January Local Unemployment Numbers

Unemployment Rates increased in January for both Manitowoc and Manitowoc County. Numbers released this afternoon  by the State Department of Workforce Development show the city’s jobless rate rose from three-point-two Percent in December to three-point-eight percent in January but a decrease of one tenth-of-a-percent from January’s 2018 rate of three-point-nine percent. In Manitowoc County three-point-seven-percent of the job force was unemployed-a seventh-tenths percent rise from December’s figure of three-percent but down from the three-point-eight percent rate from December 2018.  Preliminary January 2019 unemployment rates show Manitowoc was one of 13 of the state’s largest thirty-two cities where unemployment rose in January while Manitowoc County is one of 54 of 72 counties where the jobless rate increased.