As of late July, there were 1,471 cases for every 100,000 people in the area, compared to 1,309 cases per 100,000 people nationwide.With an unemployment rate of 15.9%, the Merced, California, metro area has one of the worst job markets in the United States. Here is a look at the worst states in which to be unemployed.
Nationwide, fewer than one in five workers are employed in such industries. Each of the 33 metro areas on this list has a jobless rate over 15%. East Stroudsburg, PA • Unemployment rate, June 2020: 18.0% • Year-to-date employment change: -15.5% • Cumulative COVID-19 cases to date: 1,557 (929 per 100,000 people) • Poverty rate: 12.3% • Population: 169,507 Leading up to the pandemic, more than one in every four workers in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania were employed in industries at high-risk of slowdown due to COVID-19, such as tourism and transportation and warehousing.
Partially as a result, about 34,000 jobs in the metro area -- or more than one in every 10 -- have disappeared so far this year. We only listed the 33 U.S. metro areas with unemployment rates above 15.0%.In the case of a tie, the metro area that had a larger percentage decline in overall employment from January to June 2020 was ranked lower. The number of people working in the metro area has fallen by nearly 20% since the beginning of the year. QuickFacts data are derived from: Population Estimates, American Community Survey, Census of Population and Housing, Current Population Survey, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, State and County Housing Unit Estimates, County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics, Economic Census, Survey of Business Owners, Building Permits. As recently as April, 25.6% of the metro area labor force was unemployed.At the beginning of the year, before the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic were felt in the United States, Fresno had one of the worst job markets in the country. Still, the metro area's jobless rate is a marked improvement from what it was in the early weeks of the pandemic. Click the Quick Info The vintage year (e.g., V2019) refers to the final year of the series (2010 thru 2019). Since January, 27.8% of jobs in Atlantic City have disappeared. The leisure and hospitality sector accounts for about one-third of all jobs in the metro area. As of late July, there were 1,526 cases of the novel coronavirus in Modesto for every 100,000 people, more than the 1,309 per 100,000 national concentration.Scranton, one of two Pennsylvania metro areas with an unemployment rate above 15%, has been economically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic more than most American cities. In January 2020, before COVID-19 had hit most of the country, there were about 2.8 million people working in the Boston metro area. Mass layoffs and business closures in recent months have driven the metro area's unemployment rate up to 17.7% from just 4% in January.While Detroit's job market ranks among the worst in the country, it has improved markedly in recent weeks. Flint's January unemployment rate of 4.6% was well above the 3.6% national rate.The 16.7% unemployment rate in Rockford, Illinois, is among the highest of any U.S. metro area.
In Muskegon, 15.8% of the population lives below the poverty line, compared to 13.1% of Americans nationwide.The unemployment rate in the Visalia-Porterville metro area stands at 17.8%, higher than in all but a handful of other U.S. metropolitan areas. Over the same period, the metro area's unemployment rate jumped from 3.4% to 17.9%, one of the largest percentage point increases in the country. The metro area is one of several in Massachusetts with an economy that has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, the metro area is one of only four nationwide where more than one in every five members of the labor force are out of work.Ocean City is one of only three metro areas nationwide where more than one in every four members of the labor force are out of work. Over the same period, the metro area's unemployment rate jumped from 6.5% to 15.2%.Americans with no education beyond high school are nearly twice as likely to be unemployed as those with a bachelor's degree. In May 2020, the area's unemployment rate stood at 23.2%.The unemployment rate in Muskegon, Michigan, has improved considerably in recent months, falling from 29.8% in April to 17.8% in June. The economic crisis is the result of the COVID-19 pandemic – a major public health crisis. Currently, the jobless rate in the metropolitan area stands at 16.4%, well above the 11.1% national rate. Since January, Worcester has shed over 55,000 jobs.COVID-19 has also taken a considerable toll on public health in Worcester. Over the same period, the unemployment rate spiked from just 3.8% to a staggering 17.9%.Still, as is the case in much of the country, Las Vegas's job market does appear to be improving. Springfield Mall Located on Baltimore Pike off I-476 exit 3 1250 Baltimore Pike Springfield, PA 19064 Latitude 39.915395 Longitude -75.352648 Trade Area Demographics Population 986,691 Households 376,511 Average HHI $86,228 % of Households with incomes >75K 38.8% Average Home Value $299,560 Median Age 37.5 Since January, more than 5,000 jobs have disappeared in the city, nearly one in every 10.While Battle Creek has one of the worst unemployment crises in the country, the metro area's job market appears to be improving. Frequently requested statistics for: Springfield city, Massachusetts. At the beginning of the year, unemployment stood at just 3.9% in the southern Michigan metro area.