Rock top jobseeking spot

NerdWallet, a website dedicated to making financial information and products more transparent for users, named Rockville Centre the best town to live in for jobseekers in New York.
The study focused on three categories: city growth, based on assessments of population growth of those 16 and over; salaries and median household income; and the unemployment rate. Rockville Centre came in at the top with a population growth of -1.2 percent, a median household income of $108,071, and a 5.3 percent unemployment rate, for a total score of 65.7 percent. 67 New York cities designated as places by the U.S. Census were included in the analysis.
Annie Wang, who crunched the numbers for New York State, says these numbers are, of course, generalized.
“It’s really hard for us to see on an individual case-by-case basis so we looked at three main variables,” she said. “Obviously, we couldn’t really consider everyone’s individual case.”
New York is the first state for which these numbers have been released, but NerdWallet hopes to eventually provide this service for each state. Wang says they intend to take it one state at a time.
“Not a lot of people are willing to just pack up and move across the country,” she said. “We really wanted to look at it in a more local way. We actually looked at every single city in New York.”
But not all of those cities had all the data. According to Wang, most autonomous towns and villages numbering under 25,000 in population didn’t keep their own unemployment records, so the bulk of the data from those areas got lumped in with data from the surrounding area. But Rockville Centre’s village government, which keeps track of its own data, was able to provide census information that allowed the village to come out on top.