After going up in the month of May, Indiana County’s unemployment rate went down in June.
The state department of Labor and Industry has reported that Indiana County’s unemployment rate in June went down three-tenths of a percentage point to 4.3%. That ties Indiana County with two other counties for 45th in the state.
Among the neighboring counties, Westmoreland and Jefferson tied at 3.9%, Armstrong checked in with a 4.1% unemployment rate, and Clearfield and Cambria counties both had 4.5% unemployment. The highest unemployment rate in the state was 6.2% and that was in both Forest and Snyder counties, while Chester County had the lowest unemployment rate in the state at 2.7%
Total non-farm jobs in the county went down by 1600 jobs to 30,900 in June, which is what experts anticipated because of the end of the school year.
