Charleston-AP
Jefferson County still has the lowest unemployment
rate in West
Virginia.
Jefferson County's February unemployment rate was
two-point-seven percent. It's the county's fourth
consecutive month of
having the state's lowest jobless rate.
Calhoun County had the highest unemployment rate in
February--
22-point-five percent.
Other counties with low unemployment rates were:
Monongalia, two-point-eight percent; Hancock, four
percent; Hardy
and Berkeley, four-point-three percent; Ohio,
four-point-four percent;
Putnam and Kanawha, four-point-seven percent;
Brooke,
four-point-eight percent; Cabell, four-point-nine
percent; and
Pendleton, five percent.
Other counties with double-digit unemployment rates
were:
Mineral, ten-point-one percent; Ritchie and
Fayette, ten-point-four
percent; Greenbrier, ten-point-five percent;
Summers and
Pleasants, ten-point-six percent; Lincoln,
eleven-point-one percent;
Clay, eleven-point-eight percent; Wetzel,
12-point-one percent;
Braxton and Barbour, 12-point-three percent; Wirt,
12-point-eight
percent; Mason, 12-point-nine percent; Roane,
19-point-one
percent.
West Virginia's overall unemployment rate for
February was
six-point-four percent, the same as January.
A county-by-county list of unemployment figures in February and
comparable figures for a month earlier.
County February January
Barbour 12.3 11.3
Berkeley 4.3 4.0
Boone 7.3 7.8
Braxton 12.3 13.3
Brooke 4.8 5.4
Cabell 4.9 4.3
Calhoun 22.5 22.0
Clay 11.8 11.7
Doddridge 5.6 5.8
Fayette 10.4 10.5
Gilmer 8.6 8.6
Grant 9.2 10.2
Greenbrier 10.5 11.6
Hampshire 7.4 6.1
Hancock 4.0 5.2
Hardy 4.3 4.4
Harrison 6.4 6.6
Jackson 8.3 8.9
Jefferson 2.7 2.6
Kanawha 4.7 4.6
Lewis 9.0 9.1
Lincoln 11.1 11.3
Logan 7.0 7.6
McDowell 8.2 8.3
Marion 6.5 6.8
Marshall 8.3 6.7
Mason 12.9 14.0
Mercer 5.5 5.7
Mineral 10.1 9.7
Mingo 7.5 8.2
Monongalia 2.8 2.9
Monroe 6.2 7.5
Morgan 5.1 4.4
Nicholas 7.4 8.2
Ohio 4.4 4.0
Pendleton 5.0 5.1
Pleasants 10.6 12.4
Pocahontas 7.2 7.2
Preston 7.4 7.9
Putnam 4.7 4.5
Raleigh 5.6 5.9
Randolph 7.8 8.1
Ritchie 10.4 11.5
Roane 19.1 18.2
Summers 10.6 11.3
Taylor 8.1 8.0
Tucker 7.7 7.7
Tyler 8.3 6.6
Upshur 8.0 7.8
Wayne 6.4 6.5
Webster 8.4 7.9
Wetzel 12.1 8.7
Wirt 12.8 12.4
Wood 5.4 5.3
Wyoming 7.2 8.0
W.Va. 6.4 6.4
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