New Castle County, DE monthly unemployment update

Stacker compiled statistics about the unemployment rate in New Castle County using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. County and metro unemployment rates are as of April 2023.

New Castle County had a 3.7% unemployment rate in April 2023, marking a 0.4 percentage point decrease from a month ago. Delaware reported a 4.2% unemployment rate in May, which is the fourth highest in the country. The national unemployment rate last month rose to 3.7% but is still 0.1 percentage points higher than last year.

The unemployment rate in the Philadelphia, PA metropolitan area was 2.9%, which is 0.8 percentage points lower than New Castle County. Philadelphia has the 417th lowest unemployment out of 887 metro and micro areas surveyed in the country.

Counties with the highest unemployment rate in Delaware
#1. Kent County: 4.5%
#2. Sussex County: 4.0%
#3. New Castle County: 3.7%