Only 2.4% of Nashville’s metropolitan area workforce remain unemployed, continuing as the lowest of Tennessee’s ten metropolitan areas, figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show on Friday.

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With Nashville at the lowest rate as of November 2019, Memphis is experiencing the highest unemployment rate at 3.9%. This is about an 8% increase from November 2018.

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Tennessee’s average unemployment rate has also risen from just over 3.1% to over 3.2%, leading to an additional 2% of Tennesseans unemployed.

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Despite the increase, Tennessee’s unemployment rate average remains lower than the United State’s average, which has fallen from 3.5% to 3.3% since November of 2018.