Crook County: The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 13.5 percent in October from 13.8 percent in September, and improved from 14.4 percent in October 2011.
This October marked the first time since October 2008 that Crook County did not post the highest county-level unemployment rate in the state. Still, the county’s unemployment rate remained 4.9 percentage points above Oregon's.
SHG
About 9%
Sacramento County = 10.2% (not seasonally adjusted).
Population = 1.4 million.
6.3 percent in September 2012
8.6 - where I live
4.9 - where I work
Placer = 8.9%
El Dorado = 9.0%
Yolo = 9.7%
Solano = 9.3%
Mendocino (where I do a lot of Forest boundary) = 8.7%
Just for fun:
San Francisco = 6.8%
September
Hometown 3.9
Where I live now 6.2
Not sure where to find October data.
Trigg County Kentucky
Here is what I just found -
2007 5.5%
2008 7.9%
2009 15.3%
2010 12.2%
2011 10.1%
June 2012 8.8%
We lost a major employer that was involved in car parts. Many people are now having to commute a pretty good ways to new jobs.
> 4.9 - where I work
Wow...that's good. At my place of employment about 20% don't work. 😉
4.7% Anchorage area
Unemployment Rate in Pulaski County, AR
2012-09: 6.1 Percent
Monthly, Not Seasonally Adjusted, Updated: 2012-10-30 1:57 PM CDT
DDSM:beer:
Well I am starting to see a picture here, my 13.5% along with Oregon's 8.6% rate are both above the national rate for October of 7.9%, in the case of my county we are almost double the national rate!
Some of you guys are reporting local rates that are approaching the level where it is considered full employment.
Just another one of those days where I am left to wonder if I need to relocate?
SHG
Looks to be 5.5% in my county and 5.6 in Virginia in General.
6.3%, not seasonably adjusted.
In this area, anyone that wants a job, has one.
Eleven per cent. Of course, they do not count any of us one-man
surveying shops who work one or two days a week.
6.7 per cent for my county, but the one above me is at 11.8, and the one to the northeast is 17.8 per cent. Ours is one of the strongest in the state, still lots of construction related to rebuilding from the BP spill.
Cleveland County, Oklahoma
4.2% ...we're a hard-workin' bunch. Not many slackers 'round here.
9% in the state of CT, which is as large as some counties...bout 3 million of us nutmeg heads.
Our County is about 3000 SQ miles, BUT only has a population of around 21,000 total, so very rural.
Our entire state of Oregon has about 3.9M population, BUT has 98,380 SQ miles, number nine in the US, you could fit over 17 CT inside our land area.
Obviously rural / urban makes a lot of difference in the employment situation, there are 1000's of SQ miles in Oregon where no one lives.
I just looked up the national numbers for the five states where I have a PLS license:
#51 NV 11.8%
#49 CA 10.2%
#37 OR 8.7%
#36 WA 8.5%
#23 ID 7.1%
I am willing to travel and work anywhere, especially in those five states, BUT since they are all (mostly) in the bottom 1/2 of the rankings nationwide it is no wonder business is slow slow slow. So even working outside of my county with 13.5% unemployment doesn't really help in ANY of the five western states. Other adjacent counties to mine; Deschutes County = 10.9%, Jefferson County = 12.2%.
You guys in the low single digits need to count your blessings!
SHG
