{"id":27972,"date":"2012-08-22T06:08:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T11:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=27972"},"modified":"2012-08-23T05:54:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T10:54:55","slug":"county-jobless-rate-unchanged-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/08\/22\/county-jobless-rate-unchanged-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"VW County&#8217;s July jobless rate unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Staff\/ODJFS information<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Jobless-rate-map-big-7-2012.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27979\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Jobless-rate-map-big-7-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a>Unemployment in Van Wert County remained unchanged at 7.2 percent for the month of July, according to information released Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately half of Ohio\u2019s 88 counties saw a decrease in unemployment, while the other 44 counties either remained the same or saw an increase in unemployment (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Jobless-rate-map-7-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/strong> for a larger map).<\/p>\n<p>Statewide, eight counties had unemployment rates at or below 6 percent in July. Led by Mercer County\u2019s 4.4 percent jobless rate, counties under 6 percent included Holmes (4.9 percent), Delaware (5.2 percent), Auglaize, Geauga and Putnam (5.7 percent), Union (5.8 percent) and Medina (6.0 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Counties with the highest unemployment included Pike County, which led the state with an unemployment rate of 12.9 percent. Others with high unemployment rates (over 10 percent) included Meigs (12.1 percent), Scioto (11.0 percent), Morgan (10.6 percent), Adams and Clinton (10.5 percent), Jefferson (10.3 percent), and Huron, Noble and Vinton (10.2 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Van Wert County\u2019s 7.2 percent unemployment rate ranked it 55th among Ohio\u2019s 88 counties, with more than half of the state\u2019s counties having higher jobless percentages. Among neighboring counties, Mercer County\u2019s 4.4 percent rate in July was a decrease from 4.5 percent in June, Auglaize County\u2019s 5.7 percent was down from 5.8 percent in June and Putnam County\u2019s July rate of 5.7 percent was also a drop from 5.8 percent in June. Paulding County had an unemployment rate of 6.9 percent, down a tenth of a percent from 7.0 percent in June, while Allen County\u2019s jobless rate was 7.7 percent, down from 7.8 percent in June.<\/p>\n<p>Although Van Wert County\u2019s jobless rate was unchanged, it was substantially better than a year ago, when the county saw unemployment of 9.7 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff\/ODJFS information Unemployment in Van Wert County remained unchanged at 7.2 percent for the month of July, according to information released Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Approximately half of Ohio\u2019s 88 counties saw a decrease in unemployment, while the other 44 counties either remained the same or saw an increase [&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-27972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 23:10:03","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\/27972","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=27972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}