Michigan’s April unemployment rates by region

Michigan’s major labor market areas, their seasonally unadjusted jobless rates for April, followed by March:

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- Michigan, 7.3 percent, compared with 8 percent.

- Ann Arbor, 4.8 percent, compared with 5.2 percent.

- Battle Creek, 6 percent, compared with 7 percent.

- Bay City, 7.7 percent, compared with 9.1 percent.

- Detroit-Warren-Livonia, 7.9 percent, compared with 8.3 percent.

- Flint, 7.8 percent, compared with 9 percent.

- Grand Rapids-Wyoming, 5.1 percent, compared with 6 percent.

- Holland-Grand Haven, 5 percent, compared with 6 percent.

- Jackson, 7.2 percent, compared with 8.2 percent.

- Kalamazoo-Portage, 7 percent, compared with 6 percent.

- Lansing-East Lansing, 6.1 percent, compared with 6.4 percent.

- Monroe, 7.4 percent, compared with 7.2 percent.

- Muskegon-Norton Shores, 6.9 percent, compared with 7.9 percent.

- Niles-Benton Harbor, 6.8 percent, compared with 8.2 percent.

- Saginaw-Saginaw Township North, 7.5 percent, compared with 8.7 percent.

- Upper Peninsula, 9.1 percent, compared with 10.3 percent.

- Northeast Lower Michigan, 11.2 percent, compared with 13.5 percent.

- Northwest Lower Michigan, 9 percent, compared with 10.3 percent.

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Source: Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget.