Health & Fitness
St. Croix County July Unemployment at 6.3 Percent
Wisconsin's July unemployment rates announced: St. Croix's rate was estimated at 6.3% which continues to run below the 13-county Twin Cities metro rate of 7.5%.
Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Scott Baumbach announced the preliminary July unemployment rates for Wisconsin’s 72 counties on August 24th. St. Croix’s rate was estimated at 6.3% which is down from the June rate of 6.5% but higher than May’s rate of 5.7%. One year ago, the county’s unemployment rate was estimated at 6.4%.
DWD said 69 of the state’s 72 counties had lower unemployment rates or in July compared to June, and one county, Pierce, reported no change.
Only nine counties had unemployment rates lower than St. Croix in July. Dane County recorded the lowest rate at 5.4% (down from 5.9% in June), followed by Iowa at 5.5% (down from 6.2% in June), Calumet at 5.8% (down from 6.4%), Buffalo at 6.0% (down from 6.4%), and Trempealeau at 6.0% (down from 6.4%). Menominee County had the highest rate in July at 20.2% (down form 20.5%), followed by Lincoln at 10.8%, Rusk at 10.5%, and Iron at 10.0%.
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"While July’s unemployment rate in St. Croix County is lower than a month earlier, there is no improvement from the July 2010 rate," said William Rubin, executive director of St. Croix Economic Development Corporation. "Meanwhile St. Croix’s rate continues to run below the 13-county Twin Cities metro rate of 7.5%."
Pierce County’s rate in July was 6.5% (no change from June) and Polk County was at 8.5% (down from 8.6%). The 13-county Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington MN-WI metro had reported an unemployment rate of 7.5% in July, up from June’s rate of 6.9% and May’s rate of 6.3%.
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The preliminary (seasonally adjusted) unemployment rate for Wisconsin in July was estimated at 7.8% which is up from June’s rate of 7.6% and May’s rate of 7.4% . The state’s seasonally adjusted rate was 8.2% one year ago.
The preliminary unemployment rate in the U.S. in July was estimated at 9.1%, down slightly from June’s rate of 9.2% and the same as May’s rate of 9.1%. One year ago the U.S. rate was estimated at 8.2%.
July’s estimates are preliminary and are subject to revision within the next few weeks.