Greater Worcester unemployment fell again in April
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Greater Worcester's unemployment rate dipped to 4.8% in April.
Greater Worcester’s unemployment rate continued to dip in April, further reversing the region’s six-month trend of steadily climbing rates.
The unadjusted unemployment rate in Greater Worcester fell 0.3 percentage points in April, from 5.1% in March to 4.8%. The region’s figure hovered just above the state’s average unemployment rate, which dipped last month by 0.4 percentage points to 4.6%, according to the data released Tuesday by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, using information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Though Greater Worcester saw a decrease in unemployment in April, the region’s rate was still significantly higher than in April 2024, when unemployment sat at 3.5%.
Since January 2025, the EOLWD has condensed the individual metropolitan areas it reports unemployment figures for to reflect new Census delineations, according to the BLS. Because of this, only Greater Worcester’s isolated rates are provided, while Framingham’s are combined with other Middlesex County communities. Athol and Leominster-Gardner are now omitted.
Greater Framingham’s unemployment followed suit with Greater Worcester and the state, dipping 0.3 percentage points in April to a rate of 4.2%. Like the Worcester area, Greater Framingham’s score was considerably higher than in April 2024, when its unemployment rate was 3.1%.
Though no longer the lowest-scoring region in Massachusetts, Greater Framingham tied for the second lowest rate in the state along with the Amherst Town-Northampton and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro areas.
At 4.1%, the Greenfield micropolitan area had the lowest unemployment rate in April while the unemployment rate in the Nantucket micropolitan area once again far surpassed any region in the state, with a rate of 8.6%.
Mica Kanner-Mascolo is a staff writer at Worcester Business Journal, who primarily covers the healthcare and diversity, equity, and inclusion industries.
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