Westchester Has One of New York's Lowest Jobless Rates

Editor’s Note: This story was first published earlier in the week but here it is again in case you missed it.

The New York Department of Labor has released unemployment figures for March, and Dutchess, Columbia, Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties are shown to be among the counties with the lowest jobless rates.

The counties in the state with the lowest unemployment rates include:

• Tompkins County (3.5%)
• Nassau County (3.9%)
• Putnam County (3.9%)
• Rockland County (4.0%)
• Albany County (4.1%)
• Columbia County (4.1%)
• Dutchess County (4.1%)
• Saratoga County (4.1%)
• Orange County (4.2%)
• Westchester County (4.2%)

As far as metro areas go, Labor Department officials said that unemployment in Dutchess-Putnam dropped to 4.1 percent from 4.7 percent in March 2015. That change, for Orange-Rockland-Westchester, was to 4.2 percent from 4.8 percent. The Kingston metro area also declined: to 4.5 percent from 5.3 percent.

Compare that to unemployment in the Watertown-Fort Drum region, where unemployment in March was 7.3 percent, the highest in a metro area in the state.

Overall, the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.8 percent in March 2016, remaining at its lowest level since November 2007.

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