Unemployment rates for Northeastern US cities
Wednesday - 10/3/2012, 3:13pm ET
| Unemployment rates fell in August in nearly 90 percent of large U.S. metro areas, mainly because more people gave up looking for work. |
| The Labor Department said Wednesday that unemployment rates dropped in 329 large cities, the most in four months. Rates rose in 24 cities and were unchanged in 19. |
| Here are unemployment rates in August for states and cities in the Northeast: |
| Metro Area Unemployment Rates, Northeast |
| Unemployment rates by state and city |
| Figures in percentages |
| Aug. 2012 July 2012 Aug. 2011 |
| Connecticut 9.2 9.3 8.9 |
| Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk 8.5 8.5 8.2 |
| Danbury 7.5 7.6 7.2 |
| Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford 9.4 9.4 9 |
| New Haven 9.7 9.7 9.4 |
| Norwich-New London 9.2 9.3 8.6 |
| Waterbury 11.8 11.7 11.7 |
| Maine 6.7 7.4 6.7 |
| Bangor 7 8.2 7.1 |
| Lewiston-Auburn 7.2 7.9 7 |
| Portland-South Portland-Biddeford 5.5 6.1 5.4 |
| Massachusetts 6.4 6.6 7.2 |
| Barnstable Town 5.4 5.6 6.3 |
| Boston-Cambridge-Quincy 5.9 6.1 6.6 |
| Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner 8.9 9 9.9 |
| New Bedford 9.9 9.9 10.4 |
| Pittsfield 6.3 6.5 6.6 |
| Springfield 7.8 8 8.4 |
| Worcester 7.1 7.4 7.8 |
| New Hampshire 5.7 5.7 5.4 |
| Manchester 5.8 5.7 5.4 |
| Portsmouth 4.7 4.8 4.5 |
| Rochester-Dover 5.7 5.8 5.6 |
| New Jersey 9.7 10.1 9.3 |
| Atlantic City-Hammonton 12.2 12.6 11.9 |
| Ocean City 9 9.4 8.2 |
| Trenton-Ewing 8.3 8.8 7.8 |
| Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton 13.9 14.2 13.1 |
| New York 8.8 9.1 8.1 |
| Albany-Schenectady-Troy 7.8 8 7 |
| Binghamton 8.9 9.1 7.9 |
| Buffalo-Niagara Falls 8.8 9 7.7 |
| Elmira 9.1 9.3 7.5 |
| Glens Falls 7.5 7.6 6.6 |
| Ithaca 6.7 7 6.2 |
| Kingston 9.2 9.4 8 |
| New York-N. New Jersey-Long Island 9.1 9.5 8.6 |
| Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown 8.4 8.7 7.5 |
| Rochester 8.3 8.5 7.5 |
| Syracuse 8.6 8.9 7.8 |
| Utica-Rome 8.2 8.6 7.7 |
| Pennsylvania 8.2 8.4 8.2 |
| Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton 8.8 9 8.9 |
| Altoona 7.5 7.7 7.2 |
| Erie 7.6 7.9 8.1 |
| Harrisburg-Carlisle 7.5 7.6 7.5 |
| Johnstown 9.2 9.5 9 |
| Lancaster 6.8 6.9 7.2 |
| Lebanon 6.9 6.7 6.8 |
| Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 9 9.2 8.9 |
| Pittsburgh 7.5 7.6 7.5 |
| Reading 8.2 8.3 8.5 |
| Scranton--Wilkes-Barre 9.6 9.8 9.4 |
| State College 6.3 6.7 6.4 |
| Williamsport 8.1 8.5 7.8 |
| York-Hanover 8 8.3 8 |
| Rhode Island 10.6 11.2 11.3 |
| Providence-Fall River-Warwick 10.4 10.9 11.2 |
| Vermont 5 5.3 5.1 |
| Burlington-South Burlington 4.3 4.6 4.4 |
