Kansas City, Missouri Unemployment

The BLS reported that the unemployment rate for Kansas City fell 0.2 percentage points in December 2011 to 7.9%. For the same month, the metro unemployment rate was 0.1 percentage points lower than the Missouri rate. The unemployment rate in Kansas City peaked in December 2009 at 9.3% and is now 1.4 percentage points lower. You can also compare Kansas City unemployment with unemployment in other cities.

Unemployment Rate	December 2011	Month/Month	Year/Year
National	8.5%	-0.2	-0.9
Missouri	8.0%	-0.2	-1.6
Kansas City	7.9%	-0.2	-1.3

Note: Metro level data is now seasonally adjusted.¹ All comparisons are made with December 2011 data as January metro level unemployment data has not yet been released.

Unemployment Rate: Kansas City, Missouri, National

Note: Recessions shown in gray.

Kansas City, Missouri Unemployed

The number of people unemployed in Kansas City peaked in January 2010 at 96,613. There are now 14,181 fewer people unemployed in the metropolitan area. Kansas City employment and jobs data (including jobs lost/gained in Kansas City, Missouri) is also available.

Unemployed Persons	December 2011	Month/Month	Year/Year
Kansas City	82,432	-1,890	-12,208

Number of Unemployed Persons

Kansas City, Missouri Unemployment History

Date	National Unemployment Rate	Missouri Unemployment Rate	Kansas City Unemployment Rate	Kansas City Unemployed
January 2012	8.3%	—	—	—
December 2011	8.5%	8.0%	7.9%	82,432
November 2011	8.7%	8.2%	8.1%	84,322
October 2011	8.9%	8.5%	8.3%	86,281
September 2011	9.0%	8.7%	8.4%	86,573
August 2011	9.1%	8.8%	8.4%	86,722
July 2011	9.1%	8.7%	8.3%	85,702
June 2011	9.1%	8.8%	8.4%	87,320
May 2011	9.0%	8.9%	8.5%	88,241
April 2011	9.0%	8.9%	8.7%	89,843
March 2011	8.9%	9.1%	8.8%	91,721
February 2011	9.0%	9.4%	9.0%	93,788
January 2011	9.1%	9.5%	9.2%	95,013