The District’s jobless rate creeped down one tenth of one percent last month, lowering the local unemployment rate to 8.5 percent, according to figures released today by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The District, Maryland and Virginia all saw their unemployment rates drop in October, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today in its monthly tallies of state-by-state joblessness.

According to the jobs report released this morning, 171,000 jobs were added in the month of October, while unemployment ticked up a tenth of a percentage point to 7.9 percent.

The jobless rate in D.C. continued to drop last month, with unemployment here falling one-tenth of a percentage point to 8.7, according to the newest round of statistics by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The District’s unemployment rate fell to 9.1 percent in June, according to the latest figures put out by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The District’s jobless rate decreased again in May, according to the latest round of local unemployment figures released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The District added 4,000 jobs in March, though the unemployment rate remained flat at 9.8 percent, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday in the latest round of local unemployment figures.

After 29 consecutive months of being in double digits, the District’s unemployment rate fell below 10 percent in January, new figures from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics state, falling to 9.9 percent.