July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Jay rate up to 8.2
The unemployment rate in Jay County continued a negative trend in June, jumping by more than half a percentage point. It also went up 0.5 percentage points in May.
Jay County’s unemployment rate bumped up to 8.2 percent in June from 7.6 percent in May according to labor force estimates released Thursday by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
The rate has been anything but steady this year, opening at 8.5 percent in January, falling to 7.1 percent in April and now having risen again to 8.2 percent. Jay County’s rate remained lower than the state average of 8.7 percent, but higher than the U.S. average of 7.8 percent.
While the unemployment rate in Jay County has risen significantly since April, it is still lower than that of three adjacent counties — Blackford, Delaware and Randolph — and tied for 35th lowest out of Indiana’s 92 counties. Jay and each of the five surrounding counties all saw unemployment rites rise in June.
Delaware County ranks as the worst in the six-county region at 10.5 percent, which is tied for the eighth-highest rate in the state. Grant and Fayette counties are also among the worst in the state at 11.8 percent and 10.7 percent unemployment respectively.
Unemployment in the state also saw a jump of 0.6 percentage points in June to 8.7 percent from 8.1 percent in May. There are pockets of low unemployment surrounding Indianapolis and in rural southwest Indiana, and an area of high unemployment along the Illinois border in Fountain, Vermillion, Vigo and Sullivan counties.
Individual area unemployment rates are as follows:
Delaware County: 10.5 percent, up 1.5 percentage points since May, tied for eighth highest in the state.
Blackford County: 9.8 percent, up 0.4 percentage points, t-20th highest.
Randolph County: 9.6 percent, up 0.6 percentage points, t-26th highest.
Jay County: 8.2 percent, up 0.6 percentage points, t-35th lowest.
Adams County: 7.6 percent, up 0.8 percentage points, t-19th lowest.
Wells County: 7.5 percent, up 0.7 percentage points, t-16th lowest.
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Jay County’s unemployment rate bumped up to 8.2 percent in June from 7.6 percent in May according to labor force estimates released Thursday by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
The rate has been anything but steady this year, opening at 8.5 percent in January, falling to 7.1 percent in April and now having risen again to 8.2 percent. Jay County’s rate remained lower than the state average of 8.7 percent, but higher than the U.S. average of 7.8 percent.
While the unemployment rate in Jay County has risen significantly since April, it is still lower than that of three adjacent counties — Blackford, Delaware and Randolph — and tied for 35th lowest out of Indiana’s 92 counties. Jay and each of the five surrounding counties all saw unemployment rites rise in June.
Delaware County ranks as the worst in the six-county region at 10.5 percent, which is tied for the eighth-highest rate in the state. Grant and Fayette counties are also among the worst in the state at 11.8 percent and 10.7 percent unemployment respectively.
Unemployment in the state also saw a jump of 0.6 percentage points in June to 8.7 percent from 8.1 percent in May. There are pockets of low unemployment surrounding Indianapolis and in rural southwest Indiana, and an area of high unemployment along the Illinois border in Fountain, Vermillion, Vigo and Sullivan counties.
Individual area unemployment rates are as follows:
Delaware County: 10.5 percent, up 1.5 percentage points since May, tied for eighth highest in the state.
Blackford County: 9.8 percent, up 0.4 percentage points, t-20th highest.
Randolph County: 9.6 percent, up 0.6 percentage points, t-26th highest.
Jay County: 8.2 percent, up 0.6 percentage points, t-35th lowest.
Adams County: 7.6 percent, up 0.8 percentage points, t-19th lowest.
Wells County: 7.5 percent, up 0.7 percentage points, t-16th lowest.
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