Politics & Government

Unemployment Up in Wrentham, Plainville, Norfolk and the State


The King Philip area, like the Massachusetts average, saw an across the board small increase in unemployment in June according to the Massachusetts Department of Labor.

Wrentham, with a registered labor force of 5,877 in June, saw an increase in unemployment rates from 6.1 percent to 6.7 percent in June as apposed to May. In June 2012, the unemployment rate was 6.1 percent. Wrentham has a total of 392 persons currently unemployed out of its registered workforce.

Norfolk saw similar numbers, with an increase  from 6.6 percent to 7.2 percent. June 2012 saw a rate of 6.2 percent and Norfolk, out of 5,137 people in the registered workforce,  currently has 368 persons unemployed.

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Plainville saw an increase as well, but only slightly. Plainville had an 8 percent unemployment rate in May and rose to 8.1 percent. Plainville has 393 persons unemployed out of a workforce of 4,963.

Statewide, the June seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate was 7.4 percent, up 0.7 of a percentage point over the month. Over the year, the statewide unadjusted rate was up 0.5 of a percentage point from the June 2012 rate of 6.9 percent.

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In June, over the month job gains occurred in eight of the twelve areas for which estimates are published.  The largest job gains were in the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Barnstable, Framingham, and Worcester areas.

Over the year, eight of the twelve areas added jobs with the largest percentage gains in the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Barnstable, and Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury areas.

The seasonally adjusted statewide June unemployment rate, released on July 18th, was 7.0 percent, up 0.4 of a percentage point from the 6.6 recorded for May and up 0.3 of a percentage point from the 6.7 percent rate posted for June 2012. The statewide seasonally adjusted jobs estimate showed a 2,800 job gain in June following a revised gain of 6,700 jobs in May.

The labor force, unemployment rates and jobs estimates for Massachusetts, and for every other state, are based on several different statistical methodologies specified by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The unadjusted unemployment rates and job estimates for the labor market areas reflect seasonal fluctuations and therefore may show different levels and trends than the statewide seasonally adjusted estimates.

 



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