Indiana County’s unemployment rate spiked over the month of August.
After dropping to 3.5 percent in the month of July, Indiana county’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate went up 1.1 percentage points to 4.6 percent for August. The rate is still four-tenths of a percentage point lower than the August 2022 rate for the county. The state’s unemployment rate for August was 3.5 percent, which remains the lowest rate on record going back to January 1976. The national unemployment rate for August is 3.8 percent.
Indiana County’s rate was the highest in our region. The lowest was in Westmoreland County at 3.8 percent. Clearfield County’s rate was next highest at 4.3 percent, Cambria county had 4.4 percent, and Jefferson and Armstrong counties had a 4.5 percent rate,
The total number of non-farm jobs in Indiana County went up by 200 to 27,300. Jobs in all nine published super-sectors were essentially unchanged over the month.
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