Local Unemployment Rate Increasing

March 15, 2016

The latest job numbers released  Monday show the unemployment level increasing in the three-county North Escambia area

Escambia County’s seasonably adjusted unemployment rate increased from 5.0 percent in December to 5.3 percent in January.  There were 7,410 people reported unemployed  during the period. One year ago, unemployment in Escambia County was 6.3 percent.

Santa Rosa County unemployment increased from 4.4 percent to 4.7 percent from December to January.. Santa Rosa County had a total of  3,476 persons still unemployed. The year-ago unemployment rate in Santa Rosa County was 5.2  percent.

In Escambia County, Alabama, unemployment increased from 6.8 percent in December to 7.3 percent in December. That represented 1,044 people unemployed in the county during the month. One year ago, the unemployment rate in Escambia County, Alabama, was 7.2 percent.

Florida’s vunemployment rate was 5 percent in January, down from a revised 5.1 percent in December. Both the December and November rates were initially announced at 5 percent before being adjusted to 5.1 percent. The January jobless rate represents 492,000 Floridians being out of work from a labor force of 9.76 million. The state’s unemployment mark, which a year ago was at 5.7 percent, sits just behind the national mark of 4.9 percent.

Alabama’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, at 6.2 percent in January, was down from December’s rate of 6.3 percent and was above the year-ago rate of 6.0 percent.

The jobless numbers released by Florida and Alabama do not include persons that have given up on finding a job and are no longer reported as unemployed.

The News Service of Florida contributed to this report.

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2 Responses to “Local Unemployment Rate Increasing”

  1. William on March 17th, 2016 12:28 pm

    >Only 4 people showed up at the Escambia County job fair last Monday at the Molino Community Center. The fair was well advertised.

    Where was it advertised? We didn’t know a thing about it here at NorthEscambia.com in order to tell our readers.

    FOLLOW-UP — Turns out we did receive an email announcement that the county was accepting applications for summer landscaping positions…we just did not notice at the bottom of the mail that application assistance was available Monday in Molino. (It wasn’t being called a “job fair” in the email.)

    Applications are still being accepted — http://www.myescambia.com/jobs

  2. Richard on March 17th, 2016 9:00 am

    Only 4 people showed up at the Escambia County job fair last Monday at the Molino Community Center. The fair was well advertised. Have to think some folks in this county are not interested in working. Not too late to apply for a job. Go to Myescamiba.com

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