see full report in PDF form from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.
Unemployment is down 0.7 percent locally, thanks to 600 jobs added by local government and private service industry jobs.
An additional 400 jobs in local government here helped bring the September unemployment rate down to an unadjusted 7.3 percent, down from an unadjusted rate of 8.5 percent in August. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Warren County in September was 8.0 percent. For August, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 8.7 percent.
The significant improvement in unemployment, however, does not exactly present a cheery picture for job seekers in Warren County. In August there were 22,400 residents in the total work force. In September that number shrunk to 22,000, a more than 16 percent drop in workers living here.
Manufacturing jobs were reduced in September from 3,400 to 3,300 while local government grew from 1,100 to 1,500. Service providing jobs outside of government grew from 2,900 to 3,100. All figures reported by the Dept. of Labor and Industry are rounded off to the nearest 100.
Total service industry jobs (including local government) now dwarfs the manufacturing segment by a factor of 4. In September, the Dept. of Labor and Industry noted there were 12,800 service industry jobs in the county, not including those working in agriculture.
Of the total 16,100 non-farm jobs in the county, 13,600 were non-government in September.
The 8.0 seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Warren compares favorably with neighboring communities, as well as state and national unemployment rates. The unemployment rate nationally for the same period was 9.8 percent and the state figure was 8.8 percent. Bradford was at 10.9 percent, Erie 9.9, Forest County 11.8, Meadville 11.0, and Oil City unemployment for September was 9.5 percent.
One year ago, the unemployment rate for Warren County was 5.4 percent.
Comments