The city's unemployment rate stood at 6.1 per cent in September, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers released Friday.
The figure is down from 7.3 per cent for the same month last year.
However, at 48,000 there were 200 fewer people working compared to September 2015 while, at 21,200, there were 500 more people of working age who were unemployed but not seeking work.
The number of people without jobs but seeking one stood at 3,100 last month, 700 fewer than the year before.
As well, at 51,000, there were 1,000 fewer people in the city's total labour force.
In August, the unemployment rate stood at 6.6 per cent, with 48,000 people working, 3,400 unemployed but seeking a job and 20,700 not participating. The total labour force stood at 51,500.
The accuracy of last month's unemployment rate is plus or minus 0.9 percentage points, 68 per cent of the time and the variation from both the September 2015 and the August 2016 numbers is not statistically significant.
The numbers are based on a three-month rolling average and do not separate part-time and full-time positions.
