Yates and Ontario counties tied for the second-lowest rate of unemployment for all of New York state in November. Both counties recorded unemployment at 2.8 percent. Only Columbia County was lower at 2.7 percent.
Elsewhere in the Finger Lakes, Tompkins County’s unemployment last month was 3 percent, Seneca and Cayuga Counties checked in at 3.2 percent, and Schuyler and Steuben Counties at 3.7 percent.
New York’s unemployment rate statewide held at 4.4 percent for the second straight month.
According to the State Department of Labor, rates are calculated using methods prescribed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The State’s area unemployment rates rely in part on the results of the Current Population Survey, which contacts approximately 3,100 households in New York State each month.
