Town-by-town unemployment rates for April are now online at the state’s Office of Labor and Workforce Development, and the results are shown in the map below:
Statewide unemployment was 7.8 percent, down from March’s 8.2 percent but up sharply from the previous April’s 4.3 percent. (The data are not seasonally adjusted, so it’s not unusual for the rate to go down as temperatures rise.) Boston’s rate was 7.1 percent, and Worcester was at 9.1 percent.
There were 36 communities with unemployment above 10 percent, down from 63 in the previous month. The highest rates were in Provincetown (25.7), Monroe (17.9), Lawrence (16.2), Truro (15.5), and Fall River (14.4). Other cities with double-digit rates included New Bedford, Attleboro, Fitchburg, Lowell, and Springfield.
On the other side of the spectrum, 29 communities logged jobless rates below 5 percent, including Amherst, Newton, Brookline, and Cambridge.

