Average Unemployment Rate in Illinois Metro Areas Higher than Midwest
Not Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rates
Metropolitan Area
June
2016
June
2015
Over-the-Year Change
Bloomington
5.4%
5.0%
0.4
Carbondale-Marion
6.1%
6.1%
0.0
Champaign-Urbana
5.3%
5.4%
-0.1
Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights
6.2%
6.1%
0.1
Danville
7.1%
7.0%
0.1
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL
5.6%
5.3%
0.3
Decatur
6.8%
7.1%
-0.3
Elgin
5.2%
5.5%
-0.3
Kankakee
6.1%
6.6%
-0.5
Lake-Kenosha, IL-WI
4.9%
5.1%
-0.2
Peoria
6.3%
6.2%
0.1
Rockford
6.3%
6.6%
-0.3
Springfield
4.7%
5.0%
-0.3
St. Louis (IL-Section)
5.7%
6.0%
-0.3
Illinois Statewide
6.0%
6.0%
0.0
* Data subject to revision.
CHICAGO–Eight of Illinois’ 14 metropolitan (metro) areas experienced decreases in their over-the-year unemployment rate and eight of the metro areas had increases in nonfarm jobs, according to... Read More.




