Jacksonville’s unemployment rate fell in April, mainly because some people dropped out of the labor force.
The jobless rate in the Jacksonville metropolitan area of Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties fell from 3.4% in March to 3.2% in April, the Florida Department of Commerce reported May 17.
The department’s survey of households in Northeast Florida found 819,430 people said they are employed, about the same as in March. However, the number of people in the labor force fell by about 1,600 to 848,326, so the unemployment rate fell.