Local Unemployment Rates Continue To Trend Downward

Monday, November 29, 2021 at 9:31 AM

All five southeastern Indiana counties in Eagle Country had a jobless rate below 2.3 percent in October.

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INDIANAPOLIS - Local unemployment rates continue to fall.

According to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, all five southeastern Indiana counties in Eagle Country had a jobless rate of 2.3 or below in October.

Ohio County led the way with the lowest unemployment rate of the five counties at 1.8 percent.

The statewide average for the month of October is 3.3 percent.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment statistical models used to calculate labor force data have been greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Effective October 2021, BLS changed its approach to detecting and adjusting for outliers in monthly statewide data. The distortions made to January-August 2021 statewide labor force estimates will be modified during the annual benchmarking process in February 2022.

	October 2021	September 2021	October 2020
US	4.6	4.8	6.9
Indiana	3.3	3.5	5.6
Dearborn	2.1	2.4	4.5
Franklin	2.0	2.2	3.7
Ohio	1.8	2.0	4.4
Ripley	2.1	2.3	4.1
Switzerland	2.3	2.7	5.4

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