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Category: Economics and Employment
Date: 27 December 2019 In this article we focus on the unemployment rate for October 2019 for the state of Wyoming. Wyoming is the state with the smallest labor force with under 300 000 people. All data obtained from from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Unemployment rate per county in Wyoming for October 2019
So first up lets take a look at the unemployment rate per county of Wyoming for the month of October 2019. The summary below shows the unemployment rate per county in Wyoming sorted from highest unemployment rate to lowest unemployment rate.
Sublette county in Wyoming had the highest unemployment rate in October 2019, with its unemployment rate sitting at 4.2%, while Weston county had the lowest unemployment in Wyoming at 2,4% during October 2019
- Sublette County: 4.2
- Fremont County: 3.9
- Natrona County: 3.7
- Big Horn County: 3.5
- Goshen County: 3.5
- Park County: 3.5
- Campbell County: 3.4
- Hot Springs County: 3.4
- Uinta County: 3.4
- Washakie County: 3.4
- Laramie County: 3.3
- Sweetwater County: 3.3
- Lincoln County: 3
- Carbon County: 2.9
- Platte County: 2.9
- Albany County: 2.8
- Johnson County: 2.8
- Sheridan County: 2.8
- Converse County: 2.7
- Crook County: 2.7
- Teton County: 2.7
- Niobrara County: 2.5
- Weston County: 2.4
Sublette county in Wyoming had the highest unemployment rate in October 2019, with its unemployment rate sitting at 4.2%, while Weston county had the lowest unemployment in Wyoming at 2,4% during October 2019
The image below shows the unemployment rate per county in Wyoming. And there are 23 counties in the state of Wyoming. The image below is basically a graphical representation of the summary provided above. 3 counties in Wyoming had unemployment rates greater than the national USA average, while 20 counties in Wyoming had unemployment rates lower than the national USA average.
Unemployment rate per county in the state of Wyoming
Next up we will take a look at the net change in the unemployment rate per county in Wyoming. 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 Wyoming sorted from the state that shows the largest increase in unemployment to the county that had the biggest decline in their unemployment rate.
- Goshen County: 0.5
- Sublette County: 0.3
- Hot Springs County: 0.1
- Washakie County: 0
- Platte County: -0.1
- Teton County: -0.1
- Albany County: -0.2
- Niobrara County: -0.2
- Crook County: -0.3
- Lincoln County: -0.3
- Laramie County: -0.4
- Big Horn County: -0.5
- Campbell County: -0.5
- Park County: -0.5
- Sweetwater County: -0.5
- Converse County: -0.6
- Carbon County: -0.7
- Natrona County: -0.7
- Sheridan County: -0.7
- Uinta County: -0.7
- Fremont County: -0.8
- Weston County: -0.8
- Johnson County: -0.9
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The image below shows the net change in the unemployment rate per county in Wyoming with the blue colours representing counties that saw increases in their unemployment rate and 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.
Net change in unemployment per county in the state of Wyoming
Sublette county has the highest unemployment rate in the state of Wyoming, and Goshen county showed the highest rate of increase in its unemployment rate over the last 12 months with the county's unemployment rate increasing by 0.5% from 3% to 3.5%. Johnson county saw the largest decrease in its unemployment rate with it decreasing from 3.7% 12 months ago to the current 2.8% as at October 2019.