- The unemployment rate has fell over the 12-month period ending in September of 2011, in the majority of the 154 markets monitored by NAR Research.
- The largest decline occurred in Farmington, New Mexico, where the unemployment fell from 9.1% to 6.5% for an improvement of 2.6 percentage points.
- Six of the markets with the largest declines in unemployment rates are areas that were hardest hit by the decline in the housing market and the economy; markets in Florida, Michigan, and Nevada.
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