October 5th, 2021
As of August 2021 the unemployment rate in the Hudson Valley* was 5.1%, down from 9.6% in August of 2020, when the economy was still reeling from the shutdowns of the pandemic. In August 2020 the statewide unemployment rate went as high as 11.6%. As of August this year, the rate was lower in the Hudson Valley as compared to both the statewide rate of 7.1% and the national rate of 5.3%.
*The NY DOL Hudson Valley are does not include Columbia or Greene Counties
