{"id":33191,"date":"2012-12-29T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=33191"},"modified":"2012-12-31T09:29:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T14:29:01","slug":"county-unemployment-rate-unchanged-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/12\/29\/county-unemployment-rate-unchanged-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"County jobless rate unchanged in Nov."},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Van Wert County again bucked the statewide trend when it comes to unemployment rates, according to figures released Friday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.<\/p>\n

In October, the county was one of the few where the jobless rate increased, while in November, when three-fourths of Ohio\u2019s counties (66 of 88) saw a rate hike, Van Wert County\u2019s rates stayed at 7 percent — the same as in October.<\/p>\n

The rate compares positively, though, to a year ago, when the county had an unemployment rate of 8.1 percent.<\/p>\n

While unemployment stayed the same, at 1,000, both the county\u2019s total labor workforce (14,100) and total employed (13,100) went down 100, according to figures compiled in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the area, Mercer County still had the lowest unemployment rate in the state, but it was a tenth of a percent higher in November, at 3.9 percent. Auglaize County\u2019s jobless rate also remained the same at 4.7 percent, while Putnam County\u2019s unemployment rose a tenth of a percent in November, to 5.0 percent (click here<\/a><\/strong> for a unemployment rate map with more information).<\/p>\n

Paulding County saw an increase of three-tenths of a percent in November, from 5.9 percent to 6.2 percent, while Allen County\u2019s unemployment rate also rose, from 6.6 percent to 6.7 percent this past month.<\/p>\n

Statewide, 10 counties had jobless rates of 5.5 percent or below, led by Mercer County. Holmes County was at 4.2 percent, followed by Delaware at 4.5 percent, Auglaize and Putnam counties, then Hancock and Union counties at 5.1 percent, Wayne County at 5.4 percent, and Franklin and Geauga at 5.5 percent (click here<\/a><\/strong> to see civilian labor force estimates for all of Ohio\u2019s 88 counties).<\/p>\n

On the high end, eight counties had unemployment rates of 9.5 percent or above in November, with the highest being Pike County, at 11.9 percent, followed by, in order, Meigs (10.4 percent), Jefferson (9.9 percent), Adams, Monroe and Scioto at 9.8 percent, Morgan (9.7 percent) and Ottawa (9.5 percent).<\/p>\n

The adjusted statewide unemployment rate was 6.5 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Van Wert County again bucked the statewide trend when it comes to unemployment rates, according to figures released Friday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. In October, the county was one of the few where the jobless rate increased, while in November, when three-fourths of Ohio\u2019s counties (66 of […]<\/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-33191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 02:59:29","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\/33191","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=33191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}