{"id":9491,"date":"2021-10-20T15:40:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2021-10-20T16:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T21:47:33","slug":"ellis-county-unemployment-rate-drops-to-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/2021\/10\/20\/ellis-county-unemployment-rate-drops-to-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellis County Unemployment rate drops to 4.2%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">A year and half after the unemployment rate in Ellis County reached a 30-year high, a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis shows Ellis County&#8217;s job numbers are on the mend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of September 29, 2021, the Federal Reserve reports the Ellis County unemployment rate to be 4.2%, down more than six percentage points from the 30-year high of 10.5% in April 2020 when one in every ten county residents eligible to work was out of a job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the financial crisis of 2008, the number of unemployed county residents had been declining steadily since June of 2011 until it eventually bottomed out at 2.7% in December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early in 2020, the rate began to climb again and spiked at the 30-year high in April. The rate fell back to around 5% to 6% by the end of summer and hovered there for several months. Then in February 2021, the rate once again began a downward trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For comparison, the unemployment rate for neighboring counties during the same reporting cycle is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dallas County: 5.2%<\/li><li>Johnson County: 4.5%<\/li><li>Tarrant County: 4.9%<\/li><li>Navarro County: 4.9%<\/li><li>Johnson County: 4.5%<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ellis County has a total population of around 173,772 people, of which approximately 93,238 are employed at least part-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"803\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/waxmed-1024x803.jpg\" alt=\"Waxahachie courthouse\" class=\"wp-image-5993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/waxmed-1024x803.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/waxmed-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/waxmed-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/waxmed-1536x1205.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/waxmed-2048x1606.jpg 2048w\" \/><figcaption>Ellis County job numbers are showing improvement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year and half after the unemployment rate in Ellis County reached a 30-year high, a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis shows Ellis County&#8217;s job numbers are on the mend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"Ellis County job numbers are on the mend","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"More county residents find work, unemployment down after 30-year high.","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"Ellis County job numbers are on the mend","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"More county residents find work, unemployment down after 30-year high.","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jobs","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}