unemployment

More Northwest Indiana residents are looking for work.

Lake County continues to have Indiana's highest unemployment rate. Lake County's May unemployment rate was 4.2 percent, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, up from 3.9 percent the month before. Porter County's rate stayed just above the state average, going from 2.3 percent in April to 2.7 in May.

Unemployment rates continue to drop in Northwest Indiana. Lake County had a March unemployment rate of 4.6 percent, down from five percent the month before and 7.5 percent in March of last year but still the highest in Indiana. Porter County's rate dropped from 3.2 percent in February to three percent last month.

Local unemployment rates moved higher following the holiday period, but they're still lower than last January's numbers. Lake County's January unemployment rate jumped to 4.2 percent, up from 2.8 percent the month before but down from 7.9 percent in January of 2021. Porter County's unemployment rate rose a percentage point to 2.6 percent, roughly half of what it was last January.

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