Tuesday, October 20, 2015
YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning Valley’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in September was 5.2 percent, down from September 2014’s rate of 5.9 percent.
The number of unemployed dropped from 14,700 down to 12,900. The number of employed also dropped from 236,500 reported in September 2014 down to 234,500 in September 2015, according to data released Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
The civilian labor force, or the sum of those employed and unemployed, also dropped from 251,000 in September 2014 down to 247,000 in September 2015.
Ohio’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 4.5 percent in September 2015, down from a revised 4.6 percent in August. Ohio’s nonfarm wage and salary employment decreased 8,600 over the month, from a revised 5,409,500 in August to 5,400,900 in September 2015.
The U.S. unemployment rate for September was 5.1 percent, unchanged from 5.1 percent in August and down from 5.9 percent in September 2014.