Unemployment Rate Keeps Dropping in Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, Seal Beach

By John Crandall

You’re a little more likelyto have just gotten a job if you live in northwestern Orange County

The unemployment rate dropped in Los Alamitos, Rossmoor and Seal Beach for the fourth straight month, according to recently released state figures for April. 

Rossmoor fell from 3.9 percent in March to 3.5 percent in April. Los Alamitos fell from 3.5 in March to 3.1 in April and Seal Beach saw the biggest change from 4.6 in March to 4.1 in April.

The figure mirrors a drop in the state. Unemployment dipped in California in April from 9.4 percent to 9 percent, according to recently released figures from the California Employment Development Department.

The state's non-seasonally adjusted rate was 8.5 percent in April -- seasonal adjustment accounts for seasonal shifts in labor such as increased construction and agricultural work in spring and summer -- only non-seasonally adjusted figures are available for individual cities.

How to Use the Map
You can see how every city in the state fared in April's report, by clicking on it in the above map.  The blue cities are within 10 percent of the state average, the light green are have unemployment rates at least 50 percent lower than state average, and darker green cities are between.

Conversely, the bright red cities have unemployment rates at least 50 percent higher than state average and the lighter red cities are between.

Editor Dan Abendschein contributed to this  story