Unemployment rate rises almost full percentage point across Central Mass.
Photo | Grant Welker
Customers and workers inside B.T.'s Fried Chicken and BBQ in Worcester.
Unemployment rates across Central Massachusetts increased at the start of this year, with January unemployment higher in all three of the region’s metropolitan areas tracked by the state.
In the Greater Worcester metro area, unemployment was at 4.2% in January, as compared to 3.4% in December, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Tuesday by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.
For the Framingham area, unemployment was up to 3.4% in January, while it was at 2.7% in December.
The Leominster-Gardner area saw unemployment increase to 4.8% in January from 4.0% in December.
In all three areas, this continues a trend from last month’s release of the data, which showed slightly increased unemployment rates across the region.
January unemployment rates in Central Massachusetts remained lower than the same period last year despite their rising upward. In January 2022, unemployment was at 4.8% in the Worcester area, 3.9% in the Framingham area, and 5.4% in the Leominster-Gardner area.
The region is in line with the majority of the state with these increased rates; across Massachusetts, the unemployment rate rose from 3.3% in December to 4.1% in January.
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