New Hampshire Local Area Unemployment Statistics for October 2019

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New Hampshire Local Area Unemployment Statistics for October 2019

New Hampshire Local Area Unemployment Statistics Highlights – October 2019 Estimates (Note: Rates are not seasonally adjusted)

The October 2019 not seasonally adjusted State unemployment rate was 2.3 percent. This was unchanged from the September rate. The October 2018 rate was 2.0 percent.

New Hampshire’s October 2019 not seasonally adjusted labor force estimates show 11,850 more employed and 2,720 more unemployed than in October 2018 for a year-to-year net gain in the labor force of 14,570.

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

  • New Hampshire portion of the Lebanon NH-VT Micropolitan New England City and Town Area – 1.9 percent
  • Plymouth NH Labor Market Area – 1.9 percent
  • Concord NH Micropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.0 percent
  • New Hampshire portion of the Littleton NH-VT Labor Market Area – 2.0 percent
  • Newport NH Labor Market Area – 2.0 percent
  • Charlestown NH Labor Market Area – 2.1 percent
  • New Hampshire portion of the Colebrook NH-VT Labor Market Area – 2.1 percent
  • New Hampshire portion of the Conway NH-ME Labor Market Area – 2.1 percent
  • New Hampshire portion of the Dover-Durham NH-ME Metropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.1 percent
  • Haverhill NH Labor Market Area – 2.1 percent
  • Meredith NH Labor Market Area – 2.1 percent
  • New London NH Labor Market Area – 2.1 percent
  • Belmont NH Labor Market Area – 2.2 percent
  • Manchester NH Metropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.2 percent
  • New Hampshire portion of the Portsmouth NH-ME Metropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.2 percent

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

  • Keene NH Micropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.3 percent
  • Peterborough NH Labor Market Area – 2.3 percent
  • Raymond NH Labor Market Area – 2.3 percent
  • Franklin NH Labor Market Area – 2.4 percent
  • Hillsborough NH Labor Market Area – 2.4 percent
  • Claremont, NH Micropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.5 percent
  • Laconia NH Micropolitan New England City and Town Area – 2.5 percent
  • New Hampshire portion of the Nashua NH-MA New England City and Town Area Division – 2.5 percent
  • Wolfeboro NH Labor Market Area – 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 – 2.9 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 Lawrence-Methuen-Salem MA-NH New England City and Town Area Division (Salem town) – 3.0 percent
  • New Hampshire portion of the Brattleboro VT-NH Labor Market Area (Hinsdale town) – 3.1 percent

You can download the New Hampshire Local Area Unemployment Statistics for October 2019 source file.