Unemployment was 4.7 percent in Shelby County in February, down from 5.1 in January, according to the latest data from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Office of Workforce Development, Bureau of Labor Market Information.
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The state’s unemployment rate dropped slightly from January 2015 to this year, going from 5.9 percent to 5.8 percent. “At 3.1 percent, we’re starting to get closer to the statewide growth rate” of 3.4 percent.
Of those counties that share a boundary with Crawford County, Wyandot County has the lowest rate of unemployment at 4.3 percent and Huron County has the highest at 9.3.
The Wilmington-metro region saw a similar fate, as the unemployment rate ticked up from 5.7 percent in January 2015 to 5.8 percent in January 2016.
Grants Pass(Josephine County) 6.0 percent, down from 6.2 percent.
Compared with a year earlier, the jobless rate picked up 0.26 percentage points, the DGBAS report showed, as firms in different sectors cut headcount to cope with softening business.
Unemployment was highest among people with university degrees or higher at 4.9 percent, followed by 4.27 percent for those with only college diplomas, the report said. The counties with the highest rates, other than Monroe, were: Noble, 11.0; Morgan, 10.8; Meigs, 10.2; and Adams, 10.0 percent.
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Hancock County’s unemployment rate declined to 4.1 percent in February from 4.4 percent in January, the state reported.
