Civilian Labor Force and Unemployment:
National, Statewide, Regional, and Counties


There was an unusually sharp monthly decline in unemployment from May to June of this year. The nonadjusted unemployment rate dropped one-half percentage point, and the seasonally adjusted rate dropped as well, confirming that this was atypical.


LABOR FORCE UNEMPLOYED NUMBER UNEMPLOYMENT RATES
REGION-or-County Jun 96 (p) May 96 (r) Jun 95 (b) Jun 96 (p) May 96 (r) Jun 95 (b) Jun 96 (p) May 96 (r) Jun 95 (b)
NORTHWEST 47,573 46,010 46,999 2,070 2,254 2,561 4.4 4.9 5.4
Big Horn 5,291 5,328 5,231 228 244 289 4.3 4.6 5.5
Fremont 17,545 17,776 17,384 1,039 1,154 1,219 5.9 6.5 7.0
Hot Springs 2,319 2,313 2,513 87 73 125 3.8 3.2 5.0
Park 17,340 15,576 16,871 472 521 555 2.7 3.3 3.3
Washakie 5,078 5,017 5,000 244 262 373 4.8 5.2 7.5
NORTHEAST 43,433 42,430 43,373 1,544 1,681 1,845 3.6 4.0 4.3
Campbell 18,287 18,043 18,518 718 743 883 3.9 4.1 4.8
Crook 3,405 3,274 3,288 115 131 123 3.4 4.0 3.7
Johnson 3,847 3,624 3,872 99 113 125 2.6 3.1 3.2
Sheridan 14,446 14,038 14,288 485 551 572 3.4 3.9 4.0
Weston 3,448 3,451 3,407 127 143 142 3.7 4.1 4.2
REGION-or-County Jun 96 (p) May 96 (r) Jun 95 (b) Jun 96 (p) May 96 (r) Jun 95 (b) Jun 96 (p) May 96 (r) Jun 95 (b)
SOUTHWEST 56,169 52,878 55,575 2,463 2,792 2,530 4.4 5.3 4.6
Lincoln 7,027 6,671 6,785 377 381 453 5.4 5.7 6.7
Sublette 3,157 2,939 3,243 78 85 108 2.5 2.9 3.3
Sweetwater 21,549 21,607 22,057 1,169 1,265 1,124 5.4 5.9 5.1
Teton 12,814 10,315 12,247 184 347 129 1.4 3.4 1.1
Uinta 11,622 11,346 11,243 655 714 716 5.6 6.3 6.4
SOUTHEAST 68,159 68,669 67,840 1,756 1,892 2,207 2.7 2.8 3.3
Albany 16,554 17,124 16,229 260 287 358 1.6 1.7 2.2
Goshen 6,304 6,313 6,401 248 287 287 3.9 4.5 4.5
Laramie 39,459 39,542 39,446 1,092 1,179 1,353 2.8 3.0 3.4
Niobrara 1,334 1,357 1,277 23 20 32 1.7 1.5 2.5
Platte 4,508 4,333 4,487 133 119 177 3.0 2.7 3.9
REGION-or-County Jun 96 (p) May 96 (r) Jun 95 (b) Jun 96 (p) May 96 (r) Jun 95 (b) Jun 96 (p) May 96 (r) Jun 95 (b)
CENTRAL 48,141 47,914 48,126 2,212 2,506 2,376 4.6 5.2 4.9
Carbon 8,790 8,444 8,994 340 371 410 3.9 4.4 4.6
Converse 6,398 6,390 6,381 287 268 302 4.5 4.2 4.7
Natrona 32,953 33,080 32,751 1,585 1,867 1,664 4.8 5.6 5.1
STATEWIDE 263,472 257,899 261,918 10,044 11,124 11,522 3.8 4.3 4.4
Statewide Seasonally Adjusted 4.2 4.5 4.8
U.S. 5.5 5.4 5.8
U.S. Seasonally Adjusted 5.3 5.6 5.6


Prepared in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Benchmarked 03/96. Run Date 07/96.


(p) Preliminary.
(r) Revised.
(b) Benchmarked.


NOTE: The 1995 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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