Irving’s unemployment rate has decreased to 3.2 percent from 3.4 percent in October.
This compares very favorably to the national and State of Texas unemployment rates of 4.6% each.
Irving’s unemployment rate in November 2015 was 3.6%, or a 11% decline in the unemployment rate year-over-year.
The Irving Economic Development Partnership announced earlier that for Fiscal Year 2016, the City of Irving added, or retained, more than 8,000 jobs by working successfully with 20 different companies.