The San Antonio region’s unemployment rate ticked up in September to 3.6 percent from 3.5 percent in August, mirroring a statewide trend attributed to low oil prices and a high dollar, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas said Friday.

Texas’ rate likewise rose a tenth of a percentage point, to 4.2 percent in September from 4.1 percent in August. Of the state’s major metros, all but Dallas saw the same slight month-to-month increase. The Dallas-Plano-Irving region’s jobless rate held at 3.7 percent

“The modest job growth in September resulted in no net change to the forecast,” said Keith Phillips, the Dallas Fed’s assistant vice president and senior economist. “The decline in oil prices and rise in the value of the dollar continue to suppress job growth in the state, while sectors such as health care and leisure and hospitality remain strong.”

The rise in the San Antonio region’s rate was the first since February 2014, when a slight rise was attributed to more workers joining the post-recession job market.

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But Phillips said he wouldn’t put too much weight in September’s rise, as it followed a particularly strong summer convention season that included the 10-day general conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which brought 65,000 people to San Antonio and was one of the largest conferences in the city’s history.

“We’ve had some pretty large conference in San Antonio this summer, and I think it shows in the data,” he said. “Obviously, when that goes away they’ll be some reduction, so you can’t look at the reduction and think it’s negative.”

Indeed, nonseasonally adjusted data from Workforce Solutions Alamo showed 6,000 jobs lost in leisure and hospitality for the month. That was offset by strong gains in sectors including financial activities, professional and business services, and education and health services.

“When you lose 6,000 jobs over the month in one industry and still gain more than 4,000 jobs (overall) in the same time period, you know you have a diversified economy,” Gail Hathaway, Workforce Solutions Alamo’s executive director, said in a news release.

Over the past 12 months, the raw data showed a net increase of 5,300 leisure and hospitality jobs.

“Overall, leisure and hospitality and health care have been really strong in San Antonio this year, and it’s really helped even more so than the layoffs in the Eagle Ford, which I think had some mild negative effects,” Phillips said. “Federal government has been weak for most of the year, and yet San Antonio continues to plug along at a pretty good growth rate.”

Phillips has predicted the state will finish out 2015 with 1 percent yearly job growth, marking the first time in 13 years that the state’s job growth was slower than the nation’s.

Mining and logging, the sector that includes jobs in oil and gas, shed 3,900 jobs in the Lone Star State over the month, making for 28,300 positions lost over the last 12 months, according to seasonally adjusted data reported Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission.

The trade, transportation and utilities category saw the most new hires, with 11,400 added workers. Education and health services came in second with 10,900 more jobs.

Overall, the state saw a net gain of 13,200 jobs in September, according to Dallas Fed data.

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