Malden Unemployment Rate Falls to 6.1 Percent in February
The state's city-to-city unemployment rates for February 2012.
The national unemployment rate has been a hot topics since the start of the Great Recession.
At 6.9 percent, Massachusetts as a whole has a lower unemployment rate than the nation (8.3%). The rates have been dropping at an excrutiatingly slow pace, which is good news. But the national and state level rates don't tell the whole story.
Unemployment numbers for cities and towns are the last figures released for a given month. While we know Massachusetts' March unemployment rate, we only have February numbers for cities and towns.
The chart below has the February unemployment numbers for Malden and the surrounding communities. Malden has a rate comparable with most of its neighbors.
The March figures for individual cities and towns comes out in two weeks. Patch will add the new figures to the chart and publish them once they're released.
| Community |
Feb. 2012 |
Jan. 2012 |
| Arlington |
4.2% | 4.3% |
| Boston | 6.6% | 7.1% |
| Cambridge | 4.1% | 4.3% |
| Chelsea | 10.4% | 11.1% |
| Everett | 7.6% | 7.8% |
| Lynnfield | 5.2% | 5% |
| Malden | 6.1% | 6.4% |
| Medford | 6% | 6.2% |
| Melrose | 5% | 5.2% |
| Reading | 5.2% | 5.1% |
| Revere | 8.6% | 8.9% |
| Saugus | 6.9% | 7.1% |
| Somerville | 4.8% | 5% |
| Stoneham | 6.1% | 6.5% |
| Wakefield | 6.1% | 6% |
| Winchester | 4.6% | 4.6% |
| Winthrop | 6.6% | 7.3% |
| Woburn | 6.6% | 6.3% |
