Unemployment numbers are down in the Manhattan area, with a metro area number of five percent for April of this year. That compares to 5.8 percent in March and 5.2 percent in april of last year. The metro area includes Riley, Pottawatomie and Geary counties. The Manhattan metro area continues to have the lowest unemployment rate when compared to other metro areas in the state. The next lowest was Lawrence metro including Douglas county with 5.2 percent.
The city of Manhattan had a 4.2 percent rate, also down from five percent the month before and 4.4 percent last year. The city of Manhattan also compares favorably with other cities in Kansas with 4.2 percent. Only three cities had lower rates including Leawood, Dodge City, and Garden City.
All area counties showed a decline in unemployment rates including Riley with 4.4 percent compared to 5.2 in April, Pottawatomie’s 4.6 percent was lower than 5.4 percent the month before, Clay County’s 4.1 percent was eight-tenths lower than in April, and Geary county which tends to have higher unemployment rates went down a whole percentage point from 7.7 to 6.7 in April.
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