Three metropolitan areas tied for the highest unemployment rate, 8.0 percent, among all large, U.S. metropolitan areas in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Those three areas include the Detroit-Warren-Livonia area in Michigan, the Providence-Fall River-Warwick area in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario area in California,

The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington area in Minnesota and Wisconsin posted the lowest jobless rate among large metropolitan areas at 4.0 percent.

Among metropolitan areas of all sizes, the Yuma, Ariz., area posted the highest jobless rate at 26.5 percent in May. El Centro, Calif., followed with an unemployment rate of 21.1 percent. Bismarck, N.D., posted the lowest unemployment rate at 2.2 percent.