Unemployment rates for US cities in the South
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Originally published: Apr 10, 2013 - 3:11 pm
Originally published: Apr 10, 2013 - 3:11 pm
| Unemployment rates fell in more than 80 percent of large U.S. cities in February from January, suggesting that strong hiring that month benefited the vast majority of the country. |
| The Labor Department says rates fell in 311 of the nation's 372 largest metro areas. They rose in 45 and were unchanged in 16. |
| Nationwide, employers added 268,000 jobs in February, the most in a year. That pushed down the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent. But hiring slowed sharply last month, when employers added only 88,000 jobs. |
| Here are the unemployment rates for cities in the South: |
| Metro Area Unemployment Rates, South |
| Unemployment rates by state and city |
| Figures in percentages |
| Feb. 2013 Jan. 2013 Feb. 2012 |
| Alabama 7.8 7.8 7.6 |
| Anniston-Oxford 8.2 8.1 7.8 |
| Auburn-Opelika 6.4 6.6 6.2 |
| Birmingham-Hoover 7 6.9 6.8 |
| Decatur 7.8 7.6 7.9 |
| Dothan 7.7 7.6 7.2 |
| Florence-Muscle Shoals 7.6 7.7 7.7 |
| Gadsden 7.9 7.9 7.6 |
| Huntsville 6.8 6.6 6.6 |
| Mobile 8.9 8.7 8.7 |
| Montgomery 7.9 7.9 7.7 |
| Tuscaloosa 7.2 7.4 6.8 |
| Arkansas 7.8 8.2 8.2 |
| Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers 5.8 5.9 6.4 |
| Fort Smith 8.3 8.7 8.3 |
| Hot Springs 8.2 8.4 8.5 |
| Jonesboro 7.3 7.8 7.7 |
| Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway 7 7.1 7.2 |
| Pine Bluff 10.1 10.5 10 |
| Delaware 7.6 7.9 7.6 |
| Dover 8.1 8.4 8 |
| Washington, D.C. 8.6 9.3 9.5 |
| Washington-Arlington-Alexandria-Md. 5.5 5.7 5.9 |
| Florida 7.5 8 9 |
| Cape Coral-Fort Myers 7.4 7.9 9.3 |
| Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin 5.5 6 6.9 |
| Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach 7.6 8.2 9.5 |
| Gainesville 5.6 6.1 7 |
| Jacksonville 7 7.5 8.9 |
| Lakeland-Winter Haven 8.3 8.9 10.2 |
| Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach 7.9 8.2 8.7 |
| Naples-Marco Island 6.9 7.5 8.3 |
| North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota 7.2 7.9 9.1 |
| Ocala 8.4 9.1 10.8 |
| Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford 7.1 7.7 9 |
| Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville 8 8.5 10 |
| Palm Coast 10.3 11 12.5 |
| Panama City-Lynn Haven 7.8 8.9 9.4 |
| Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent 7.1 7.7 8.7 |
| Port St Lucie 8.8 9.5 10.5 |
| Punta Gorda 7.4 8.1 9.3 |
| Sebastian-Vero Beach 8.9 9.5 10.3 |
| Tallahassee 6.4 6.8 7.7 |
| Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater 7.4 8 9.4 |
| Georgia 8.6 9.1 9.5 |
| Albany 9.2 9.7 9.9 |
| Athens-Clarke County 6.1 6.5 7 |
| Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta 8.3 8.7 9.3 |
| Augusta-Richmond County 8.5 9.1 9 |
| Brunswick 9.6 10.2 10.7 |
| Columbus 8.8 9.4 9.1 |
| Dalton 11 11.9 12.4 |
| Gainesville 6.9 7.4 8 |
| Hinesville-Fort Stewart 8.8 9.3 9.4 |
| Macon 9 9.4 10 |
| Rome 9.3 10.2 10.8 |
| Savannah 7.8 8.3 8.7 |
| Valdosta 8.1 8.6 8.9 |
| Warner Robins 7.2 7.6 7.8 |
| Kentucky 8.6 8.7 9.3 |
| Bowling Green 7.4 7.8 8 |
| Elizabethtown 7.8 8 9.2 |
| Lexington-Fayette 6.8 6.8 7.5 |
| Louisville-Jefferson County 8.4 8.4 9.5 |
| Owensboro 7.2 7.4 7.8 |
| Louisiana 5.8 7.2 6.8 |
| Alexandria 5.8 7.4 6.8 |
| Baton Rouge 5.5 7 6.8 |
| Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux 4 5.2 4.9 |
| Lafayette 4.2 5.4 5.1 |
| Lake Charles 5.2 6.6 6.2 |
| Monroe 6.3 7.7 7.4 |
| New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner 5.9 7.2 6.8 |
| Shreveport-Bossier City 6.3 7.6 6.5 |
| Maryland 6.9 7.2 7.2 |
| Baltimore-Towson 7.1 7.5 7.5 |
| Cumberland 8.2 9 8.8 |
| Hagerstown-Martinsburg 8 8.3 8.8 |
| Salisbury 9.5 9.9 10.1 |
| Mississippi 9.9 10.7 9.5 |
| Gulfport-Biloxi 9.4 10.1 9.1 |
| Hattiesburg 8.6 9.3 8.2 |
| Jackson 7.9 8.6 7.6 |
| Pascagoula 10.7 11.5 10.4 |
| North Carolina 9.5 10.2 10 |
| Asheville 7.8 8.4 8.5 |
| Burlington 9.3 10.1 9.8 |
| Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill 9.4 10 10 |
| Durham-Chapel Hill 7 7.7 7.6 |
| Fayetteville 10 10.8 10 |
| Goldsboro 9.2 9.8 9 |
| Greensboro-High Point 9.9 10.6 10.2 |
| Greenville 9.1 10 9.3 |
| Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton 10.8 11.6 11.7 |
| Jacksonville 8.9 9.5 9 |
| Raleigh-Cary 7.5 8 8.1 |
| Rocky Mount 13.2 14.1 13.3 |
| Wilmington 10.2 11.1 10.7 |
| Winston-Salem 8.8 9.5 9.3 |
| Oklahoma 5.3 5.6 5.7 |
| Lawton 6.6 6.9 7 |
| Oklahoma City 4.9 5.2 5.2 |
| Tulsa 5.6 5.9 6.3 |
| South Carolina 8.8 9.3 9.8 |
| Anderson 7.9 8.5 9.7 |
| Charleston-Summerville 6.8 7.3 8 |
| Columbia 7.4 7.9 8.4 |
| Florence 9.8 10.1 10.8 |
| Greenville-Mauldin-Easley 6.9 7.3 7.9 |
| Myrtle Beach-Conway 11.2 12.4 13 |
| Spartanburg 8.4 8.9 9.5 |
| Sumter 9.8 10.2 10.9 |
| Tennessee 8.2 8.5 8.5 |
| Chattanooga 7.5 8 7.7 |
| Clarksville 8.6 9 9 |
| Cleveland 7.8 7.9 8.4 |
| Jackson 8.3 8.6 8.5 |
| Johnson City 7.5 7.9 7.7 |
| Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol 7.4 7.7 7.8 |
| Knoxville 6.7 6.9 6.8 |
| Memphis 9.3 9.7 9.3 |
| Morristown 10.1 10.3 10.4 |
| Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro 6.4 6.6 7.1 |
| Texas 6.5 6.9 7.2 |
| Abilene 5.1 5.4 5.6 |
| Amarillo 4.6 4.9 5 |
| Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos 5.4 5.8 6.2 |
| Beaumont-Port Arthur 9.9 10.9 10 |
| Brownsville-Harlingen 10.4 11 11.1 |
| College Station-Bryan 5.3 5.9 5.8 |
| Corpus Christi 5.9 6.5 6.9 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 6.3 6.7 7.2 |
| El Paso 9.1 9.5 9.8 |
| Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown 6.3 6.7 7.3 |
| Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood 7.1 7.5 7.9 |
| Laredo 6.9 7.2 7.6 |
| Longview 5.7 6.2 6 |
| Lubbock 5.1 5.5 5.7 |
| McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 11 11.6 11.4 |
| Midland 3.2 3.4 3.7 |
| Odessa 3.8 4.1 4.6 |
| San Angelo 5.1 5.4 5.6 |
| San Antonio-New Braunfels 6.1 6.6 6.9 |
| Sherman-Denison 7 7.5 7.8 |
| Texarkana 6.8 7.2 7.3 |
| Tyler 6.6 7.2 7.4 |
| Victoria 5.4 5.8 6.1 |
| Waco 6.1 6.5 6.9 |
| Wichita Falls 6 6.3 6.3 |
| Virginia 5.7 6.2 6.3 |
| Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford 7 8.3 6.5 |
| Charlottesville 4.9 5.3 5.5 |
| Danville 7.9 8.6 9 |
| Harrisonburg 5.4 5.6 6.2 |
| Lynchburg 6.4 6.8 7.1 |
| Richmond 6.2 6.6 6.9 |
| Roanoke 6 6.4 6.6 |
| Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News 6.2 6.8 7.1 |
| Winchester 5.7 6.1 6.6 |
| West Virginia 8.1 8.3 8.1 |
| Charleston 7.6 7.8 7.3 |
| Huntington-Ashland 7.7 8.2 8.2 |
| Morgantown 5.6 6.1 5.8 |
| Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna 8.1 8.4 8.8 |
| Wheeling 8.3 9.3 8.5 |
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