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Current Labor Force Statistics

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Current labor force statistics including the unemployment rate for Delaware and local areas (January 2010 - June 2010).

Local Area Unemployment Statistics

Delaware Unemployment Statistics
Seasonally Adjusted
Year	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010
Period	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force	428,226	427,906	427,411	427,126	426,131	424,737
Employment	389,955	388,670	388,047	388,665	388,788	388,457
Unemployment	38,271	39,236	39,364	38,461	37,343	36,280
Unemployment Rate (%)	8.9	9.2	9.2	9.0	8.8	8.5

Delaware Unemployment Statistics
Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010
Period	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force	427,793	425,870	426,373	426,477	423,263	427,574
Employment	386,975	383,795	386,791	389,814	388,791	390,234
Unemployment	40,818	42,075	39,582	36,663	34,472	37,340
Unemployment Rate (%)	9.5	9.9	9.3	8.6	8.1	8.7

Wilmington MSA Unemployment Statistics
Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010
Period	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force	349,974	349,754	348,565	347,652	344,677	346,132
Employment	315,604	314,762	315,357	316,672	314,808	313,864
Unemployment	34,370	34,992	33,208	30,980	29,869	32,268
Unemployment Rate (%)	9.8	10.0	9.5	8.9	8.7	9.3

Kent County (Dover MSA) Unemployment Statistics
Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010
Period	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force	72,549	72,428	72,562	72,724	72,139	72,582
Employment	65,822	65,218	66,063	66,615	66,318	66,178
Unemployment	6,727	7,210	6,499	6,109	5,821	6,404
Unemployment Rate (%)	9.3	10.0	9.0	8.4	8.1	8.8

New Castle County Unemployment Statistics
Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010
Period	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force	267,036	266,503	265,700	264,915	261,905	262,963
Employment	242,345	241,328	241,375	242,128	240,161	239,372
Unemployment	24,691	25,175	24,325	22,787	21,744	23,591
Unemployment Rate (%)	9.2	9.4	9.2	8.6	8.3	9.0

Sussex County Unemployment Statistics
Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010
Period	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force	88,208	86,939	88,110	88,838	89,219	92,029
Employment	78,808	77,249	79,353	81,071	82,312	84,684
Unemployment	9,400	9,690	8,757	7,767	6,907	7,345
Unemployment Rate (%)	10.7	11.1	9.9	8.7	7.7	8.0

Wilmington (City) Unemployment Statistics
Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010
Period	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force	32,065	31,813	31,779	31,570	31171	31386
Employment	27,851	27,734	27,739	27,826	27600	27509
Unemployment	4,214	4,079	4,040	3,744	3571	3877
Unemployment Rate (%)	13.1	12.8	12.7	11.9	11.5	12.4

Newark (City) Unemployment Statistics
Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010
Period	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force	14,797	14,632	14,703	14,780	14,688	14,933
Employment	13,783	13,725	13,728	13,771	13,659	13,614
Unemployment	1,014	907	975	1,009	1,029	1,319
Unemployment Rate (%)	6.9	6.2	6.6	6.8	7.0	8.8

Dover (City) Unemployment Statistics
Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010
Period	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force	16,356	16,297	16,344	16,481	16,399	16,526
Employment	14,746	14,611	14,800	14,924	14,857	14,826
Unemployment	1,610	1,686	1,544	1,557	1,542	1,700
Unemployment Rate (%)	9.8	10.3	9.4	9.4	9.4	10.3

The underlying data for the table(s) are available for download by clicking on the download link above. The download will be in Microsoft Excel format, comma delimited.

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Source: Delaware Department of Labor, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.