The following is a list of California unemployment statistics.
Many of the counties with the lowest unemployment rates had relatively high levels of income. They were also located in Northern California, with two exceptions:
Orange and
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo (; Spanish for " St. Louis the Bishop", ; Chumash: ''tiłhini'') is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, in the U.S. state of California. Located on the Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly hal ...
counties. The counties with the highest unemployment rates were generally located in inland areas and had lower levels of income.
Unemployment rate has reached 12.4 percent in 2010 which is highest recorded from 1976. Unemployment rates in California reached historic lows in 2000 and 2006. Unemployment rates in California were relatively low during the early 2000s but increased drastically in late 2000s
Statewide unemployment
Data released December 13, 2017 for November 2017.
Unemployment by county
Data released March 7, 2014 for January 2014, except population data (released 2012).
Historical statewide unemployment rates
The
unemployment rate
Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the refere ...
s in this table are annual averages without
seasonal adjustment
Seasonal adjustment or deseasonalization is a statistical method for removing the seasonal component of a time series. It is usually done when wanting to analyse the trend, and cyclical deviations from trend, of a time series independently of the ...
. The 1976-1989 rates are based on the March 2004 benchmark and were last updated April 26, 2005. The 1990-2012 rates are based on the March 2006 benchmark.
See also
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Economy of California
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List of U.S. states by unemployment rate
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Unemployment in the United States
References
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