Pleasant Hill's Unemployment Rate Is Lower Than State: EDD

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA – Contra Costa County has among the lowest unemployment rate in the Bay Area, with only 5 percent of the workforce unemployed, according to the latest report from the state's Employment Development Department.

In Pleasant Hill specifically, 800 people of the city's 18,500-member workforce were jobless in July for a 4.2 percent average, the agency says.

Preliminary estimates for July unemployment in California were released last week, and revealed that all but one of the nine Bay Area counties had unemployment rates below the statewide average, EDD data shows.
Solano County, with a 6 percent rate, was the only county with a higher rate than the state's 5.5 percent, which was up 0.1 percent from June.

The lowest unemployment rate was in San Mateo County, where only 3.4 percent of the workforce was unemployed. The unemployment rate in Marin County and in San Francisco was also less than 4 percent.

Here is a breakdown of the unemployment rates in Contra Costa County, as reported by the EDD:

• Contra Costa County - 5%
• Alamo CDP - 2.5%
• Antioch city - 6.9%
• Bay Point CDP - 9.5%
• Bethel Island CDP - 6.6%
• Brentwood city - 4.2%
• Byron CDP - 6.5%
• Clayton city - 4.4%
• Clyde CDP - 4.1%
• Concord city - 5.4%
• Crockett CDP - 3.2%
• Danville town - 4.0%
• Diablo CDP - 0.0%
• Discovery Bay CDP - 5.0%
• East Richmond Heights CDP - 5.1%
• El Cerrito city - 4.4%
• El Sobrante CDP - 4.7%
• Hercules city - 3.3%
• Kensington CDP - 1.9%
• Knightsen CDP -4.9%
• Lafayette city - 2.7%
• Martinez city - 4.5%
• Moraga town - 3.4%
• Mountain View CDP - 9.8%
• Oakley city - 6.2%
• Orinda city - 2.4%
• Pacheco CDP - 7.7%
• Pinole city - 4.2%
• Pittsburg city - 6.0%
• Pleasant Hill city - 4.2%
• Port Costa CDP- 0.0%
• Richmond city - 5.8%
• Rodeo CDP - 5.3%
• Rollingwood CDP - 6.3%
• San Pablo city - 7.7%
• San Ramon city - 3.3%
• Tara Hills CDP - 10.0%
• Vine Hill CDP - 10.7%
• Walnut Creek city - 3.4%

The San Francisco Bay Area has recorded low unemployment rates in the past year or more as the technology industry fuels a good portion of the economy.

– Bay City News Service and Renee Schiavone contributed to this report. Image via Shutterstock.