Unemployment rate continues to fall

Parramatta’s unemployment rate in the March quarter 2008 was 3.7 per cent showing a progressive fall from 4.6 per cent in the same quarter 2007. The rate for Sydney, NSW and Australia in March 2008 was 4.3 per cent, 4.6 per cent and 4.2 per cent respectively. The only Sydney metropolitan local government area, in the March 2008 quarter, with double digit figures was Blacktown at 12.4 per cent.