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Unemployment numbers for December released;
Boundary County little changed |
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January 23, 2015 |
December Unemployment Numbers:
Boundary County December 2014 unemployment
figures are up only slightly from the month
before, but are clearly improved over the
December figures of a year ago.
In data released today by the Idaho Department
of Labor, Boundary County had a labor force of
4,366 individuals in December, 248 of whom were
unemployed, for an unemployment rate of 5.7% for
the month of December. The month before,
November 2014, Boundary County's unemployment
was 5.6%.
In comparing nearby Idaho counties, Bonner
County's December unemployment rate was 5.5%
(with a total workforce of 18,326), and Kootenai
County had a 4.3% unemployment rate (workforce
of 73, 286).
For the entire state, Idaho had a December
unemployment rate of 3.7%. The rate for the
entire United States for December 2014 was 5.6%.
All of these figures are from
seasonally-adjusted data.
The county with Idaho's highest unemployment in
December is Clearwater County (the Orofino
area), with 8.6% unemployed. The state's best
numbers come from Gooding County with only 2.8%
of 8,727 workers unemployed.
Annual averages for the entire year of 2014:
Boundary County averaged 6.4% unemployment for
2014
Bonner County 6.6% unemployment for 2014
Kootenai County 5.3% unemployment for 2014
All of Idaho: 4.6% average unemployment for the
year 2014
All of the United States: 6.2% unemployment for
2014
Below is a list of unemployment numbers for all
Idaho counties, first listed from lowest to
highest. The second chart lists all Idaho
counties alphabetically:
Source:
Idaho Department of Labor, Communications and
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