Metro Boston Unemployment Level Heat Map - January 2021

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Unemployment Rates for Selected Locations in Metro Boston
Place Name	Current Rate	Previous Month Rate	6 Months Ago	1 Year Ago
Abington	6.10%	6.70%	19.40%	2.70%
Acton	5.00%	5.30%	10.90%	1.60%
Amesbury Town	5.30%	5.70%	16.60%	1.80%
Andover	5.20%	5.80%	12.60%	1.80%
Aquinnah	7.50%	6.80%	7.80%	3.20%
Arlington	5.00%	5.50%	10.90%	1.30%
Ashburnham	5.50%	5.70%	15.00%	2.30%
Ashby	4.30%	4.60%	16.20%	1.90%
Ashland	5.00%	5.40%	14.60%	1.80%
Athol	6.40%	6.90%	16.90%	3.50%
Auburn	5.60%	5.60%	14.90%	2.40%
Avon	6.50%	7.50%	19.90%	2.60%
Ayer	5.60%	5.80%	17.60%	2.50%
Barnstable County	6.80%	6.80%	18.90%	3.80%
Barnstable Town	6.30%	6.90%	19.70%	3.30%
Barre	5.40%	5.60%	16.20%	3.40%
Bedford	5.60%	5.80%	12.70%	1.60%
Bellingham	5.60%	5.70%	15.50%	2.50%
Belmont	5.40%	5.60%	11.40%	1.60%
Berlin	5.00%	5.30%	12.60%	1.90%
Beverly	5.50%	6.20%	15.80%	1.90%
Billerica	5.10%	5.50%	17.40%	2.10%
Blackstone	5.30%	5.70%	17.00%	2.50%
Bolton	4.20%	5.20%	10.40%	1.70%
Boston	6.60%	7.70%	19.30%	2.00%
Bourne	5.90%	6.60%	19.10%	3.10%
Boxborough	4.60%	4.50%	10.70%	1.60%
Boxford	4.80%	5.60%	12.50%	1.60%
Boylston	4.30%	6.00%	13.70%	2.10%
Braintree Town	5.60%	6.50%	19.90%	1.90%
Brewster	5.80%	5.80%	15.70%	3.20%
Bridgewater	5.60%	5.90%	17.40%	2.00%
Brockton	9.10%	10.50%	25.70%	3.00%
Brookfield	5.70%	5.60%	15.00%	2.80%
Brookline	4.70%	5.40%	10.30%	1.20%
Burlington	4.90%	5.50%	13.30%	1.60%
Cambridge	4.30%	4.70%	10.20%	1.30%
Canton	6.00%	6.60%	16.50%	2.10%
Carlisle	6.00%	6.10%	9.60%	1.70%
Carver	5.40%	5.90%	18.00%	2.80%
Charlton	4.50%	4.80%	14.60%	2.20%
Chatham	6.10%	6.30%	15.50%	3.50%
Chelmsford	5.60%	5.60%	14.80%	1.90%
Chelsea	7.80%	8.90%	24.80%	2.40%
Chilmark	4.90%	4.00%	11.10%	2.60%
Clinton	5.90%	6.40%	18.20%	3.10%
Cohasset	4.60%	5.60%	11.90%	1.80%
Concord	5.60%	7.50%	10.00%	1.40%
Danvers	5.50%	6.40%	18.00%	2.00%
Dedham	6.20%	6.90%	16.50%	2.00%
Dennis	7.60%	7.00%	20.20%	4.40%
Douglas	4.90%	4.90%	14.10%	2.20%
Dover	5.30%	6.80%	9.00%	1.70%
Dracut	5.60%	6.40%	17.80%	2.20%
Dudley	5.20%	6.10%	16.60%	2.50%
Dukes County	7.20%	5.50%	13.90%	4.60%
Dunstable	4.80%	4.60%	12.10%	1.70%
Duxbury	6.00%	7.40%	15.00%	2.10%
East Bridgewater	5.70%	6.00%	17.50%	2.30%
East Brookfield	4.40%	5.00%	14.30%	2.10%
Eastham	11.60%	5.90%	16.80%	6.10%
Edgartown	8.10%	6.40%	15.70%	5.50%
Essex	4.80%	5.00%	12.90%	2.00%
Essex County	6.80%	7.60%	19.90%	2.40%
Everett	7.30%	8.00%	23.00%	1.90%
Falmouth	6.80%	7.50%	18.70%	3.10%
Fitchburg	8.80%	9.60%	22.90%	3.60%
Foxborough	6.10%	6.20%	17.20%	2.30%
Framingham	2.60%	2.60%	2.60%	2.40%
Franklin Town	6.40%	6.30%	15.60%	2.10%
Gardner	7.50%	7.70%	20.40%	3.20%
Georgetown	4.90%	5.40%	14.60%	1.60%
Gloucester	6.40%	6.40%	18.50%	3.30%
Gosnold	0.00%	0.00%	2.50%	0.00%
Grafton	5.10%	6.60%	14.50%	2.00%
Groton	4.90%	5.10%	11.90%	1.60%
Groveland	4.80%	5.60%	15.20%	1.60%
Halifax	6.70%	6.50%	18.50%	2.70%
Hamilton	5.20%	5.50%	11.50%	1.70%
Hampton	4.70%	4.80%	10.70%	2.60%
Hanover	5.30%	5.90%	16.90%	1.90%
Hanson	5.60%	5.80%	17.30%	2.30%
Hardwick	4.10%	4.60%	13.40%	2.10%
Harvard	5.20%	4.90%	10.40%	1.90%
Harwich	7.40%	7.30%	18.80%	3.60%
Haverhill	7.00%	7.70%	20.50%	2.80%
Hingham	5.60%	6.70%	12.40%	1.90%
Holbrook	6.70%	7.40%	21.70%	2.70%
Holden	5.30%	5.60%	13.90%	2.00%
Holliston	8.00%	6.00%	14.00%	1.80%
Hopedale	6.00%	7.00%	16.80%	2.90%
Hopkinton	5.00%	5.60%	12.50%	1.90%
Hubbardston	4.00%	4.20%	12.20%	2.40%
Hudson	5.60%	5.80%	16.00%	2.40%
Hull	6.60%	6.40%	17.80%	2.60%
Ipswich	4.90%	5.70%	14.10%	2.10%
Kingston	5.50%	6.20%	18.00%	2.50%
Lakeville	5.50%	5.60%	16.60%	2.10%
Lancaster	4.60%	5.30%	13.60%	1.80%
Lawrence	12.40%	13.90%	33.10%	4.50%
Leicester	5.70%	5.80%	15.50%	2.10%
Leominster	6.60%	7.70%	19.70%	2.90%
Lexington	5.20%	7.00%	9.70%	1.50%
Lincoln	5.20%	5.80%	9.80%	1.70%
Littleton	4.30%	5.60%	12.10%	1.90%
Lowell	7.40%	7.90%	20.90%	2.80%
Lunenburg	5.50%	5.80%	15.20%	2.50%
Lynn	8.50%	9.50%	25.40%	2.50%
Lynnfield	6.10%	6.10%	14.20%	1.60%
Malden	6.90%	7.90%	24.30%	2.00%
Manchester-by-the-Sea	5.00%	5.80%	13.40%	1.50%
Marblehead	6.00%	7.70%	13.20%	2.00%
Marion	5.70%	6.90%	15.50%	2.30%
Marlborough	5.10%	5.90%	16.20%	2.30%
Marshfield	5.60%	5.80%	15.50%	2.10%
Mashpee	6.70%	7.00%	19.00%	3.40%
Mattapoisett	6.50%	6.20%	15.90%	2.40%
Maynard	6.00%	5.80%	13.70%	2.10%
Medfield	5.40%	7.50%	12.60%	1.60%
Medford	5.60%	6.10%	16.50%	1.80%
Medway	5.70%	5.70%	14.50%	2.10%
Melrose	5.50%	6.20%	14.50%	1.60%
Mendon	6.10%	7.80%	16.90%	2.10%
Merrimac	5.20%	5.30%	14.80%	1.90%
Methuen Town	7.50%	7.90%	21.00%	2.60%
Middleborough	5.50%	6.20%	18.90%	2.60%
Middleton	5.30%	6.60%	17.00%	1.90%
Milford	5.40%	5.80%	16.50%	2.50%
Millbury	4.90%	5.50%	15.90%	2.60%
Millis	5.90%	6.20%	17.20%	2.10%
Millville	5.00%	5.40%	16.70%	3.40%
Milton	6.60%	7.00%	14.70%	1.70%
Nahant	5.10%	6.40%	16.40%	1.80%
Nantucket	6.60%	5.30%	13.90%	5.40%
Nantucket County	6.60%	5.30%	13.90%	5.40%
Natick	4.80%	5.30%	14.00%	1.60%
Needham	5.20%	6.70%	11.10%	1.50%
New Braintree	5.50%	5.30%	14.20%	3.40%
Newbury	5.40%	6.20%	14.20%	2.00%
Newburyport	5.50%	6.00%	13.50%	2.10%
Newton	5.40%	6.10%	11.40%	1.50%
Norfolk	5.60%	5.70%	13.90%	1.90%
Norfolk County	6.00%	6.70%	17.20%	2.00%
North Andover	5.70%	5.90%	14.80%	1.90%
North Brookfield	4.80%	5.10%	15.70%	2.50%
North Reading	5.40%	5.90%	15.30%	1.60%
Northborough	5.30%	6.00%	14.10%	2.10%
Northbridge	5.60%	6.30%	15.80%	2.80%
Norwell	6.00%	6.50%	15.50%	1.90%
Norwood	6.70%	6.90%	17.40%	2.00%
Oak Bluffs	6.00%	4.30%	12.20%	5.10%
Oakham	4.50%	5.10%	13.70%	3.50%
Orleans	5.70%	5.70%	17.40%	3.10%
Oxford	5.50%	5.70%	15.50%	2.20%
Paxton	5.20%	5.80%	13.90%	2.20%
Peabody	6.00%	6.90%	19.80%	2.10%
Pembroke	5.70%	6.20%	17.30%	2.40%
Pepperell	4.40%	4.80%	13.60%	2.00%
Petersham	4.70%	6.40%	11.80%	2.20%
Phillipston	4.00%	4.70%	15.90%	1.80%
Plainville	5.70%	6.20%	17.00%	2.30%
Plymouth	6.20%	6.30%	18.40%	2.80%
Plymouth County	6.50%	7.00%	19.00%	2.50%
Plympton	4.70%	5.40%	16.70%	2.70%
Princeton	4.90%	5.10%	13.50%	2.50%
Provincetown	12.70%	6.30%	23.00%	15.10%
Quincy	6.40%	7.30%	23.60%	2.10%
Randolph	7.90%	9.40%	25.10%	2.50%
Reading	5.80%	6.20%	14.30%	1.40%
Revere	8.30%	9.30%	28.00%	2.40%
Rochester	4.60%	5.30%	15.90%	2.50%
Rockingham County	3.60%	4.00%	9.60%	2.50%
Rockland	6.20%	6.60%	20.50%	2.60%
Rockport	5.80%	6.60%	16.00%	3.30%
Rowley	5.10%	5.50%	15.80%	2.40%
Royalston	5.10%	4.80%	11.50%	3.00%
Rutland	5.50%	5.60%	14.10%	2.50%
Salem	6.80%	7.40%	20.40%	2.20%
Salisbury	5.70%	5.90%	17.80%	2.60%
Sandwich	5.70%	6.10%	17.00%	2.80%
Saugus	6.40%	7.50%	21.70%	2.30%
Scituate	5.80%	6.60%	15.20%	2.10%
Sharon	4.80%	5.40%	11.50%	1.60%
Sherborn	5.10%	5.50%	10.50%	1.20%
Shirley	6.00%	6.00%	18.70%	2.60%
Shrewsbury	5.00%	6.30%	13.60%	1.90%
Somerville	4.70%	5.00%	13.80%	1.40%
Southborough	5.80%	7.10%	13.10%	1.70%
Southbridge Town	8.20%	9.10%	22.90%	3.60%
Spencer	6.80%	6.70%	17.70%	3.20%
Sterling	5.40%	5.50%	14.20%	2.50%
Stoneham	5.70%	6.20%	16.80%	1.80%
Stoughton	6.10%	7.00%	19.30%	2.30%
Stow	5.90%	6.00%	11.70%	1.90%
Sturbridge	5.30%	5.90%	15.70%	2.70%
Sudbury	5.00%	6.60%	10.70%	1.70%
Suffolk County	6.80%	7.80%	20.30%	2.00%
Sutton	4.50%	5.30%	13.70%	2.10%
Swampscott	5.80%	6.80%	15.30%	1.80%
Templeton	5.60%	6.00%	15.70%	2.20%
Tewksbury	5.30%	6.10%	17.20%	2.00%
Tisbury	10.40%	7.80%	19.00%	5.40%
Topsfield	5.50%	5.80%	11.70%	1.50%
Townsend	5.30%	5.60%	15.50%	1.90%
Truro	9.00%	6.00%	18.20%	11.50%
Tyngsborough	5.40%	5.90%	15.10%	2.30%
Upton	5.70%	5.30%	14.30%	2.10%
Uxbridge	5.30%	5.50%	15.50%	2.30%
Wakefield	5.30%	6.00%	15.90%	1.80%
Walpole	6.10%	6.30%	16.00%	2.00%
Waltham	5.20%	5.50%	14.30%	1.90%
Wareham	6.70%	7.30%	20.00%	3.00%
Warren	5.30%	5.20%	16.40%	3.50%
Watertown Town	5.10%	5.80%	14.10%	1.50%
Wayland	5.40%	6.80%	11.00%	1.80%
Webster	7.60%	8.40%	20.60%	3.20%
Wellesley	5.50%	6.30%	9.40%	1.60%
Wellfleet	8.50%	6.00%	17.50%	7.50%
Wenham	4.40%	4.60%	11.30%	1.50%
West Boylston	5.70%	5.70%	16.90%	2.90%
West Bridgewater	6.40%	6.00%	18.50%	2.20%
West Brookfield	5.40%	6.00%	15.30%	3.20%
West Newbury	4.60%	5.40%	12.30%	1.70%
West Tisbury	3.60%	3.30%	7.70%	2.40%
Westborough	4.80%	5.10%	11.60%	1.80%
Westford	5.00%	5.50%	12.00%	1.90%
Westminster	5.00%	5.40%	15.70%	2.40%
Weston	5.30%	7.20%	8.90%	1.40%
Westwood	5.90%	6.30%	12.50%	1.60%
Weymouth Town	6.10%	6.70%	19.50%	2.60%
Whitman	5.90%	6.00%	18.90%	2.60%
Wilmington	5.50%	6.00%	15.90%	1.90%
Winchendon	5.70%	6.30%	16.50%	2.50%
Winchester	5.20%	7.00%	10.80%	1.40%
Winthrop Town	6.50%	7.00%	21.20%	2.10%
Woburn	5.80%	6.00%	17.70%	2.00%
Worcester	7.60%	8.40%	20.60%	2.80%
Wrentham	5.30%	5.60%	14.80%	1.70%
Yarmouth	6.80%	7.20%	20.40%	4.10%