The New York State Department of Labor has released local unemployment rates for September.

The unemployment rate in the Utica-Rome area was 4.8 percent, unchanged from September of 2016.

The state's unemployment rate increased from 4.8 percent to 4.9 percent last month.

Meanwhile, the state's private sector job count increased by 84,800 from September 2016 to September 2017.

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