St. Lawrence County’s unemployment rate in January fell more than a full percentage point from the same month in 2015, according to the state Department of Labor.
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The data comes after last week’s jobs report showed that employers added 242,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate stayed 4.9 percent.
Preble County saw the largest increase in the area from 4.6 percent in December to 5.9 percent in January.
The January numbers account for unemployed individuals actively seeking work, waiting to be called back to a job from which laid off, or waiting to report within 30 days to a new payroll job, according to the state. It was 6.3 percent in January 2015. That was down from the 5.5 percent unemployment rate in January 2015.
Meanwhile, Georgia’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate for January was 5.4 percent, down from 5.5 percent in December.
The rate went from 8.7 percent in January 2015 to 7.5 percent the first month of this year, the DOL said.
Jobless rates across OH are at their lowest levels in more than a decade, with the state unemployment rate hitting a 14-year low of 4.4 percent in October.
The number of workers unemployed in OH in January was 279,000, up 6,000 from 273,000 in December. Most of the job gains came in professional and business services, 23,200, or 5 percent; trade, transportation and warehousing, 18,500, or 3.3 percent; leisure and hospitality, 17,700, or.
Metro Dalton had the highest at 7.2 percent.
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Among New York’s 15 metropolitan areas listed by the state, the unemployment rate in Buffalo Niagara was the ninth-lowest. Continuing claims are reported with a one-week lag.
