The Georgia Department of Labor recently reported Washington County’s unemployment rate for the month of November 2021.
The latest statistics from the Department of Labor show Washington County with a 2.9 percent unemployment rate, a decrease from the previous month. Washington County’s unemployment rate for the month of October 2021 was 3.2 percent. For November of 2020, Washington County’s unemployment rate was 6.1 percent.
According to data presented by the Georgia Department of Labor’s Workforce Statistics and Economic Research shows the labor force for Washington County during November of last year was 6,783 with 6,585 employed and 198 unemployed. The previous month’s work force was 6,786 with 6,567 employed and 219 unemployed. These numbers are not seasonally adjusted.
Unemployment rates for November 2021 as reported by the Georgia Department of Labor for surrounding counties are as follows:
– Baldwin: 2.7 percent, a decrease from the previous month’s 3.1 percent unemployment rate
– Glascock: 1.8 percent, unchanged from the previous month’s unemployment rate
– Hancock: 3.6 percent, a decrease from the previous month’s unemployment rate of 4.0 percent
– Jefferson: 2.7 percent, a decrease from the previous month’s unemployment rate of 2.9 percent
– Johnson: 2.1 percent, a decrease from the previous month’s unemployment rate of 2.4 percent
– Laurens: 2.4 percent, a decrease from the previous month’s unemployment rate of 2.7 percent.
– Wilkinson: 2.3 percent, a decrease from the previous month’s unemployment rate of 2.5 percent
The Georgia Department of Labor reported that the unemployment rate in the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) was 2.5 percent in November of 2021. This is a decrease from the previous month’s unemployment rate of 2.8 percent. The unemployment rate for the CSRA was 5.2 percent in November of 2020.
The Central Savannah River Area includes the following counties: Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Jenkins, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, Washington, and Wilkes.
Georgia’s “not seasonally-adjusted” unemployment rate for November 2021 was 2.2 percent, a decrease from the previous month’s unemployment rate of 2.5 percent. In November of 2020, the state unemployment rate was 5.3 percent.