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Home | News | Virginia unemployment rate falls in October

Virginia's seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate dropped from 6.5 percent in September to 6.3 percent in October, which is its lowest rate in 2009, according to the Associated Press. The unemployment rate has been declining since June, when it reached 7.3 percent.

The number of jobless workers decreased by 8,400 to 270,100 in October as schools increased employment. However, November's unemployment numbers are expected to increase as more people applied for holiday jobs. Still, the unemployment rate is expected to fall again in December as people are hired for holiday jobs.

Virginia's unemployment rate is well below the national unemployment rate, and employment improved in all of the state's 10 metropolitan areas.

Arlington County had the lowest unemployment rate at 3.9 percent. Martinsville had the state's highest unemployment rate at 19.7 percent.

12/7/2009

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