Metro Atlanta's jobless rate dropped because of an increase in jobs and fewer new layoffs.
Roswell's unemployment rate was down to 5.9 percent in March, three-tenths of a percent lower than the February rate. Alpharetta and Roswell share the lowest unemployment rate in preliminary figures from the Georgia Depatment of Labor. The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that metro Atlanta’s unemployment rate declined to 7.9 percent in March from 8.3 percent in February. The rate was 8.9 percent in March a year ago. The rate declined because of an increase in the number of jobs and fewer new layoffs. Roswell had 2,972 people who are counted as jobless in February, 155 fewer than in January. The number of people employed rose by 158, while the labor force increased by 3 people, up to 50,205 workers. A year ago Roswell's jobless …
North Fulton cities have some of the lowest unemployment rates in the state.
Since Alpharetta's daytime population is almost double the number of people who live in the city, it's not really a surprise that the city had the lowest unemployment rate for October of any municipality in Georgia at 6.1 percent. That doesn't make the 1,926 city residents who were unemployed last month happy. The Georgia Department of Labor released labor force data today, and other North Fulton cities fared relatively well also. Roswell's 6.4 percent jobless rate was second out of the cities of 25,000 people or more that the department measures. Sandy Springs is just a tick away at 6.5 percent. Johns Creek had the highest rate in North Fulton at 7 percent, a drop of one-tenth, though that was far below East Point's 12.4 percent jobless …
A slight increase in the jobless rate for Roswell saw it slip to second best behind Alpharetta in preliminary July figures.
Roswell's unemployment rate remains relatively low compared to the rest of the state at 7.1 percent, but a slight increase dropped it from being the best in the state. Roswell's rate actually was worse in July than in June, when the North Fulton city had the lowest unemployment rate – 6.9 percent – of the cities surveyed by the Department of Labor. Now Alpharetta has that distinction with its 7.0 percent unemployment rate, which is unchanged from June. Roswell had 139 more people unemployed in July vs. June, but it also had 461 more people in its labor force – and 322 of them had jobs. The city's unemployment rate is still 2.6 percent better than the state's 9.7 percent unemployment, and it's the second lowest rate for any city in the …
