Unemployment in all three of Maine's metropolitan areas fell one-tenth of a percentage point in October.
That means unemployment in Bangor is running at 3.1 percent of the workforce, Lewiston-Auburn at 2.9 percent and in Portland-South Portland, just 2.5 percent of people looking for work couldn't find jobs last month.
The percentages translate to 2,178 people needing jobs in Bangor, 1,596 in Lewiston-Auburn and 5,054 in the Portland-South Portland Metro areas.
The figures were released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
