{"id":147659,"date":"2021-10-27T03:42:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T08:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=147659"},"modified":"2021-10-27T03:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T08:43:00","slug":"local-jobless-rate-lower-than-state-avg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/10\/27\/local-jobless-rate-lower-than-state-avg\/","title":{"rendered":"Local jobless rate lower than state avg."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent news<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to local and area unemployment rates, Van Wert County is on the lower end of the spectrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>County-by-county figures released on Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services show Van Wert County\u2019s September jobless rate was 3.7 percent, substantially below the statewide average of 5.4 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Auglaize County\u2019s September unemployment rate also was 3.7 percent, while Putnam County\u2019s rate was 3.3 percent, while Paulding County came in at 4.2 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mercer County had the area\u2019s lowest unemployment rate and the second lowest rate in Ohio, 3.1 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just one area county \u2013 Allen County \u2013 reported an unemployment rate higher than the statewide average, 6.1 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 2.6 percent, Holmes County in northeast Ohio had the state\u2019s lowest unemployment rate while Pike County, in south central Ohio, had the highest jobless rate in September, 7.7 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ohio\u2019s average of 5.4 is unchanged from the previous month and it\u2019s higher than the national average of 4.8 percent. According to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, 303,300 people were unemployed in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent news When it comes to local and area unemployment rates, Van Wert County is on the lower end of the spectrum. County-by-county figures released on Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services show Van Wert County\u2019s September jobless rate was 3.7 percent, substantially below the statewide average of 5.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 07:24:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}