Utica Rome Unemployment Rate Down In November

The New York State Department of Labor has released local unemployment numbers for November.

In the Utica-Rome area, the unemployment rate was at 4.7 percent last month, down from  5 percent in November 2015.

The state's unemployment rate decreased slightly from 5.2 percent to 5.1 percent in November.

Meanwhile, the state's private sector job count increased by 100,900 from November 2015 to November 2016.