ALBANY – The April 2022 unemployment rate for the Hudson Valley region is 2.9 percent, the lowest April rate on record, dating back to 1990.
It is down from 3.5 percent in March and down from 5.1 percent in April 2021.
Columbia County had the lowest rate in the region in April at 2.4 percent. Greene County, with 3.3 percent joblessness, had the highest rate.
Rockland County, with 2.6 percent unemployment, scored second lowest in the region, followed by Rockland County at 2.6 percent, Putnam County at 2.7 percent, Dutchess at 2.8 percent, and Ulster County at 2.9 percent.
Orange and Westchester counties each had 3.0 percent joblessness. And Sullivan County had 3.1 percent unemployment.
| COUNTY | APRIL 2022 | MARCH 2022 | APRIL 2021 |
| Columbia | 2.4 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
| Delaware | 3.2 | 4.0 | 5.0 |
| Dutchess | 2.8 | 3.4 | 4.8 |
| Greene | 3.3 | 4.1 | 5.5 |
| Orange | 3.0 | 3.6 | 5.1 |
| Putnam | 2.7 | 3.2 | 4.5 |
| Rockland | 2.6 | 3.1 | 4.7 |
| Sullivan | 3.1 | 3.9 | 5.4 |
| Ulster | 2.9 | 3.5 | 5.0 |
| Westchester | 3.0 | 3.5 | 5.3 |
