Associated Press
Monroe County had the state’s lowest unemployment rate at 3.5%.
Florida’s unemployment rate was 5% in June, up 0.1 percentage point from the month before, according to statistics released by the state on Friday.
Florida’s June unemployment was still lower than the national rate of 5.9% and down 6.6 percentage points from a year ago. There were 523,000 unemployed Floridians out of a workforce of 10.4 million people.
Monroe County had the state’s lowest unemployment rate at 3.5%, followed by St. Johns County at 4% and Okaloosa County, also at 4%.
Hendry and Putnam counties had the highest unemployment rate at 7.6%, followed by Citrus, Osceola and Sumter counties at 7.2%.
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Republished with permission from The Associated Press.
One comment
Tom
July 17, 2021 at 9:23 pm
The Governor rightly suspended the federal unemployment payment. If will take another 30 days to funnel through. Florida rate will drop 1 to 2 pts. Florida’s growth is to strong and job opportunities great for it not to drop 2 or 3 pts.
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