah’s metro areas, but jobless rates were still far below almost all other states.
Driving the news: Federal unemployment figures released Wednesday show all five of Utah’s metro areas — urban areas with at least 50,000 people — had unemployment rates of 2.6% or less than of June.
- Only four other states had lower rates for all of their metro areas: New Hampshire, Vermont and North and South Dakota.
By the numbers: Logan’s unemployment rate — 2.2% — was the lowest in the state and tied for the 11th lowest of 396 cities nationwide.
- Provo-Orem tied for No. 17, at 2.3%.
- Salt Lake City and Ogden-Clearfield tied for no. 22, with a rate of 2.4%
- At 2.6%, St. George had the 35th-lowest jobless rate.
Flashback: Utah’s unemployment rate is consistently low, so its cities’ jobless numbers had less room to fall than they did in other states.
- Utah’s metro unemployment rates fell less than 1%, while most of the country’s workers live in cities where unemployment fell at least 2%.
- Only Grand Island, Nebraska, and Yuma, Arizona, saw less of a decline than Logan’s drop of just 0.2% since June 2021.
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