Indiana County’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate spiked in the month of September.
The rate went up from 3.2%in August to 4.1 last month, an increase of nearly a full percentage point. That’s still lower than where the county’s unemployment rate was last year at this time, where it was 5.4%. Pennsylvania’s unemployment for September is at 3.6% and the national rate is 4.2%.
Westmoreland County’s rate is the lowest in the region at 3.5. Jefferson and Clearfield’s rate is at 3.9, Armstrong and Cambria are tied with Indiana at 4.1, which marks the highest for the region. The lowest unemployment rate is 2.7 in Montour County, while the highest is Cameron at 5.4%
Indiana County’s civilian labor force, which is the number of people working or looking for work went up by 400 to 36,300. The number of unemployed went up by the same amount to 1500 while the number of those employed went up by 200 to 34,900.
