People living in areas of Northeast and Southeast continue to face high levels of unemployment, according to new data. The Post reports that while D.C. has seen great economic prosperity the past decade, the unemployment rate overall is still high. This is especially the case east of the Anacostia River where there are many neighborhoods where the jobless rate is anywhere between 25 and 83 percent.

But 7.1 percent of District residents who wanted a job in June could not find one, about the same as five years ago. That is higher than the nation as a whole and stands in even sharper contrast to nearby suburbs; only 2 percent of Arlington residents were unemployed in June.

When DCist examined the unemployment map, we found a few interesting things. The largest area of town where there is high unemployment is not in an underprivleged part of town, but in palatial Spring Valley and the Palisades in Far Upper Northwest. The wealthy Foxhall Road corridor also shows high unemployment. Also, residents living in and around George Washington University, but perhaps the data didn’t exclude the full-time student population.