The unemployment rate for Kansas, as a whole, decreased 0.4 percentage point from August to September. All of the Kansas MSAs experienced decreases, also, ranging from 0.5 in the Wichita MSA and Topeka MSA to a 0.6 and 0.7 percentage point decrease in the Lawrence and Manhattan MSAs, respectively.
A slide presentation is available with additional employment and unemployment data for Kansas and its four metro areas.