Metro Boston Unemployment Level Heat Map - October 2020

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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	11.20%	16.60%	3.50%	2.60%
Acton	6.60%	10.00%	1.80%	2.00%
Amesbury Town	9.40%	14.40%	2.70%	2.20%
Andover	7.70%	11.60%	2.20%	2.40%
Aquinnah	3.60%	7.00%	3.30%	0.90%
Arlington	7.30%	10.70%	1.70%	1.80%
Ashburnham	9.70%	14.00%	2.40%	2.40%
Ashby	9.40%	14.90%	3.50%	1.90%
Ashland	8.80%	13.20%	2.20%	2.20%
Athol	11.50%	16.30%	3.90%	3.20%
Auburn	9.30%	13.80%	2.90%	2.70%
Avon	12.60%	17.90%	3.30%	3.00%
Ayer	11.20%	16.20%	3.20%	3.00%
Barnstable County	10.40%	15.30%	5.30%	2.60%
Barnstable Town	10.80%	16.30%	4.90%	2.70%
Barre	10.40%	15.10%	4.00%	2.90%
Bedford	7.50%	11.60%	1.90%	2.20%
Bellingham	9.70%	14.40%	3.00%	2.70%
Belmont	7.70%	11.40%	1.70%	2.10%
Berlin	8.30%	12.20%	1.90%	2.50%
Beverly	9.60%	14.20%	2.40%	2.40%
Billerica	10.20%	15.10%	2.80%	2.40%
Blackstone	10.00%	15.40%	3.20%	2.80%
Bolton	6.80%	10.30%	1.90%	2.00%
Boston	12.80%	18.20%	2.40%	2.50%
Bourne	11.20%	15.80%	4.30%	2.90%
Boxborough	7.10%	10.20%	1.70%	1.90%
Boxford	7.60%	11.70%	1.90%	2.00%
Boylston	7.40%	11.70%	2.50%	2.70%
Braintree Town	11.50%	17.30%	2.70%	2.20%
Brewster	8.50%	13.00%	4.80%	2.40%
Bridgewater	10.60%	15.60%	2.90%	2.60%
Brockton	17.30%	24.10%	3.80%	3.50%
Brookfield	9.70%	15.00%	3.70%	2.70%
Brookline	6.70%	10.00%	1.50%	1.80%
Burlington	8.20%	12.00%	2.10%	2.10%
Cambridge	6.70%	10.00%	1.60%	1.80%
Canton	10.30%	14.80%	2.40%	2.60%
Carlisle	6.10%	9.80%	1.90%	1.90%
Carver	10.30%	15.40%	3.80%	2.50%
Charlton	8.60%	13.30%	2.80%	2.60%
Chatham	8.50%	13.20%	5.20%	1.90%
Chelmsford	8.80%	13.10%	2.30%	2.40%
Chelsea	16.50%	23.00%	3.10%	2.50%
Chilmark	5.10%	7.90%	2.90%	1.70%
Clinton	11.10%	16.30%	3.80%	3.40%
Cohasset	7.50%	11.00%	1.80%	2.40%
Concord	6.30%	9.50%	1.70%	2.30%
Danvers	10.80%	16.00%	2.60%	2.70%
Dedham	10.50%	15.40%	2.50%	2.40%
Dennis	11.50%	16.50%	6.00%	3.00%
Douglas	8.70%	13.10%	2.90%	2.30%
Dover	6.40%	8.70%	1.90%	2.30%
Dracut	10.20%	15.40%	2.80%	2.50%
Dudley	10.20%	15.40%	3.40%	3.20%
Dukes County	6.90%	10.90%	6.00%	2.20%
Dunstable	6.80%	10.90%	2.00%	2.60%
Duxbury	9.20%	13.90%	2.30%	2.50%
East Bridgewater	9.60%	14.60%	3.20%	2.30%
East Brookfield	7.70%	12.10%	2.70%	2.30%
Eastham	9.00%	13.30%	6.50%	1.90%
Edgartown	7.70%	12.30%	7.20%	2.00%
Essex	7.90%	11.90%	2.00%	2.60%
Essex County	12.40%	18.00%	3.00%	2.80%
Everett	15.20%	21.10%	2.50%	2.20%
Falmouth	10.60%	15.60%	4.70%	2.70%
Fitchburg	15.50%	21.40%	4.30%	3.40%
Foxborough	10.40%	15.60%	3.00%	2.70%
Framingham	2.60%	2.60%	2.60%	2.40%
Franklin Town	9.40%	13.70%	2.60%	2.40%
Gardner	13.10%	18.60%	3.90%	3.10%
Georgetown	9.00%	13.30%	2.20%	2.00%
Gloucester	10.80%	16.10%	4.20%	2.90%
Gosnold	2.30%	2.40%	0.00%	0.00%
Grafton	9.00%	13.60%	2.50%	2.70%
Groton	7.30%	10.90%	2.00%	2.10%
Groveland	9.20%	14.10%	2.50%	2.00%
Halifax	11.10%	16.10%	4.00%	2.40%
Hamilton	7.30%	10.80%	2.00%	2.00%
Hampton	7.70%	9.40%	3.00%	2.60%
Hanover	9.90%	14.50%	2.60%	2.40%
Hanson	9.60%	14.40%	3.20%	2.50%
Hardwick	8.30%	12.20%	3.10%	2.40%
Harvard	6.90%	10.20%	1.80%	2.20%
Harwich	10.80%	15.50%	6.20%	2.30%
Haverhill	12.80%	18.60%	3.20%	2.90%
Hingham	7.60%	11.30%	2.20%	2.30%
Holbrook	13.70%	18.90%	2.90%	3.20%
Holden	8.60%	12.70%	2.50%	2.40%
Holliston	8.30%	13.10%	2.40%	2.30%
Hopedale	10.60%	15.70%	3.00%	2.60%
Hopkinton	7.90%	11.80%	2.10%	2.40%
Hubbardston	6.80%	10.70%	2.70%	2.80%
Hudson	9.90%	14.80%	3.00%	2.50%
Hull	11.70%	16.40%	3.40%	3.00%
Ipswich	8.90%	13.00%	2.70%	2.00%
Kingston	10.30%	15.50%	3.20%	2.40%
Lakeville	9.60%	14.60%	3.00%	2.50%
Lancaster	8.10%	12.60%	2.70%	2.40%
Lawrence	23.00%	31.00%	5.10%	4.80%
Leicester	9.50%	13.80%	3.00%	2.80%
Leominster	12.90%	18.50%	3.60%	3.10%
Lexington	6.30%	9.20%	1.80%	2.20%
Lincoln	7.50%	9.90%	1.90%	2.10%
Littleton	7.20%	11.20%	2.20%	2.30%
Lowell	13.20%	19.00%	3.30%	3.20%
Lunenburg	9.80%	13.90%	3.00%	2.80%
Lynn	16.60%	23.20%	3.20%	2.90%
Lynnfield	8.50%	12.60%	1.90%	2.20%
Malden	15.60%	22.10%	2.60%	2.40%
Manchester-by-the-Sea	8.30%	12.10%	2.30%	2.20%
Marblehead	8.50%	12.60%	2.30%	2.40%
Marion	9.30%	13.40%	3.20%	2.60%
Marlborough	9.80%	14.60%	3.00%	2.30%
Marshfield	9.00%	13.20%	2.80%	2.20%
Mashpee	10.40%	15.40%	5.00%	2.80%
Mattapoisett	9.70%	14.10%	3.00%	3.00%
Maynard	8.40%	12.40%	2.40%	2.10%
Medfield	7.80%	12.00%	1.90%	2.00%
Medford	10.20%	15.20%	2.30%	2.20%
Medway	8.80%	13.10%	2.70%	2.60%
Melrose	9.50%	13.70%	2.00%	2.30%
Mendon	9.80%	14.90%	2.70%	2.50%
Merrimac	8.70%	13.20%	2.50%	2.20%
Methuen Town	13.00%	19.00%	3.20%	3.10%
Middleborough	11.20%	16.40%	3.80%	3.00%
Middleton	10.60%	15.50%	2.60%	2.50%
Milford	9.90%	14.90%	3.10%	2.50%
Millbury	9.70%	14.50%	3.10%	2.60%
Millis	10.10%	15.60%	3.20%	2.20%
Millville	10.60%	15.80%	3.70%	3.40%
Milton	9.80%	13.90%	2.20%	2.40%
Nahant	10.80%	15.70%	2.30%	2.40%
Nantucket	6.00%	9.20%	9.10%	1.70%
Nantucket County	6.00%	9.20%	9.10%	1.70%
Natick	8.50%	12.80%	2.10%	2.00%
Needham	7.20%	10.50%	1.60%	2.20%
New Braintree	8.30%	13.60%	3.90%	2.00%
Newbury	8.60%	12.90%	2.60%	2.10%
Newburyport	8.20%	12.10%	2.40%	2.30%
Newton	7.40%	11.20%	1.80%	2.10%
Norfolk	8.80%	13.10%	2.50%	2.10%
Norfolk County	10.60%	15.60%	2.50%	2.40%
North Andover	9.30%	13.40%	2.30%	2.50%
North Brookfield	9.20%	13.60%	2.90%	2.10%
North Reading	9.00%	13.40%	2.30%	2.30%
Northborough	8.80%	12.90%	2.50%	2.40%
Northbridge	9.80%	14.20%	3.30%	2.90%
Norwell	8.70%	13.40%	2.40%	2.60%
Norwood	11.60%	16.50%	2.60%	2.60%
Oak Bluffs	5.90%	9.50%	5.90%	2.10%
Oakham	8.10%	12.50%	5.40%	2.80%
Orleans	9.10%	13.70%	4.60%	2.40%
Oxford	9.80%	14.50%	3.00%	2.50%
Paxton	8.10%	12.10%	2.50%	2.30%
Peabody	12.00%	17.50%	2.80%	2.40%
Pembroke	9.90%	14.50%	3.50%	2.40%
Pepperell	7.90%	11.80%	2.60%	2.20%
Petersham	7.80%	12.90%	2.50%	3.30%
Phillipston	9.20%	13.10%	2.80%	2.40%
Plainville	10.40%	15.30%	2.80%	2.50%
Plymouth	10.40%	15.60%	3.40%	2.70%
Plymouth County	11.50%	16.80%	3.30%	2.80%
Plympton	9.40%	15.50%	3.90%	2.80%
Princeton	9.00%	13.30%	2.60%	2.40%
Provincetown	8.00%	13.70%	17.00%	2.50%
Quincy	14.50%	20.90%	2.90%	2.50%
Randolph	16.10%	22.70%	3.20%	3.00%
Reading	8.90%	12.70%	2.00%	2.00%
Revere	18.40%	25.50%	3.40%	2.70%
Rochester	8.60%	13.70%	3.10%	2.40%
Rockingham County	6.80%	8.40%	3.00%	2.40%
Rockland	11.90%	17.30%	3.50%	2.70%
Rockport	10.10%	14.80%	3.80%	2.30%
Rowley	9.40%	14.20%	3.30%	2.40%
Royalston	7.30%	11.40%	3.40%	2.20%
Rutland	8.40%	13.10%	2.80%	2.50%
Salem	12.40%	18.20%	3.10%	2.80%
Salisbury	11.20%	15.40%	3.40%	2.30%
Sandwich	9.60%	14.00%	3.40%	2.50%
Saugus	13.10%	18.90%	3.10%	2.70%
Scituate	8.90%	13.40%	2.40%	2.70%
Sharon	7.40%	11.10%	1.80%	2.30%
Sherborn	6.50%	10.10%	1.90%	1.70%
Shirley	11.60%	16.80%	3.20%	2.80%
Shrewsbury	8.30%	12.50%	2.50%	2.40%
Somerville	8.80%	13.00%	2.00%	1.80%
Southborough	8.00%	12.20%	2.10%	2.10%
Southbridge Town	15.60%	22.20%	4.10%	4.10%
Spencer	11.10%	16.70%	3.70%	3.30%
Sterling	9.00%	13.90%	2.80%	2.60%
Stoneham	9.90%	14.70%	2.30%	2.20%
Stoughton	11.90%	17.30%	2.90%	2.80%
Stow	7.20%	10.80%	2.00%	2.10%
Sturbridge	9.50%	14.40%	3.00%	2.60%
Sudbury	6.90%	10.10%	1.90%	2.40%
Suffolk County	13.40%	19.00%	2.50%	2.50%
Sutton	8.10%	12.60%	2.50%	2.50%
Swampscott	9.20%	13.80%	2.30%	2.40%
Templeton	9.50%	14.60%	3.00%	2.90%
Tewksbury	10.10%	15.00%	2.80%	2.50%
Tisbury	9.20%	14.60%	7.20%	3.50%
Topsfield	7.30%	11.00%	1.70%	2.10%
Townsend	9.50%	14.20%	2.90%	2.20%
Truro	7.20%	11.60%	12.50%	2.30%
Tyngsborough	8.90%	13.60%	2.70%	2.60%
Upton	8.60%	13.40%	2.60%	2.30%
Uxbridge	9.20%	13.90%	3.10%	2.30%
Wakefield	9.80%	14.10%	2.40%	2.20%
Walpole	9.50%	14.20%	2.70%	2.40%
Waltham	8.80%	13.10%	2.40%	2.10%
Wareham	11.80%	17.10%	4.10%	3.50%
Warren	9.80%	14.00%	3.50%	3.60%
Watertown Town	9.30%	13.40%	1.90%	1.90%
Wayland	7.00%	10.70%	1.90%	2.20%
Webster	13.50%	19.00%	3.70%	3.50%
Wellesley	6.00%	9.00%	1.80%	2.40%
Wellfleet	8.10%	12.10%	8.20%	2.20%
Wenham	6.30%	10.60%	1.90%	2.90%
West Boylston	9.90%	15.30%	3.70%	3.20%
West Bridgewater	11.10%	16.20%	2.90%	2.80%
West Brookfield	9.20%	14.00%	4.20%	2.60%
West Newbury	6.90%	11.30%	2.10%	1.90%
West Tisbury	4.80%	7.10%	4.00%	1.20%
Westborough	7.40%	11.30%	2.20%	2.00%
Westford	7.30%	10.90%	2.20%	2.30%
Westminster	9.90%	14.90%	2.90%	2.20%
Weston	6.50%	9.30%	1.70%	2.10%
Westwood	8.00%	11.90%	1.90%	2.10%
Weymouth Town	11.80%	17.20%	3.30%	2.70%
Whitman	10.70%	16.10%	3.30%	2.60%
Wilmington	9.40%	14.10%	2.60%	2.40%
Winchendon	10.80%	15.30%	3.00%	3.00%
Winchester	7.20%	10.30%	1.80%	2.10%
Winthrop Town	13.40%	19.50%	2.70%	2.40%
Woburn	10.80%	15.70%	2.50%	2.30%
Worcester	13.30%	19.00%	3.20%	3.40%
Wrentham	9.40%	13.70%	2.40%	2.20%
Yarmouth	11.10%	16.50%	5.50%	2.60%