(The Latest Unemployment rate for Imperial County)....The latest report is for September.

The report was released Friday morning by the Labor Market Information Division of the Employment Development Department. According to the report, Unemployment in the Imperial County was at 16.0 % in September. That is down slightly from the revised 16.5% in August and below the year ago estimate of 17.6 %. This compares with an unadjusted unemployment rate of 3.7% for California and 3.3% for the nation during the same period. Imperial County once again has the highest unemployment rate in the state. During September the report indicates there were 11,300 eligible workers unemployed out of a Labor Force of 70,500.