CALHOUN COUNTY HAS HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE - Jefferson County Has Lowest |
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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.
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