The Unemployment rate for Livingston County is down slightly after the slight increase for August. In September, in August, Livingston County’s Unemployment rate is 2%, down from 2.4% in August. In September 2020, the rate was 2.7%.
Livingston County is not the lowest of the local counties this month, that honor goes to Chariton County, which dropped from 2.5% to 1.8%
Looking at the area counties, from lowest to highest…
Chariton…………. 1.8%
Livingston………. 2.0%
Grundy………….. 2.2%
Daviess…………. 2.6%
Linn………………. 2.9%
Sullivan………….. 2.9%
Carroll…………… 3.0%
Caldwell…………. 4.3%
The State of Missouri’s Unemployment rate dropped to 2.9%, and the national rate fell to 4.6%.
