July Unemployment Up in Warren, Youngstown
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The city of Warren’s unemployment rate in July was up a full percentage point from the month before, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported. According to data released this morning, Warren’s unemployment rate was 10% last month, up from 9% in June. In July 2012, the unemployment rate for the city was 11.2%.
Youngstown’s rate was also higher last month, by slightly less than half of a full point. The city’s unemployment rate in July was 11%, up from 10.6% the month before though down from July 2012’s 11.4%.
County rates were unchanged or up slightly over the month. Mahoning County’s 8.6% unemployment rate in July was up from 8.3% in June, as well as from July 2012’s 8.4%. Trumbull County’s 8.5% rate last month was up from 8.1% the month before, although down from July 2012’s 9.2%. Columbiana County reported an identical 8.2% unemployment rate for all three reporting periods.
The unemployment rate for the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman metropolitan statistical area, which covers Mahoning and Trumbull counties in Ohio and Mercer County in Pennsylvania, was 8.5% in July, up slightly from 8.4% the month before though down from July 2012’s 8.8%. The unemployment rate for the Ohio-only portion of the MSA was 8.6%, up from June’s 8.2% but down from 8.8% the year prior.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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