Elsinore, Wildomar Unemployment Rates Lower Than County Average

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — Despite losses in some sectors, Riverside County's unemployment rate was unchanged over a two-month period to mark the end of 2018, state officials reported Friday. The jobless rate in December, based on preliminary estimates, was 4.1 percent — the same as in November, according to the California Employment Development Department.

As for Lake Elsinore and Wildomar, Elsinore's unemployment was 4.0 percent and Wildomar's was 3.9 percent, according to state data.

The countywide rate was three-tenths of a percentage point lower than the year- ago level, when countywide unemployment stood at 4.4 percent, figures showed.

Roughly 46,000 residents were out of work in December, and 1,063,600 were employed, according to the EDD.

The unincorporated community of Cabazon had the highest unemployment rate countywide at 10.8 percent, followed by Coachella at 10.7 percent and Winchester at 7.3 percent.

Here are the preliminary unemployment rates for cities and census designated places across Riverside County, courtesy of the EDD:

• Riverside County: 4.1%
  
• Banning city: 4.8%
• Beaumont city: 3.4%
• Bermuda Dunes CDP: 3.5%
• Blythe city: 4.8%
• Cabazon CDP: 10.8%
• Calimesa city: 5.0%
• Canyon Lake city: 2.6%
• Cathedral City city: 3.2%
• Cherry Valley CDP: 3.2%
• Coachella city: 10.7%
• Corona city: 3.2%
• Desert Hot Springs city: 5.3%
• East Hemet CDP: 5.6%
• Eastvale City city: 2.9%
• El Cerrito CDP: 2.5%
• Hemet city: 5.7%
• Highgrove CDP: 6.5%
• Home Gardens CDP: 3.2%
• Homeland CDP: 4.7%
• Idyllwild Pine Cove CDP: 3.0%
• Indian Wells city: 3.1%
• Indio city: 5.2%
• Jurupa Valley city: 3.5%
• La Quinta city: 3.8%
• Lake Elsinore city: 4.0%
• Lakeland Village CDP: 7.0%
• Lakeview CDP: 4.4%
• March AFB CDP: 5.9%
• Mecca CDP: 4.8%
• Menifee city: 4.0%
• Moreno Valley city: 4.2%
• Murrieta city: 3.2%
• Norco city: 3.5%
• Nuevo CDP: 4.3%
• Palm Desert city: 3.5%
• Palm Springs city: 3.7%
• Perris city: 4.6%
• Rancho Mirage city: 2.6%
• Riverside city: 3.6%
• Romoland CDP: 4.5%
• San Jacinto city: 5.2%
• Temecula city: 3.3%
• Thousand Palms CDP: 3.1%
• Valle Vista CDP: 5.2%
• Wildomar CDP: 3.9%
• Winchester CDP: 7.3%
• Woodcrest CDP: 4.4%

The combined unemployment rate for Riverside and San Bernardino counties last month was 4 percent, up from 3.9 percent in November, officials said.

Bi-county data indicated payrolls expanded by the widest margin in the retail trade sector, which added 2,000 positions, as outlets remained in hiring mode for the holiday shopping season.

The health services and agricultural sectors together added 2,100 jobs, while the manufacturing, hospitality, information services and mining sectors recorded no changes in payrolls.

The construction, financial services, professional services and public sectors shed a combined 4,400 positions regionally in December, with another 1,200 losses posted in miscellaneous unclassified industries.

According to the EDD, the state's non-seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in December was 4.1 percent.

— City News Service contributed to this report / Image via Shutterstock