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Map: Santa Monica's Unemployment Rate Drops in April

To see April unemployment rates in Santa Monica and nearby areas, click on towns on the map. The light green are the lowest, the dark red, the highest.

By Dan Abendschein 

Unemployment dipped in Santa Monica in April from 8.2 percent to 7.6 percent, according to recently released figures from the California Employment Development Department.

Statewide, unemployment dropped in April from 9.4 percent to 9 percent.

The state's non-seasonally adjusted rate was 8.5 percent in April -- seasonal adjustment accounts for seasonal shifts in labor such as increased construction and agricultural work in spring and summer -- only non-seasonally adjusted figures are available for individual cities.

How to Use the Map

You can see how every city in the state fared in April's report, by clicking on it in the above map. The blue cities are within 10 percent of the state average, the light green are have unemployment rates at least 50 percent lower than state average, and darker green cities are between.

Conversely, the bright red cities have unemployment rates at least 50 percent higher than state average and the lighter red cities are between.

-Patch Editor Jessica E. Davis contributed to this report.


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