More Marshall County residents headed back to work in April. The county’s April unemployment rate dropped to three percent, according to the latest report from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
That’s down from 3.9 percent the month before, while the number of Marshall County residents believed to be working increased by more than 800. The April 2021 numbers are a sharp contrast from April of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the county’s unemployment rate over 17 percent.
Kosciusko County has the lowest unemployment rate of Marshall County’s neighbors at 2.9 percent, while Starke County’s is highest at 4.9. Indiana’s non-seasonally adjusted rate dropped to 4.2 percent, while the U.S. as a whole dipped to 5.7 percent.
