The county’s unemployment rate decreased to 2.9% in August, the lowest it has been since March 2020, before businesses shut down temporarily to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
It is also a slight decrease from the 3% jobless rate in July, which was a decrease from the 3.5% rate in June.
August’s rate was significantly better than the 5.7% jobless rate in July 2020, when many businesses were recovering from coronavirus pandemic-related lockdown measures.
Of 92 Indiana counties, just 13 had lower unemployment rates than Johnson County in August. The county’s jobless rate is also lower than the state’s rate of 4%.
Overall, almost 81,600 Johnson County residents had jobs last month, and more than 2,400 members of the eligible workforce did not.
The data comes from a monthly report released by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, which tracks unemployment.
Boone County (Lebanon and Zionsville) had the lowest unemployment rate at 2.4%. Howard County (Kokomo) had the highest rate at 6.8%.
