HARLINGEN — The jobless rate for the Brownsville-Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area was down again for March, with the unemployment rate at 6.5 percent compared to 6.7 percent in February, and 7.2 percent a year ago.
The Texas Workforce Commission announced today the state jobless rate was 4.0 percent, just below the national rate of 4.1 percent. The Texas jobless rate was unchanged from the previous month, but down significantly from the 4.5 percent rate from a year ago.
The seasonally adjusted numbers show Texas employers added 32,000 non-farm jobs for the month, and 294,100 positions over the course of the past year.
| Texas Jobless Rate | |||
| March 2018 | February 2018 | March 2017 | |
| Brownsville-Harlingen | 6.5 | 6.5 | 7.2 |
| McAllen Edinburg Mission | 6.9 | 7.1 | 7.7 |
| San Antonio New Braunfels | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
| Corpus Christi | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.9 |
| Source: Texas Workforce Commission |
The McAllen-Edinburg-Mission MSA posted a jobless rate of 6.9 percent for March 2018, which was down from 7.1 percent in February. Last year the region had a jobless rate of 7.7 percent.
The McAllen MSA’s jobless rate remained the highest in the state. Beaumont-Port Arthur was 6.5 percent and Corpus Christi was 5.5 percent.
The Midland MSA recorded the lowest jobless rate in the state at 2.4 percent, followed by the Amarillo and College Station MSAs with rates of 3.0 percent.
The San Antonio-New Braunfels MSA recorded a jobless rate of 3.5 percent and the Houston area MSA was at 4.6 percent.
