SpenAk, 

I cannot believe you just said, "there will never be jobs there[rural Alaska] and they refuse to move so it does not count."   

The Aleutians West Census Area, the farthest most remote area in Alaska comes in under the U.S. unemployment rate of 4.1%. That area is at 3.6%. The lowest region in the state is the Aleutians East Borough at 2.3%. The state average is 7%.  

Fairbanks is at 6.1% and Anchorage is at 5.7.%.  The Denali Borough on the road system is at 16.1%.  The Matanuska-Susitna Borough is at 8.6% while the North Slope Borough is at 7%.   The high population of Fairbanks, the Valley and Anchorage means that many more people are unemployed in those concentrated areas of the state. These are preliminary numbers for 2017.
http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/labforce/

How do you think the 40% or higher non-resident jobs in the oil and gas industry affect our unemployment numbers? The outrageous numbers of non-residents in the fishing industry in Alaska?