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Map: Cerritos, Artesia Unemployment Rates Remain Below State Average

To see April unemployment rates across the state click on towns on the map below. The light green are the lowest, the dark red, the highest.

By John Schreiber 

Unemployment dipped in California in April from 9.4 percent to 9 percent while Cerritos and Artesia's jobless rate remained below state average, according to recently released figures from the California Employment Development Department.

In Cerritos the non-seasonally adjusted jobless rate dropped from 5.4 percent in March to 5 percent in April. In Artesia the non-seasonally adjusted jobless rate went from 7.2 percent in March to 6.7 percent in April. Both cities remain under the statewide unemployment rates. 

The state's non-seasonally adjusted rate was 8.5 percent in April - seasonal adjustment accounts for seasonal shifts in labor such as increased construction and agricultural work in spring and summer - only non-seasonally adjusted figures are available for individual cities.

How to Use the Map

You can see how every city in the state fared in April's report, by clicking on it in the above map.  The blue cities are within 10 percent of the state average, the light green are have unemployment rates at least 50 percent lower than state average, and darker green cities are between.

Conversely, the bright red cities have unemployment rates at least 50 percent higher than state average and the lighter red cities are between.


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