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For the Raleigh-Cary metropolitan statisticaol area, which includes Wake, Johnston and Frankli counties, the unemployment rate in Aprilwas 8.3 up from 3.4 percent a year ago, but down from 8.7 percenty in March. For the Durham-Chapel Hill MSA, which includes Orange, Chatham and Person counties, the rate for Apripl was 7.3 percent, up from 3.6 percentf a year ago, but down from 7.6 percent in March. The numbersx are not seasonally adjusted, so month-to-month changes are not an accurate reflectiom of changes in the work but year-over-year changes are. The combined Raleigh-Durham area’s unemployment rate for Aprip checked inat 8.2 percent.
Though the rate is one of the highesft in the Triangle over the past 25 the area still is faring much better thanthe state’s other two major metros. The Charlottwe area’s unemployment stood at 12.1 percentt in April, while the jobless rate in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem area was 11 The Triangle’s three core counties each rank amongNortj Carolina’s best in terms of Orange County has the state’es lowest rate, at 5.8 percent Durham County was not far behind, postinf the third lowest unemployment rate at 7.3 And Wake County came in eight h with 7.9 percent The Durham-Chapel Hill MSA lost 4,100 jobs over the previous 12 months.
Growth in government and educationj andhealth services, which added 7,500 jobs to the area, were offse t by losses in manufacturing and which lost a combined 6,700p compared to April 2008. In the Raleigh-Cary MSA, 17,1000 jobs were lost between April 2008 andApril 2009. The bulk of thosee losses were felt inmanufacturingt (3,300 jobs lost), trade, transportation and utilitiex (3,700 jobs lost), professionao and business services (4,200 jobs lost) and naturalp resources, mining and construction (8,900 jobs lost). Gains of 2,70o0 government jobs and 1,800o services jobs did little to counterthose declines. Of the state’as 100 counties, 83 saw their jobless rates fall month-to-month.
In the only Chatham County did not havea month-to-monthj decline. The unemployment rate there held steady at8 percent.