Press Release: Metro East Highlights. The September 2023 unemployment rate for the Illinois Section of the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area was 4.8 percent.
Press Release: SPRINGFIELD – Over-the-year, total nonfarm jobs increased in eleven metropolitan areas and decreased in three for the year ending September 2023, according to data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Illinois Department of Employment Security (DES).