April was a month for some major improvement in the Raccoon River Valley in terms of jobs.

All three of our primary counties saw significant improvement in unemployment figures last month.

According to Iowa Workforce Development, Dallas County’s unemployment rate dropped half a percentage in April to 3.4 percent.  Greene County saw an eight-tenths of a percent drop last month to 3.6 percent overall and Guthrie County’s unemployment rate dropped two whole percent in April to 3.9 percent.

In comparison, Dallas County’s April 2013 unemployment rate was 3.5 percent, Greene’s was 4.6 percent and Guthrie’s was 5.4 percent.

The number of Iowans without a job also dropped in April, down two-tenths of a percent to 4.3.  While the national unemployment rate dropped to 6.3 percent.