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