Marshall County’s unemployment rate is up slightly, but it remains below where it was at the same time last year. The county’s October unemployment rate was 2.8 percent, according to the latest report from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
That’s a tenth of a percent higher than September, but down from 3.1 percent in October of 2018. However, the number of people employed actually went up from September but down from last October, following a similar change in Marshall County’s labor force.
The trend was similar at the state level. Indiana’s non-seasonally adjusted rate was three percent for October, while the U.S. as a whole was unchanged from the previous month at 3.3 percent.
Kosciusko and Pulaski counties had the lowest unemployment rate in the area at 2.7 percent. Starke and LaPorte counties were highest at 3.5 percent.
