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OCALA, Fla. (July 22, 2022) – As expected, the June unemployment rate in the CareerSource Citrus Levy Marion region inched up to 3.8%, a 0.7 percentage point increase over the month but 2.0 percentage points lower than the year ago rate.
The slight increase is in line with what the region typically experiences moving into the summer months with seasonal shifts in education support and agriculture employment, as well as an influx of post-secondary students returning to the area looking for work before returning to school. Likewise, it tracks similar upticks statewide. According to today’s release of preliminary data by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, 66 of Florida’s 67 counties saw unemployment rates increase in June; the lone outlier was Miami-Dade County which dropped 0.1 percentage point.
Across the three-county region, the labor force in June was 209,650, up 1,995 for an increase of 1.0% over the year. There were 7,935 unemployed residents in the region and 201,715 employed.
Levy County continued to hold the lowest unemployment rate (3.5%) in the region followed by Marion County (3.0%) and Citrus County (4.4%). The rates in all three counties rose by 0.2 percentage point.
In the continuing effort to match job seekers with businesses with immediate hiring needs, CareerSource CLM will hold a Healthcare and Human Services Job Fair on July 26 from 4-6 p.m. at One Health Ocala as well as several hiring events, including a virtual one on Aug. 2 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the University of Florida Veterinarian Hospitals in Marion and Alachua counties.
Information about the job fairs is available at careersourceclm.com.
State and local employment reports for July 2022 are scheduled for release on Aug. 19, 2022.
For more, access the region’s jobs report from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity here: June 2022 Employment Overview
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