{"id":51956,"date":"2014-05-21T06:31:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=51956"},"modified":"2014-05-22T07:02:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T12:02:56","slug":"unemployment-rate-drops-below-5-percent-in-vw-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/05\/21\/unemployment-rate-drops-below-5-percent-in-vw-county\/","title":{"rendered":"County jobless rate lowest in 8 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/ODJFS information<\/i><\/p>\n

It has been nearly eight years since Van Wert County has had an unemployment rate lower than 5 percent. Figures released on Tuesday showed the county\u2019s jobless rate in April was 4.6 percent. The good economic news was statewide, with all 88 Ohio counties reporting declines in individual unemployment rates.<\/p>\n

\"Jobless<\/a>According to figures compiled by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, in conjunction with the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, Van Wert County\u2019s total workforce in April remained the same as in March at 13,500, while the number of people employed last month rose 100 to 12,900 and the number of unemployed county residents fell 100, to 600.<\/p>\n

With the exception of Allen County, which reported an unemployment rate of 5.4 percent in April, down eight-tenths of a percent from March\u2019s rate of 6.2 percent, all neighboring counties reported unemployment rates below 5 percent.<\/p>\n

Leading the area \u2013 and the state \u2013 was Mercer County, with an unemployment rate of 3.0 percent, down seventh-tenths of a percent from March\u2019s rate of 3.7 percent. Auglaize County was second with a jobless rate of 3.6 percent, down a half-percent from the county\u2019s 4.1 percent rate in March.<\/p>\n

Putnam County\u2019s unemployment rate dropped 1.1 percent, from 5.5 percent in March to 4.4 percent last month. Paulding County jobless numbers dropped a full percentage point, from 5.6 percent in March to a tie with Van Wert County in April at 4.6 percent.<\/p>\n

In addition to Mercer and Auglaize counties, four other Ohio counties had unemployment rates at or below 4.0 percent. The others were Holmes County (3.4 percent), Delaware County (3.6 percent), Union County (3.8 percent) and Hancock County (4.0 percent).<\/p>\n

In the meantime, some major improvements were seen at the high end of the unemployment scale. Only four counties had unemployment rates above 8.0 percent in April, with only one of those (Monroe County, 10.7 percent) exceeding 10 percent. The others with unemployment rates above 8.0 percent include Pike County (9.0 percent), Morgan County (8.6 percent) and Meigs County (8.5 percent).<\/p>\n

The comparable rate for Ohio as a whole was 5.3 percent in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/ODJFS information It has been nearly eight years since Van Wert County has had an unemployment rate lower than 5 percent. Figures released on Tuesday showed the county\u2019s jobless rate in April was 4.6 percent. The good economic news was statewide, with all 88 Ohio counties reporting declines in individual unemployment rates. According to […]<\/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-51956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 04:55:55","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\/51956","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=51956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}