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NHES Releases New Hampshire Local Area Unemployment Statistics for September 2019

This article contains the local area unemployment rates from New Hampshire Employment Security (NHES).

(Note: Rates are not seasonally adjusted)

· The September 2019 not seasonally adjusted State unemployment rate was 2.3 percent. This was a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from the August rate. The September 2018 rate was 2.2 percent.

· New Hampshire’s September 2019 not seasonally adjusted labor force estimates show 10,520 more employed and 1,750 more unemployed than in September 2018 for a year-to-year net gain in the labor force of 12,270.

· Thirteen areas recorded rates below the statewide not seasonally adjusted average of 2.3 percent:

· Charlestown NH Labor Market Area – 2.1 percent

· Concord NH Micropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.1 percent

· New Hampshire portion of the Conway NH-ME Labor Market Area – 2.1 percent

· New Hampshire portion of the Lebanon NH-VT Micropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.1 percent

· New Hampshire portion of the Littleton NH-VT Labor Market Area – 2.1 percent

· Meredith NH Labor Market Area – 2.1 percent

· Newport NH Labor Market Area – 2.1 percent

· Belmont NH Labor Market Area – 2.2 percent

· New Hampshire portion of the Colebrook NH-VT Labor Market Area – 2.2 percent

· Haverhill NH Labor Market Area – 2.2 percent

· Plymouth NH Labor Market Area – 2.2 percent

· New Hampshire portion of the Portsmouth NH-ME Metropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.2 percent

· Raymond NH Labor Market Area – 2.2 percent

· Thirteen areas recorded rates at or above the statewide not seasonally adjusted average of 2.3 percent:

· New Hampshire portion of the Dover-Durham NH-ME Metropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.3 percent

· Franklin NH Labor Market Area – 2.3 percent

· Manchester NH Metropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.3 percent

· New London NH Labor Market Area – 2.3 percent

· Peterborough NH Labor Market Area – 2.3 percent

· Keene NH Micropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.4 percent

· Laconia NH Micropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.4 percent

· Wolfeboro NH Labor Market Area – 2.4 percent

· Claremont, NH Micropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.5 percent

· Hillsborough NH Labor Market Area – 2.5 percent

· New Hampshire portion of the Nashua NH-MA New England City and Town Area Division – 2.5 percent

· New Hampshire portion of the Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury MA-NH New England City and Town Area Division – 2.7 percent

· Berlin NH Micropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.8 percent

· The New Hampshire portion of three interstate labor market areas contain only one town:

· New Hampshire portion of the Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford MA-NH New England City and Town Area Division (Pelham town) – 2.9 percent

· New Hampshire portion of the Brattleboro VT-NH Labor Market Area (Hinsdale town) – 3.0 percent

· New Hampshire portion of the Lawrence-Methuen-Salem MA-NH New England City and Town Area Division (Salem town) – 3.1 percent