When the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services released unemployment rate data earlier this week, Delaware County saw its rate fall below 3%.
The 2.8% rate in December was the lowest in the Columbus metropolitan region, just a tenth of a percent below that of adjacent Union County. The rate the month before was 3.0%, and a year before it was at 3.5%.
Ohio’s unemployment rate was 4.2% in December 2019, unchanged from November. Ohio’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased 9,800 over the month, from a revised 5,600,800 in November to 5,610,600 in December 2019.
The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in December was 243,000, down 4,000 from 247,000 in November. The number of unemployed has decreased by 24,000 in the past 12 months from 267,000. The December unemployment rate for Ohio decreased from 4.6% in December 2018.
The U.S. unemployment rate for December was 3.5%, unchanged from November and down from 3.9% in December 2018.
Across Ohio, Mercer County had the lowest unemployment rate at 2.5%, while Monroe County’s rate was the highest at 8.9%.
