The Missouri Division of Employment Security has released its latest unemployment statistics, showing an increase in unemployment rates across the state for July. The overall unemployment rate for Missouri rose to 4.6% in July, up from 4.2% in June, marking an increase from the 3.3% rate recorded in July 2023.
Below is a breakdown of the July unemployment rates by county, along with the change from the previous month:
- Grundy County: 5.6% (an increase of 1.0 percentage points from 4.6% in June)
- Adair County: 6.8% (an increase of 0.3 percentage points from 6.5% in June)
- Linn County: 6.0% (an increase of 0.5 percentage points from 5.5% in June)
- Sullivan County: 5.1% (an increase of 0.2 percentage points from 4.9% in June)
- Macon County: 5.1% (an increase of 0.3 percentage points from 4.8% in June)
- Caldwell County: 5.0% (an increase of 0.1 percentage points from 4.9% in June)
- Putnam County: 4.9% (an increase of 0.2 percentage points from 4.7% in June)
- Harrison County: 4.8% (an increase of 0.3 percentage points from 4.5% in June)
- DeKalb County: 4.6% (no change from June)
- Clinton County: 4.6% (no change from June)
- Chariton County: 4.6% (no change from June)
- Worth County: 4.5% (an increase of 0.1 percentage points from 4.4% in June)
- Daviess County: 4.4% (an increase of 0.1 percentage points from 4.3% in June)
- Carroll County: 4.3% (an increase of 0.2 percentage points from 4.1% in June)
- Gentry County: 4.2% (an increase of 0.1 percentage points from 4.1% in June)
- Mercer County: 4.1% (an increase of 0.1 percentage points from 4.0% in June)
- Livingston County: 3.6% (no change from June)
Adair and Linn counties reported the highest unemployment rates in the region for July, with Adair at 6.8% and Linn at 6.0%. Livingston County continued to have the lowest unemployment rate in the area, maintaining a steady 3.6%.
