St. Cloud Metro Area Unemployment Drops in September
October 23, 2012 9:57 AM 
ST. CLOUD – The unemployment rate in the St. Cloud metro area dropped last month.
The Department of Employment and Economic Development says our unemployment rate is now at 5.1%, down from the 5.5% we had in August.
This is the lowest rate we’ve had for the month of September since before the recession, when it was 4.3% in September 2007.
We’re doing better than the state as a whole, which has an unemployment rate of 5.8%. The U.S. rate is 7.8%.
Unemployment rates for Minnesota’s metro areas:
Rochester – 4.4%
Mankato – 4.6%
St. Cloud – 5.1%
Twin Cities – 5.3%
Duluth – 6.1%
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