The Boston-Cambridge-Nashua metropolitan area in Massachusetts and New Hampshire posted the lowest unemployment rate among large metropolitan areas at 2.6% in October, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today.

The highest jobless rate among large metropolitan areas in October was posted by the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario area in Southern California, at 6.1%.

The lowest unemployment rate among metropolitan areas of all sizes was in Fargo, ND-Minn., at 1.8%. El Centro, Calif., and Yuma, Ariz., had the highest unemployment rates at 22.0% and 19.4%, respectively.