Sonoma County Unemployment Rate Remains Below 3 Percent

SONOMA COUNTY, CA — The unemployment rate last month in Sonoma County remained at 2.8 percent — 7,300 people were without work — which was on par with the November 2017 rate and substantially lower than in December 2016 when the rate was 3.6 percent.

Monte Rio had an unemployment rate of 6.3 percent in December — the highest among cities and census-designated places in Sonoma County. Petaluma's rate was 2.2 percent; in Rohnert Park it was 2.9 percent; Cotati, 3.8 percent; Healdsburg, 2.4 percent; Sebastopol, 2.4 percent; Sonoma, 2.6 percent; Windsor, 2.4 percent; Forestville, 4.3 percent; and in Cloverdale, 3.4 percent of the city's workforce were unemployed.

Across the San Francisco Bay Area, unemployment rates were below five percent in all nine counties last month, the EDD reported. San Mateo County had the lowest rate at 2.1 percent, followed by Marin County at 2.3 percent and San Francisco at 2.4 percent.

Solano County had the highest rate at 4.1 percent.

In Santa Clara and Sonoma counties, unemployment was below three percent. Alameda and Contra Costa counties reported unemployment of 3 and 3.1, respectively.

Statewide, unemployment was 4.3 percent, compared with 4.1 percent nationwide.

Bay City News Service contributed to this report.

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