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Denver boasts lowest jobless rate of any major metro area

Smaller Colorado cities, however, are below 2 percent

Construction workers work on a mixed ...
Construction workers work on a mixed use project in downtown Denver.
DENVER, CO - NOVEMBER 8:  Aldo Svaldi - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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Metro Denver’s 2.1 percent unemployment rate in April was the lowest of any metro area with 1 million or more people, the .

Boulder had an even lower jobless rate of 1.8 percent, the second lowest of any metro area, regardless of size, after Ames, Iowa, which came in at 1.7 percent.

Douglas, Gilpin, Clear Creek, Elbert and Park counties, which the BLS includes within metro Denver, all had unemployment rates below 2 percent. Adams County had the “highest” at 2.3 percent, a rate matches the .

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