{"id":180791,"date":"2024-06-26T03:40:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T08:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=180791"},"modified":"2024-06-27T03:46:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T08:46:38","slug":"odjfs-unemployment-rate-increases-locally-statewide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/06\/26\/odjfs-unemployment-rate-increases-locally-statewide\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless rate increases locally, statewide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest figures from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services show Van Wert County came in below the state\u2019s overall unemployment rate in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert County\u2019s jobless rate was 3.7 percent last month, while the Ohio average increased from 4.0 to 4.2 percent. Van Wert County\u2019s jobless rate increased from 3.3 percent in April. Even so, the county\u2019s unemployment rate remains among the lowest in Ohio. Van Wert County, along with Auglaize County tied for the fifth lowest rate statewide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to ODJFS, Van Wert County had a labor force of 14,900 in March, with 14,400 workers employed. Other figures supplied by the state show the county\u2019s unemployment rate has increased since May of 2023, when it was just 2.6 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/May-2024-unemployment-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-180793\"\/><figcaption>This map shows the May, 2024 unemployment rate for each Ohio county.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Five of the six counties with the lowest jobless rate are in northwest Ohio. Once again, neighboring Mercer County had Ohio\u2019s lowest unemployment rate, 3.3 percent in May, the same as Wyandot County. Putnam and Holmes counties tied for third lowest, 3.5 percent, while Van Wert and Auglaize counties tied for fifth lowest. Paulding County\u2019s May jobless equaled the statewide average, 4.2 percent, while Allen County\u2019s May unemployment rate was 4.7 percent, 37th among Ohio\u2019s 88 counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Counties with the highest rates in May were primarily in southeast Ohio. Jefferson and Meigs counties each had the highest jobless rate, 6.8 percent, followed by Monroe County (6.6 percent), Athens County (6.4 percent),&nbsp;and Jackson County (6.3 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ohio\u2019s nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased 21,200 over the month, from a revised 5,641,400 in April to 5,662,600 in May. The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in May was 243,000, up from 230,000 in April. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor The latest figures from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services show Van Wert County came in below the state\u2019s overall unemployment rate in May. Van Wert County\u2019s jobless rate was 3.7 percent last month, while the Ohio average increased from 4.0 to 4.2 percent. Van Wert County\u2019s jobless rate increased [&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-180791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 18:00:22","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\/180791","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=180791"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180856,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180791\/revisions\/180856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}