Total nonfarm employment in the Boston-Cambridge-Nashua metropolitan area stood at 2,682,800 in April 2016, up 43,900 from one year ago, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report.

Regional Commissioner Deborah A. Brown noted that nonfarm employment rose 1.7 percent locally from April a year ago. During the same period, the national job count increased 1.9 percent.

Boston-Cambridge-Nashua was one of the nation’s 12 largest metropolitan statistical areas in April 2016. The fastest rates of job growth was in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington at 3.9 percent and Phoenix at 3.6, while the slowest rates of job growth were in Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land (0.3 percent), Chicago-Naperville-Elgin (1.6 percent) and Boston (1.7 percent).

Education and health services, the largest industry in the Boston area, gained 13,600 jobs. The 2.4-percent rate of job growth in this supersector was lower than the 3.1-percent gain nationwide. The fastest growing supersector locally was mining, logging and construction (up 9 percent).

Two supersectors in the Boston area lost jobs over the year – manufacturing (down 3,300) and government (down 2,200). Nationally, government employment increased.

Among the 12-largest metropolitan areas nationally, Boston joined two others that experienced employment growth slower than the national average (1.9 percent). Professional and Business Services registered the largest over-the-year employment gains in six of the 12 metropolitan areas.