Recent Labor Market Developments
Unemployment Rates for Utica-Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area
(not seasonally adjusted)
April 2025: 3.3.%
March 2025: 4.2%
April 2024: 3.7%
The unemployment rate in the Utica-Rome metro decreased from 3.7% in April 2024 to 3.3% in April 2025. The unemployment rate was 4.2% in March.
Change in Nonfarm Jobs since April 2024
For the 12-month period ending April 2025, the nonfarm job count in the Utica-Rome metro decreased -1,000, or -0.8%, to 121,800. Private sector employment declined -600, or -0.6%, to 92,000.
Job gains were posted in mining, logging, and construction (+200), leisure and hospitality (+100), other services (+100), and trade, transportation and utilities (+100).
Job losses occurred in manufacturing (-500), government (-400), private education and health services (-400), and professional and business services (-200).