Southern Nevada’s jobless rate was again one of the highest in the country for large metro areas, new data shows.
The Las Vegas-area’s unemployment rate in September, 5.7 percent, was third highest among the 50-plus metro areas with at least 1 million people, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Honolulu had the lowest jobless rate among that group, at 2.2 percent. Las Vegas’ rate was lower than only Riverside, California (5.9 percent) and Fresno, California (7.5 percent), according to non-seasonally adjusted data from the bureau.
Nationally, jobless rates were higher in September than a year earlier for 275 of the 387 metro areas overall, the bureau reported Wednesday.
