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Current labor force statistics including the unemployment rate for Delaware and local areas (January 2010 - July 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	424,649	422,791
Employment	389,955	388,670	388,047	388,665	388,788	388,446	387,280
Unemployment	38,271	39,236	39,364	38,461	37,343	36,203	35,511
Unemployment Rate (%)	8.9	9.2	9.2	9.0	8.8	8.5	8.4

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	427,358	426,662
Employment	386,975	383,795	386,791	389,814	388,791	390,208	390,710
Unemployment	40,818	42,075	39,582	36,663	34,472	37,150	35,952
Unemployment Rate (%)	9.5	9.9	9.3	8.6	8.1	8.7	8.4

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	345,598	343,447
Employment	315,604	314,762	315,357	316,672	314,808	313,536	311,995
Unemployment	34,370	34,992	33,208	30,980	29,869	32,062	31,452
Unemployment Rate (%)	9.8	10.0	9.5	8.9	8.7	9.3	9.2

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	72,658	72,277
Employment	65,822	65,218	66,063	66,615	66,318	66,295	66,131
Unemployment	6,727	7,210	6,499	6,109	5,821	6,363	6,146
Unemployment Rate (%)	9.3	10.0	9.0	8.4	8.1	8.8	8.5

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	262,740	261,157
Employment	242,345	241,328	241,375	242,128	240,161	239,241	238,049
Unemployment	24,691	25,175	24,325	22,787	21,744	23,499	23,108
Unemployment Rate (%)	9.2	9.4	9.2	8.6	8.3	8.9	8.8

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	91,962	93,228
Employment	78,808	77,249	79,353	81,071	82,312	84,673	86,530
Unemployment	9,400	9,690	8,757	7,767	6,907	7,289	6,698
Unemployment Rate (%)	10.7	11.1	9.9	8.7	7.7	7.9	7.2

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	31323	31,154
Employment	27,851	27,734	27,739	27,826	27600	27494	27,357
Unemployment	4,214	4,079	4,040	3,744	3571	3829	3,797
Unemployment Rate (%)	13.1	12.8	12.7	11.9	11.5	12.2	12.2

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	14,931	14,703
Employment	13,783	13,725	13,728	13,771	13,659	13,607	13,539
Unemployment	1,014	907	975	1,009	1,029	1,324	1,164
Unemployment Rate (%)	6.9	6.2	6.6	6.8	7.0	8.9	7.9

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	16,536	16,442
Employment	14,746	14,611	14,800	14,924	14,857	14,852	14,815
Unemployment	1,610	1,686	1,544	1,557	1,542	1,684	1,627
Unemployment Rate (%)	9.8	10.3	9.4	9.4	9.4	10.2	9.9

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.