PROVIDENCE – The unadjusted unemployment rate in the Providence-Warwick metropolitan area was 2.6% in April, a decrease from 3.9% one month ago and down from 3.1% in April 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday.
Unadjusted for seasonal employment patterns, the U.S. jobless rate in April was 3.1%, down from 3.3% a year earlier. The BLS said Wednesday that unemployment rates were lower in April than a year earlier in 252 of the 389 U.S. metropolitan areas, higher in 103 areas and unchanged in 34.
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There were 17,700 individuals unemployed in the Providence metro area in April, down from 21,500 one year prior. The labor force in the area totaled 692,411, a decline of 7,575 from one year prior.
In the New Bedford metro area in April, the unemployment rate was 3.7%, a decline from 4.7% one month prior and 4.9% in April 2022.
The unemployment rate in the Norwich-New London, Conn.-Westerly metro area was 2.9% in April, a decrease from 4.1% one month prior and 4.0% in April 2022.
