Jobless
rate drops a bit in most counties
Unemployment rates fell in 85
North Carolina counties in March and in 10 of the state's 11
metro areas,, according to the N.C.
Employment Security Commission. The
rates increased in 12 counties and were unchanged in the
remaining three counties. North Carolina’s state
unemployment rate is at 4.5 percent. Tyrrell County had the
state’s highest unemployment rate in March, at 14.7 percent.
Wake County had the lowest, at 1.8 percent.
March unemployment rates in the
state's metro, compared with February were:
- Asheville, 3.1
percent, down from 3.9 percent
- Charlotte/Gastonia/Rock
Hill, NC/SC, 3.8 percent, down from 4.0 percent
- Fayetteville, 4.6
percent, down from 5.3 percent
- Goldsboro, 4.8
percent, down from 4.9 percent
- Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High
Point, 4.1 percent, up from 3.9 percent
- Greenville, 5.3
percent, down from 5.6 percent
- Hickory/Morganton/Lenoir,
4.5 percent, down from 5.3 percent
- Jacksonville, 3.9
percent, down from 4.9 percent
- Raleigh/Durham/Chapel
Hill, 2.1 percent, down from 2.3 percent
- Rocky Mount, 6.1
percent, down from 6.7 percent
- Wilmington, 3.5
percent, down from 4.4 percent
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