The Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin metropolitan area in Tennessee posted the lowest unemployment rate among all large, US metropolitan areas in April at 2.2%, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today.

The highest jobless rate among large metropolitan areas in December was posted by the Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls area in New York, at 5.1%.

The lowest unemployment rates among metropolitan areas of all sizes was in Ames, Iowa, at 1.5%. Yuma, Ariz., had the highest unemployment rates at 15.7%.