ALBANY – The state’s unemployment rate in August was 4.4 percent and every county in the Hudson Valley/Catskills region was well below that, according to the State Labor Department.
Columbia County scored the lowest with 3.0 percent rate of joblessness, while Greene County, directly across the Hudson River, had the highest level at 3.8 percent, the same rate as Delaware County.
Sullivan County, with 3.1 percent unemployment, came in second lowest while Dutchess, Putnam, and Rockland each scored 3.3 percent rates of joblessness.
At 3.5 percent joblessness were Orange, Ulster, and Westchester counties.
| COUNTY | AUGUST 2023 | JULY 2023 | AUGUST 2022 |
| Columbia | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.0 |
| Delaware | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
| Greene | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.8 |
| Orange | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
| Putnam | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.2 |
| Rockland | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.2 |
| Sullivan | 3.1 | 2.7 | 3.2 |
| Ulster | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
| Westchester | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
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