Delayed Employment Report Has Good News for Orange County

California's monthly employment report, delayed for two months by the federal government shutdown, shows the unemployment rate in Orange County declined from 6.2 percent in August to 5.8 percent in October.

The report from the Employment Development Department on Friday showed that 1,533,200 people were employed in the county in October, 29,200 more than at the beginning of the year. The unemployment rate in January was 7.1 percent.

Orange County's unemployment rate is much lower than for California as a whole, which was 8.7 percent in October, down from 8.9 percent in August. 

Here are the unemployment rates in October for individual cities and communities in Orange County covered by Patch:

• Aliso Viejo - 3.0%
  
• Dana Point - 4.2%
  
• Fountain Valley - 4.8%
  
• Laguna Beach - 4.3%
  
• Laguna Niguel - 4.5%
  
• Lake Forest - 4.0%
• Los Alamitos - 3.2%
  
• Mission Viejo - 4.2%
  
• Newport Beach - 3.6%
• Rancho Santa Margarita - 3.7%
  
• Rossmoor - 3.6%
  
• San Clemente - 4.7%
  
• San Juan Capistrano - 5.1%
  
• Seal Beach - 4.3%