Jay rate is 5.3

The unemployment rate is headed back in a positive direction.
Following back-to-back months of rate increases, unemployment in Jay County dipped to 5.3 percent in July according to estimates the Indiana Department of Workforce Development released Tuesday.
Jay County hit a six-year low of 4.7 percent in April, but that number jumped by a full point over the next two months. Its drop of 0.4 percentage points was the largest in the six-county region, although most of the area saw improvement.
The outlier was Wells County, which had the fourth-lowest rate in Indiana in June, but saw unemployment jump by 0.8 percentage points to 5.5 percent in July.
Adams County led the area with a rate of 5.1 percent, tied for 2
The drops in most of the region in July mirrored the statewide trend, which saw Indiana’s rate fall by 0.3 percentage points. State officials continue to tout job creation, as Indiana ranks second in adding manufacturing jobs since 2009.
"Indiana followed up a record-breaking June by adding nearly 10,000 more private sector jobs in July," said Scott B. Sanders, Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, in a press release. "The Hoosier labor force has also grown by over 54,000 individuals in the past year at a rate that is more than eight times larger than the national rate of growth during the same time period, which is quite remarkable."
Dubois County posted the best rate in the state for the fifth straight month at 3.9 percent. Hamilton and Bartholomew counties followed at 4.2 percent.
The highest rate in the state was 7.9 percent in Sullivan County.
After posting the eighth-highest rate in the state in June, Delaware County had the sixth-highest in July at 7.1 percent.
Individual area unemployment rates are as follows:
Adams County: 5.1 percent, down 0.2 percentage points, t-28th lowest.
Blackford County: 6.5, down 0.3 percentage points, t-20th highest.
Delaware County: 7.5 percent, down 0.1 percentage points, t-sixth highest.
Jay County: 5.3 percent, down 0.4 percentage points, t-36th lowest.
Randolph County: 6.2 percent, down 0.2 percentage points, t-25nd highest.
Wells County: 5.5 percent, up 0.8 percentage points, t-44th lowest.