Lexington's Unemployment Rate is Below 3 Percent. How Do Other Metro Areas Compare?
Every month the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases area specific wage and employment data for metro areas. Kentucky is in a unique position for a few reasons. A) There are nine different metro areas that have at least one Kentucky county in them, but only five are based in Kentucky. Those five, in order of size, are Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, Owensboro, and Elizabethtown. Four more regions, Cincinnati, OH, Evansville, IN, Huntington, WV, and Clarksville, TN all ha