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Unemployment Rates for the 100 Largest Cities and Their Suburbs, 1990, 2000 & Percent Change Ranked by Lowest Rate

 
2000
1990
% Chng NAPC
Member		 Initiatives
and
Interventions
  City ST Rank Value Rank Value
1 Lincoln    NE 1 3.8% 3 3.6% 6.3%
  Suburbs Excluding City   1 1.7% 1 1.9% -11.8%    
2 San Jose    CA 2 4.3% 12 5.6% -22.8%
  Suburbs Excluding City   14 3.5% 11 3.9% -10.2%    
3 Omaha    NE 3 4.3% 8 4.7% -8.6%
  Suburbs Excluding City   7 3.0% 7 3.5% -13.8%    
4 Austin    TX 4 4.4% 27 6.4% -32.0%
  Suburbs Excluding City   19 3.6% 45 5.3% -31.2%    
5 San Francisco    CA 5 4.6% 25 6.3% -26.7%
  Suburbs Excluding City   9 3.2% 15 4.0% -20.2%    
6 Colorado Springs    CO 6 4.6% 43 7.3% -36.9%
  Suburbs Excluding City   52 4.8% 69 7.2% -33.6%    
7 Madison    WI 7 4.8% 2 3.5% 35.4%
  Suburbs Excluding City   3 2.9% 3 2.8% 3.9%    
8 Columbus    OH 8 4.9% 17 5.9% -17.7%
  Suburbs Excluding City   11 3.3% 26 4.5% -26.6%    
9 Jacksonville    FL 9 5.1% 14 5.7% -11.5%
  Suburbs Excluding City   34 4.1% 32 4.8% -14.6%    
10 Pheonix/Mesa/Glendale/Scottsdale    AZ 10 5.1% 20 6.1% -17.3%
  Suburbs Excluding City   42 4.5% 60 6.3% -28.7%    
11 Seattle    WA 11 5.1% 9 4.9% 4.3%
  Suburbs Excluding City   41 4.5% 12 3.9% 13.7%    
12 Denver/Aurora    CO 12 5.2% 23 6.2% -16.4%
  Suburbs Excluding City   8 3.2% 31 4.7% -32.8%    
13 Norfolk/Va Beach/Chesapeake 1    VA 13 5.3% 15 5.8% -9.3%
  Suburbs Excluding City   68 6.2% 59 6.2% -1.3%    
14 Fort Worth/Arlington    TX 14 5.3% 31 6.5% -19.3%
  Suburbs Excluding City   26 3.8% 41 5.1% -25.5%    
15 Oklahoma City    OK 15 5.3% 40 7.2% -26.8%
  Suburbs Excluding City   43 4.5% 54 6.0% -25.4%    
16 Raleigh    NC 16 5.3% 4 4.0% 32.7%
  Suburbs Excluding City   21 3.7% 9 3.6% 2.8%    
17 Wichita    KS 17 5.3% 16 5.9% -9.6%
  Suburbs Excluding City   15 3.5% 10 3.8% -9.0%    
18 Nashville    TN 18 5.3% 11 5.1% 4.3%
  Suburbs Excluding City   25 3.8% 27 4.6% -16.9%    
19 Lexington    KY 19 5.4% 7 4.6% 15.5%
  Suburbs Excluding City   36 4.3% 53 5.7% -25.2%    
20 Tulsa    OK 20 5.4% 19 6.1% -10.9%
  Suburbs Excluding City   27 3.9% 50 5.4% -29.1%    
21 Charlotte    NC 21 5.5% 5 4.2% 32.4%
  Suburbs Excluding City   56 5.0% 13 3.9% 28.0%    
22 Indianapolis    IN 22 5.5% 13 5.7% -2.1%
  Suburbs Excluding City   12 3.3% 17 4.0% -18.3%    
23 Dallas/Garland/Irving/Plano 2    TX 23 5.7% 30 6.5% -12.2%
  Suburbs Excluding City   32 4.0% 36 5.0% -18.5%    
24 Minneapolis/St. Paul    MN 24 5.7% 28 6.4% -10.7%
  Suburbs Excluding City   4 2.9% 18 4.1% -29.3%    
25 Albuquerque    NM 25 5.8% 26 6.4% -10.0%
  Suburbs Excluding City   69 6.2% 75 7.6% -19.1%    
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Footnotes
1 Norfolk/Virginia Beach/Chesapeake, VA was Norfolk/Virginia Beach/Newport News, VA MSA Excluding City in 1980
2 Dallas/Garland/Irving/Plano, TX was Dallas/Garland, TX MSA Excluding City in 1980

Notes
* Unemployment rates are calculated for civilians 16 years old and over in the labor force.
* Suburbs refers to the MSA excluding the city(ies).
* Where two or more cities are shown together, they belong to the same Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). In these cases, the city data were combined to create a single urban entity.
* Tabulations are based on numbers with more decimal places than shown.
* Due to naming conventions and other reasons, MSA names may have changed over time.
* Due to Land Annexation and other reasons, MSA size may have changed over time.

Source
* Andrulis, Dennis, and Goodman, Nanette. Social Change and Health Landscape of Urban and Suburban America. Health Forum, Inc., 1999 and from the Suny Downstate Medical Center website: http://www.downstate.edu/urbansoc_healthdata/Urban Center Website/web design2/Home Page.htm
* Tabulations based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 1980, 1990, 2000.
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