{"id":194328,"date":"2025-06-27T20:59:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T01:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=194328"},"modified":"2025-06-27T20:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T01:59:46","slug":"local-unemployment-below-state-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/06\/27\/local-unemployment-below-state-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Local unemployment below state average"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Figures supplied by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services earlier this week show Van Wert County\u2019s unemployment rate was lower than the statewide average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The county\u2019s May jobless rate was 4.2 percent, compared to the statewide average of 4.9 percent. Locally, the unemployment rate decreased from April, when it was 4.6 percent. However, it\u2019s higher than May of 2024, when it was 3.4 percent. According to ODJFS, Van Wert County had a labor force of 14,600 last month, with 14,000 workers employed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neighboring Mercer County was tied with Holmes County for the state\u2019s lowest employment rate in May, 3.4 percent. Two counties bordering Van Wert County were among the lowest in the state as well \u2013 Putnam County&nbsp; (third lowest, 3.6 percent) and Auglaize County (3.7 percent). Paulding County\u2019s rate was 4.5 percent and Allen County\u2019s jobless rate was 4.7 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight counties had unemployment rates at or below 4.0 percent in May. The counties with the lowest rates, other than Holmes and Mercer, were: Warren, 4.0 percent; Delaware, 3.9 percent; Wyandot, 3.8 percent; Auglaize and Union, 3.7 percentm and Putnam, 3.6 percent. Four counties had unemployment rates above 6.0 percent in May. The counties with the highest rates, other than Meigs, were: Scioto, 6.5 percent, and Noble and Pike, 6.2 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From April, unemployment rates increased in seven counties, decreased in 78 counties, and did not change in three counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff Figures supplied by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services earlier this week show Van Wert County\u2019s unemployment rate was lower than the statewide average. The county\u2019s May jobless rate was 4.2 percent, compared to the statewide average of 4.9 percent. Locally, the unemployment rate decreased from April, when it was [&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-194328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 05:21:12","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\/194328","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=194328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194339,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194328\/revisions\/194339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}