The Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin metropolitan area in Tennessee posted the lowest unemployment rate among all large, US metropolitan areas in February at 2.7%, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today. The San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward area in California followed at 2.9%.

The highest jobless rate among large metropolitan areas in February was posted by the Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls area in New York, at 6.4%.

The lowest unemployment rates among metropolitan areas of all sizes was in Urban Honolulu, Hawaii, at 1.8%, followed closely by Ames, Iowa, at 1.9%. El Centro, Calif., had the highest unemployment rate at 16.0%.