Wyoming County Unemployment Rates
data produced by: David Bullard, Economist
"While Wyoming's unemployment rate (not seasonally adjusted) increased from 4.6 to 5.9 percent, the Southeast Region's rate only increased 0.8 percentage points from 3.3 to 4.1 percent from December 1998 to January 1999."
Labor Force | Employed | Unemployed | Unemployment Rates | |||||||||
REGION-or-County | Jan 99 (p) | Dec 98 (r) | Jan 98 (b) | Jan 99 (p) | Dec 98 (r) | Jan 98 (b) | Jan 99 (p) | Dec 98 (r) | Jan 98 (b) | Jan 99 (p) | Dec 98 (r) | Jan 98 (b) |
NORTHWEST | 44,303 | 44,431 | 43,537 | 41,086 | 41,891 | 40,109 | 3,217 | 2,540 | 3,428 | 7.3 | 5.7 | 7.9 |
Big Horn | 5,889 | 5,758 | 5,629 | 5,474 | 5,417 | 5,247 | 415 | 341 | 382 | 7.0 | 5.9 | 6.8 |
Fremont | 17,253 | 17,406 | 17,031 | 15,702 | 16,173 | 15,260 | 1,551 | 1,233 | 1,771 | 9.0 | 7.1 | 10.4 |
Hot Springs | 2,374 | 2,385 | 2,299 | 2,228 | 2,294 | 2,164 | 146 | 91 | 135 | 6.1 | 3.8 | 5.9 |
Park | 13,760 | 13,839 | 13,733 | 12,946 | 13,208 | 12,835 | 814 | 631 | 898 | 5.9 | 4.6 | 6.5 |
Washakie | 5,027 | 5,043 | 4,845 | 4,736 | 4,799 | 4,603 | 291 | 244 | 242 | 5.8 | 4.8 | 5.0 |
NORTHEAST | 42,754 | 43,039 | 41,297 | 39,957 | 41,078 | 38,580 | 2,797 | 1,961 | 2,717 | 6.5 | 4.6 | 6.6 |
Campbell | 19,495 | 19,326 | 18,706 | 18,193 | 18,513 | 17,649 | 1,302 | 813 | 1,057 | 6.7 | 4.2 | 5.7 |
Crook | 2,849 | 2,971 | 2,716 | 2,622 | 2,822 | 2,498 | 227 | 149 | 218.0 | 8.0 | 5.0 | 8.0 |
Johnson | 3,485 | 3,604 | 3,433 | 3,322 | 3,448 | 3,206 | 163 | 156 | 227 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 6.6 |
Sheridan | 13,508 | 13,692 | 13,240 | 12,639 | 12,979 | 12,245 | 869 | 713 | 995 | 6.4 | 5.2 | 7.5 |
Weston | 3,417 | 3,446 | 3,202 | 3,181 | 3,316 | 2,982 | 236 | 130 | 220 | 6.9 | 3.8 | 6.9 |
SOUTHWEST | 51,372 | 51,948 | 49,976 | 48,295 | 49,455 | 47,097 | 3,077 | 2,493 | 2,879 | 6.0 | 4.8 | 5.8 |
Lincoln | 5,967 | 6,010 | 6,057 | 5,515 | 5,625 | 5,536 | 452 | 385 | 521 | 7.6 | 6.4 | 8.6 |
Sublette | 2,893 | 2,972 | 2,689 | 2,761 | 2,847 | 2,608 | 132 | 125 | 81 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 3.0 |
Sweetwater | 21,554 | 21,951 | 20,811 | 20,091 | 20,751 | 19,483 | 1,463 | 1,200 | 1,328 | 6.8 | 5.5 | 6.4 |
Teton | 9,992 | 10,020 | 9,860 | 9,767 | 9,790 | 9,620 | 225 | 230 | 240 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
Uinta | 10,966 | 10,995 | 10,559 | 10,161 | 10,442 | 9,850 | 805 | 553 | 709 | 7.3 | 5.0 | 6.7 |
SOUTHEAST | 68,443 | 69,359 | 67,072 | 65,613 | 67,100 | 63,840 | 2,830 | 2,259 | 3,232 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 4.8 |
Albany | 17,098 | 17,343 | 16,681 | 16,641 | 17,011 | 16,185 | 457 | 332 | 496 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 3.0 |
Goshen | 6,388 | 6,585 | 6,220 | 6,000 | 6,320 | 5,741 | 388 | 265 | 479 | 6.1 | 4.0 | 7.7 |
Laramie | 39,171 | 39,669 | 38,727 | 37,512 | 38,253 | 36,785 | 1,659 | 1,416 | 1,942 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 5.0 |
Niobrara | 1,290 | 1,320 | 1,126 | 1,233 | 1,283 | 1,087 | 57 | 37 | 39 | 4.4 | 2.8 | 3.5 |
Platte | 4,496 | 4,442 | 4,318 | 4,227 | 4,233 | 4,042 | 269 | 209 | 276 | 6.0 | 4.7 | 6.4 |
CENTRAL | 47,877 | 48,142 | 46,898 | 44,871 | 45,650 | 43,804 | 3,006 | 2,492 | 3,094 | 6.3 | 5.2 | 6.6 |
Carbon | 8,269 | 8,252 | 7,918 | 7,634 | 7,776 | 7,353 | 635 | 476 | 565 | 7.7 | 5.8 | 7.1 |
Converse | 6,390 | 6,458 | 6,241 | 5,993 | 6,128 | 5,867 | 397 | 330 | 374 | 6.2 | 5.1 | 6.0 |
Natrona | 33,218 | 33,432 | 32,739 | 31,244 | 31,746 | 30,584 | 1,974 | 1,686 | 2,155 | 5.9 | 5.0 | 6.6 |
STATEWIDE | 254,749 | 256,919 | 248,778 | 239,821 | 245,176 | 233,429 | 14,928 | 11,743 | 15,349 | 5.9 | 4.6 | 6.2 |
Statewide Seasonally Adjusted | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.9 | |||||||||
U.S. | 4.8 | 4.0 | 5.2 | |||||||||
U.S. Seasonally Adjusted | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.6 |
Prepared in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Benchmarked 02/99. Run Date 02/99.
Data are not seasonally adjusted except where otherwise specified.
(p) Preliminary.
(r) Revised.
(b) Benchmarked.
NOTE: The 1998 annual average unemployment rate for Wyoming was estimated at 4.8 percent. A 90 percent confidence interval around this estimate suggests that in 9 out of 10 cases the actual rate would fall between 4.2 and 5.4 percent.
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