More than one in ten working age people in Franklin County were looking for work in January according to numbers released Wednesday by the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation.
Franklin County’s unemployment rate jumped from 9.2 in December percent to 11.1 percent in January. 534 Franklin County residents were looking for work – that’s nearly 92 more people than were looking for jobs in December.
The average unemployment rate in Florida was 12.2 percent in January. 57 of Florida’s 67 counties had unemployment rates above 10 percent with the highest unemployment in the state in Flagler County at 17.1 percent.
Gulf County saw its unemployment pass 12 percent in January rising from 11.2 percent to 12.2 percent. 773 people were jobless there in January up from 725 in December.
Wakulla County’s unemployment rose from 8.4 percent to 9.2 percent – there are nearly 1500 people looking for work there. Liberty County continues to have the lowest unemployment rate in Florida at 7.5 percent.
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