A new report issued by the state Department of Labor shows every town and city in Connecticut saw a drop in unemployment figures in 2015. Hartford continued to have the highest rate of joblessness.
The June 2016 edition of the Connecticut Economic Digest reports 132 cities and towns had jobless rates below the statewide figure of 5.6 percent (and Middletown matched the rate exactly).
Hartford’s unemployment rate was 10.4 percent. Roxbury had the lowest annual average unemployment rate of 3.3 percent.
Of the five largest cities with a 2010 Census population of 100,000 or more, Stamford, once again, had the lowest unemployment rate in 2015 of 4.6 percent. All five cities had year-over-year unemployment rate decreases, the largest of which occurred in Hartford (-1.8 percentage points).
Last year’s unemployment rates were also down in all but one town when compared with 2011, as the Connecticut economy ended its fifth year of employment recovery, the report said. Scotland was the only town to experience an increase in its unemployment rate, from 4.8 percent to 6.3 percent.
