Here is a list of the top ten metro areas with the lowest unemployment rates:
| 1 | Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area | 3.0 |
| 2 | Columbus, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area | 3.7 |
| 3 | Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area | 3.9 |
| 3 | Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area | 3.9 |
| 3 | Oklahoma City, OK Metropolitan Statistical Area | 3.9 |
| 6 | Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area | 4.3 |
| 6 | Pittsburgh, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area | 4.3 |
| 6 | San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area | 4.3 |
| 9 | Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area | 4.5 |
| 9 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area | 4.5 |
Source Bureau of Labor statistics data is for November 2014 and seasonally adjusted.
The largest employers in the metro area are government agencies . . like the state of Minnesota. I was just looking at some data about state of Minnesota employees on the transparency MN web site and discovered that some of the people who work for the state were hired in the 1950’s.
