Lowest NY Jobless Rates: 3 Hudson Valley Counties Make The List

YORKTOWN, NY — New York’s statewide unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.6 percent in March 2018. This unemployment rate matches New York State’s lowest level since July 2007. New York City’s jobless rate was also unchanged, at 4.2 percent, in March 2018, and remains at an all-time low (the current series dates back to 1976).

“New York State’s economy continued to expand in March as we reached a new, all-time high private sector job count and remained at our lowest statewide unemployment rate since before the recession,” said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, Director of the New York State Department of Labor’s Division of Research and Statistics.

Find or post job opportunities on Yorktown-Somers Patch.

The counties in New York State with the lowest unemployment rates in March 2018 include:

• New York County (3.7%)
• Queens County (3.7%)
• Richmond County (4.1%)
• Nassau County (4.2%)
• Tompkins County (4.2%)
• Kings County (4.3%)
• Albany County (4.4%)
• Putnam County (4.4%)
• Dutchess County (4.5%)
• Rockland County (4.5%)
• Saratoga County (4.5%)

Orange, Ulster and Westchester didn't make the list. The jobless rate in all three counties is slightly higher than the state average.

• Orange - 4.8%
• Ulster - 4.9%
• Westchester - 4.7%

The State’s private sector job count is based on a payroll survey of 18,000 New York employers conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Monthly payroll employment estimates are preliminary and subject to revision as more data become available the following month. The federal government calculates New York State’s unemployment rate based partly upon the results of the Current Population Survey, which contacts approximately 3,100 households in New York State each month.

Image via Shutterstock.