LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County marked another strong month for employment in November, according to the latest report from the California Employment Development Department.
In November, Lake County’s jobless rate was 4.5 percent, tying for the fourth-lowest rate recorded over the past 29 years. The county’s November 2018 unemployment rate was 4.9 percent.
Lake County had its lowest rate in the past three decades – 3.7 percent – in September, as Lake County News has reported.
November’s rate ties with August, also at 4.5 percent. In October, the county recorded a 4.1-percent rate and 4.2 percent in May.
Lake County’s November jobless rate ranks it No. 36 of California’s 58 counties.
Neighboring county jobless rates for November are: Colusa, 10.5 percent; Glenn, 4.7 percent; Mendocino, 3.4 percent; Napa, 2.6 percent; Sonoma, 2.4 percent; and Yolo, 3.6 percent, the report said.
For California as a whole, the report said unemployment remained at a record low of 3.9 percent in November, after registering the same rate in October. State unemployment was 4.1 percent in November 2018.
The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics said the November nationwide unemployment rate was 3.5 percent, down from 3.6 percent in October and 3.7 percent in November 2018.
Across California, the Employment Development Department said employers added 28,400 nonfarm payroll jobs in November, contributing to a record job expansion in California of 117 months, surpassing the long expansion of the 1960s.
California has gained 3,414,700 jobs since the expansion began in February 2010, accounting for more than 15 percent of the nation’s 22,537,000 job gain over the same timeframe, the Employment Development Department said.
Total nonfarm jobs in California’s 11 major industries totaled 17,604,300 in November. The state said total nonfarm jobs increased by 321,800 jobs, a 1.9-percent increase, from November 2018 to November 2019 compared to the U.S. annual gain of 2,204,000 jobs, a 1.5-percent increase.
A monthly federal survey of 5,100 California households which focuses on workers in the economy estimated that the number of Californians holding jobs in November was 18,730,500, an increase of 53,700 from October and up 22,700 from the employment total in November of last year.
The number of unemployed Californians was 761,700 in November, a decrease of 3,700 over the month and down by 39,800 compared with November of last year, based on the survey.
In November, there were 293,595 people receiving Unemployment Insurance benefits during the survey week in November compared to 260,709 in October and 261,022 people in November 2018.
Concurrently, 49,436 people filed new claims in November which was a month-over increase of 10,035 people, the Employment Development Department reported.
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Lake County’s November jobless rate ties for fourth-lowest in three decades
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