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Category: Economics and Employment
Date: 21 December 2019 In this article we focus on the unemployment rate for October 2019 for the state of California. California is the state with the biggest labor force in the United States. All data obtained from from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Unemployment rate per county in California for October 2019
So first up lets take a look at the unemployment rate per county of California for the month of October 2019. The summary below shows the unemployment rate per county in California sorted from highest unemployment rate to lowest unemployment rate.
- Imperial County:21.2
- Tulare County: 8
- Colusa County: 7.3
- Kings County: 6.3
- Kern County: 6.1
- Fresno County: 5.8
- Merced County: 5.8
- Madera County: 5.4
- Sutter County: 5.3
- Alpine County: 5.2
- Yuba County: 5.1
- San Joaquin County: 5
- Del Norte County: 4.9
- Plumas County: 4.9
- Stanislaus County:4.9
- Modoc County: 4.6
- Los Angeles County: 4.5
- Siskiyou County: 4.5
- Glenn County: 4.4
- Trinity County: 4.4
- Tehama County: 4.3
- Lake County: 4.1
- San Benito County: 4.1
- Riverside County: 3.9
- Sierra County: 3.9
- Butte County: 3.8
- Shasta County: 3.8
- Monterey County: 3.7
- Mono County: 3.6
- Tuolumne County: 3.6
- San Bernardino County: 3.5
- Mariposa County: 3.4
- Santa Cruz County: 3.3
- Solano County: 3.3
- Ventura County: 3.3
- Amador County: 3.2
- Calaveras County: 3.2
- Lassen County: 3.2
- Sacramento County: 3.2
- Yolo County: 3.2
- Mendocino County: 3.1
- El Dorado County: 3
- Santa Barbara County: 3
- Humboldt County: 2.9
- Inyo County: 2.9
- Nevada County: 2.9
- Placer County: 2.8
- San Diego County: 2.8
- Contra Costa County: 2.7
- Alameda County: 2.6
- Orange County: 2.5
- San Luis Obispo County: 2.4
- Napa County: 2.3
- Sonoma County: 2.3
- Santa Clara County: 2.2
- Marin County: 2
- San Francisco County: 2
- San Mateo County: 1.8
The image below shows the unemployment rate per state in California on a map. It is basically a graphical representation of the summary provided above. 28 counties in California had unemployment rates greater than the national USA average, while 28 counties in California had unemployment rates lower than the national USA average. 2 counties in California had unemployment rates which was equal to the national USA average.
Next up we will take a look at the net change in the unemployment rate per country in California. The aim of this is to identify if there are specific counties which saw sharp increases or decreases in its unemployment rate over the last 12 months.
The summary below shows the net change in the unemployment rate per county of California, sorted from the county that shows the largest increase in unemployment to the county that had the biggest decline in their unemployment rate.
- Imperial County: 1.5
- Alpine County: 0.2
- Kings County: 0.1
- Los Angeles County:-0.1
- Plumas County: -0.1
- San Benito County: -0.1
- Del Norte County: -0.2
- Napa County: -0.2
- Placer County: -0.2
- San Joaquin County: -0.2
- Sonoma County: -0.2
- Trinity County: -0.2
- Alameda County: -0.3
- Contra Costa County: -0.3
- El Dorado County: -0.3
- Humboldt County: -0.3
- Nevada County: -0.3
- Orange County: -0.3
- San Francisco County: -0.3
- San Mateo County: -0.3
- Santa Barbara County: -0.3
- Santa Clara County: -0.3
- Santa Cruz County: -0.3
- Solano County: -0.3
- Butte County: -0.4
- Calaveras County: -0.4
- Kern County: -0.4
- Madera County: -0.4
- Marin County: -0.4
- Mendocino County: -0.4
- Merced County: -0.4
- Monterey County: -0.4
- Riverside County: -0.4
- Sacramento County: -0.4
- San Bernardino County: -0.4
- San Diego County: -0.4
- San Luis Obispo County: -0.4
- Tehama County: -0.4
- Tulare County: -0.4
- Tuolumne County: -0.4
- Ventura County: -0.4
- Yolo County: -0.4
- Yuba County: -0.4
- Amador County: -0.5
- Glenn County: -0.5
- Lassen County: -0.5
- Shasta County: -0.5
- Stanislaus County: -0.5
- Sutter County: -0.5
- Fresno County: -0.6
- Inyo County: -0.6
- Lake County: -0.7
- Modoc County: -0.7
- Siskiyou County: -0.8
- Colusa County: -0.9
- Mariposa County: -0.9
- Mono County: -0.9
- Sierra County: -1.2
The image below shows the net change in the unemployment rate per country in California with the blue colours representing counties that saw increases in their unemployment rate the lighter brown colors showing counties with moderate decreases in their unemployment rate and the darker brown showing counties that had large decreases in their unemployment rate.
Imperial county has the highest unemployment rate in the state of California, and it saw the sharpest increase in its unemployment rate in the last 12 months of any county in California.