The county’s unemployment rate broke another record in November, dipping to 1.5%, the lowest it has been in at least the past five years.
It marks the fifth consecutive month the unemployment rate has gone down in Johnson County. The jobless rate was 3.5% in June, 3% in July, 2.9% in August, 2.1% in September and 1.9% in October. The October rate was also the lowest it had been in the past five years at the time.
November’s rate was significantly better than the 3.7% jobless rate in November 2020, even as many businesses were almost fully recovered from coronavirus pandemic-related lockdown measures.
Of 92 Indiana counties, just 10 had lower unemployment rates than Johnson County in November. The county’s jobless rate is also lower than the state’s rate of 2.1%.
Overall, more than 81,800 Johnson County residents had jobs last month, while fewer than 1,300 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.
For the second consecutive month, LaGrange County, in northeast Indiana, and Union County, in eastern Indiana, had the lowest unemployment rates at 1.2%. Also for the second consecutive month, Howard County (Kokomo), had the highest rate at 4.7%.
