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White County’s October unemployment rate reached its lowest mark since the end of last year, according to the Georgia Department of Labor.
White County’s October unemployment rate reached its lowest mark since the end of last year, according to the Georgia Department of Labor.
October’s preliminary rate of 2.4% is down from 3.2% in September. The county’s jobless rate has decrease in five of the past six reports since spiking from March’s 3.5% to 10.5% in April amid the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The current 2.4% October rate is the same as what was recorded in October 2019. In the new report, the county was listed as having a preliminary count of 394 unemployed out of a civilian labor force of 16,734. There were 1,761 people listed as unemployed in April.
Regional unemployment also declined in October The 13-county Georgia Mountains Local Workforce Development Area, which includes White County, saw its rate drop from 3.9% in September to 3% in October, according to the Labor Department. The rate was 2.7% the same time last year.
The Georgia Mountains region saw its labor force grow by 13,664 to a total of 348,344 in October. The number of employed rose by 16,522 to a total of 338,036.
Georgia’s unemployment rate decreased to 4.5% in October, the lowest it has been since the state began facing the pandemic outbreak. The preliminary number is down from 6.2% in September and a record high of 12.2% in April. The state jobless rate was at 3.1% in October 2019.