Delaware’s unemployment rate has fallen to the lowest point in 30 years, according to the Delaware Department of Labor.
The rate dropped from 3.3 to 3.2 percent last month with 15,800 Delawareans claiming unemployment compared with 16,100 in March.
The Department of Labor adds the state also added about 14-hundred jobs.
Among the areas the Department reports non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for, Newark had the lowest last month — 2.7 percent. The city of Wilmington had the highest jobless rate, at 4.4 percent. Countywide, unemployment was the lowest in New Castle County and the highest in Sussex.
According to officials, Delaware has reached 3.3 percent unemployment statewide ten times over the past three decades— and never once gone below it.
The national unemployment rate remains higher than in the First State. It held at 3.6 percent for the month of April.
