Hudson Valley Unemployment rates

Throughout the lower Hudson Valley, State Labor Department officials gave us the July unemployment rates in the region as follows:

•Westchester County, 3.9 percent, compared with 3.6 percent in June and 4 percent in July 2006;

•Putnam County, 3.5 percent, compared with 3.3 percent in June and 3.7 percent in July 2006;

•Rockland County, 4 percent, compared with 3.7 percent in June and 4.1 percent in July 2006;

•Orange County, 4.4 percent, compared with 4.2 percent in June and 4.5 percent in July 2006;

•Dutchess County, 4 percent, compared with 3.9 percent in June and 4.1 percent in July 2006;

•Kingston area, 4.4 percent, compared with 4.1 percent in June and 4.5 percent in July 2006.