Unemployment Rates Up In Large Labor Markets

The Department of Technology, Management & Budget (DTMB) Labor Market Information system August unemployment rates for August paint a picture of some improvement, but still struggling communities for many of Michigan’s largest cities.

Detroit, Michigan’s largest city, has an estimated August jobless rate of just under 20 percent (19.6). The highest rates came from Highland Park and Pontiac, with 25.5 and 23.7 percent unemployment rates, respectively.

Although an increase from the lowest recent rates of the first quarter of 2012 when Highland park had a rate of 23.3 percent and Pontiac had a rate of 21.6 percent, the August numbers don’t touch the 2009 highs of 36.4 percent jobless in Highland Park and 35.2 percent in Pontiac.

The state’s lowest unemployment numbers came from the western Detroit suburbs of Northville (2.5 percent) and Plymouth (3.3 percent).

posted by PAA Online , Friday, October 12, 2012 10:43 AM
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