Unemployment continued to rise in Virginia’s metro areas in June.
Nonetheless, jobless rates remain low. The Lynchburg area had the highest rate, 4 percent, while Northern Virginia was the lowest at 2.7 percent.
The Virginia Employment Commission reported on Wednesday that all 11 of the commonwealth’s metropolitan statistical areas saw their unemployment rates increase during the month.
June’s results reflect a pattern that emerged in May when eight MSAs saw rate increases while in three other areas the jobless numbers were unchanged from the previous month.
The rate increases seen in June ranged from three-tenths of a percentage point in Northern Virginia and the Staunton-Waynesboro area to eight-tenths of a point in the New River Valley.
