For Release: Monday, August 10, 2020
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Unemployment in the Washington Area by County – June 2020
All Area Counties had Unemployment Rates Lower than the National Average
In June, Falls Church City, VA, had the lowest unemployment rate in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria,
DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area at 4.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported
today. Sheila Watkins, the Bureau’s regional commissioner, noted that Prince George’s County, MD, and
Manassas Park City, VA, each had an unemployment rate of 9.9 percent, the highest among the 22 counties
and equivalents that make up the metropolitan area. The rates for the remaining 19 counties and equivalents in
the area ranged from 9.7 percent in Fredericksburg City, VA, to 5.9 percent in Arlington County, VA.
Nationally, the unemployment rate was 11.2 percent. (See chart 1. The Technical Note at the end of this release
contains the metropolitan area definitions. All data in this release are not seasonally adjusted; accordingly,
over-the-year analysis is used throughout.)
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Unemployment rates in all of the 22 Washington-area counties and equivalents were higher in June 2020 than
in June 2019. Manassas Park City, VA, had the area’s largest over-the-year increase at 7.3 percentage points,
compared to the national rate increase of 7.4 points. Increases in the remaining local area counties ranged from
2.7 percentage points each in Falls Church City, VA, and Calvert County, MD, to 6.6 points in Prince William
County, VA. (See table A.)
Table A. Unemployment rates for the United States, the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
Metropolitan Statistical Area, and its components, not seasonally adjusted
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