Outlook brightens in Placer County
Roseville, CA- Placer County unemployment rate for the latest reporting period is 9.8%, according to California’s Employment Development Department.
The rate marks of sizeable drop from the previous month’s unemployment rate of 12.8%. Placer County currently has the 11th lowest unemployment rate in the state. Sacramento County posted a 12.5% rate, placing it 40th in the state.
California counties under 10% unemployment
| LASSEN | 8.60% |
| TRINITY | 8.60% |
| MARIN | 8.80% |
| MODOC | 8.80% |
| SAN MATEO | 9.20% |
| SANTA CLARA | 9.30% |
| SIERRA | 9.30% |
| INYO | 9.40% |
| YOLO | 9.50% |
| CALAVERAS | 9.60% |
| PLACER | 9.80% |
| SONOMA | 9.80% |
| SAN LUIS OBISPO | 9.90% |
California’s overall unemployment rate stands at 13.7% and remains above the rate during the Great Recession.
The dropping unemployment rate along with Placer County recently being removed from the state’s Covid-19 watch list offers encouraging news and may suggest that the worst of the crisis may be behind us in both health and economic terms.
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Source: CA EDD