In the December 2024 ranking of the unemployment rates in the United States' larger metropolitan areas, the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minnesota metro area had the lowest rate, at 2.5 percent. In the same period, the unemployment rate was highest in the Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, Nevada metro area at 5.9 percent.
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Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (MSA) (SEAT653URN) from Jan 1994 to May 2025 about Seattle, WA, unemployment, rate, and USA.
VITAL SIGNS INDICATOR
Unemployment (EC3)
FULL MEASURE NAME
Unemployment rate by residential location
LAST UPDATED
December 2022
DESCRIPTION
Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force – by place of residence – that is not currently employed full-time or part-time. The unemployment rate reflects the strength of the overall employment market.
DATA SOURCE
California Employment Development Department: Historical Unemployment Rates
1990-2010
Spreadsheet provided by CAEDD
California Employment Development Department: Labor Force and Unemployment Rate for California Sub-County Areas - https://data.edd.ca.gov/Labor-Force-and-Unemployment-Rates/Labor-Force-and-Unemployment-Rate-for-California-S/8z4h-2ak6
2010-2022
California Employment Development Department: Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) - https://data.edd.ca.gov/Labor-Force-and-Unemployment-Rates/Local-Area-Unemployment-Statistics-LAUS-/e6gw-gvii
1990-2022
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) - https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la
1990-2021
CONTACT INFORMATION
vitalsigns.info@bayareametro.gov
METHODOLOGY NOTES (across all datasets for this indicator)
Unemployment rates produced by the CA Employment Development Department (EDD) for the region and county levels are not adjusted for seasonality (as they reflect annual data) and are final data (i.e., not preliminary). Unemployment rates produced by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the metro regions are annual and not adjusted for seasonality; they reflect the primary metropolitan statistical area (MSA) for the named region, except for the San Francisco Bay Area which uses the nine-county region. The unemployment rate is calculated based on the number of unemployed persons divided by the total labor force. Note that the unemployment rate can decline or increase as a result of changes in either variable.
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The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) became law on August 8, 2022. Under the law, new qualifying renewable and/or carbon-free electricity generation projects constructed in certain areas of the US, called energy communities, are eligible for bonus worth an additional 10% to the value of the production tax credit or a 10 percentage point increase in the value of the investment tax credit. The IRA does not explicitly map or list these specific communities. Instead, eligible communities are defined by a series of qualifications:
These maps and data layers contain GIS data for coal mines, coal-fired power plants, fossil energy related employment, and brownfield sites. Each record represents a point, tract or metropolitan statistical area and non-metropolitan statistical area with attributes including plant type, operating information, GEOID, etc. The input data used includes:
--Possibly Eligible MSAs (“FossilFuel_Employment_Qualifying_MSAs”) are MSA and non-MSA regions that meet or exceed the 0.17% employment in the fossil fuel industry threshold but do not exceed the unemployment threshold.
--Relevant columns include:
a) SUM_nhgis0: Total employment in 2020.
b) SUM_nhgis1: Total unemployment in 2020.
c) P_Unemp: Percent unemployment in 2020.
d) Q_Unemp: Boolean column indicating if the MSA or non-MSA’s unemployment rate is at or above the national average of 3.9%.
e) FF_Qual: Boolean column indicating if the MSA or non-MSA had employment in the fossil fuel industry at or above 0.17% in the past 11 years.
f) final_Qual: Boolean column indicating if an MSA or non-MSA qualifies for both unemployment rate and fossil fuel employment under the IRA.
--Adjacent tract data was derived by Cecelia Isaac using ESRI ArcGIS Pro.
--Adjacent tract data was derived by Cecelia Isaac using ESRI ArcGIS Pro.
5) US State Borders– Source: IPUMS NHGIS.
Also included here are polygon shapefiles for Onshore Wind and Solar Candidate Project Areas from Princeton REPEAT. These files have been updated to include columns related to the energy communities.
New columns include:
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In the December 2024 ranking of the unemployment rates in the United States' larger metropolitan areas, the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minnesota metro area had the lowest rate, at 2.5 percent. In the same period, the unemployment rate was highest in the Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, Nevada metro area at 5.9 percent.