Michigan Regional Jobless Rates Rise In January
LANSING (AP) - Michigan officials say that seasonally unadjusted unemployment rates have increased in all 17 major labor markets, though manufacturing layoffs were less evident as rebounding car companies maintained production.
The January figures were released Thursday. They show rates rose everywhere, with the Detroit region and the northeastern Lower Peninsula showing the highest jumps from December to January.
Officials say the increases are typical, with seasonal job cuts in most industries.
Statewide, the unadjusted jobless rate was 9.7 percent, up from 9 percent in December but down from 11.6 in January 2011.
The figures show unemployment rates fell in all labor markets from January 2011 to January of this year. Over-the-year job gains were highest in construction, while government d jobs shrank.
Seasonally adjusted joblessness has been falling for months in Michigan.
Michigan's January unemployment rates by region:
- Ann Arbor, 5.6 percent, compared with 5.4 percent.
- Battle Creek, 7.9 percent, compared with 7.6 percent.
- Bay City, 9.3 percent, compared with 8.5 percent.
- Detroit-Warren-Livonia, 10.8 percent, compared with 9.7 percent.
- Flint, 10 percent, compared with 9.5 percent.
- Grand Rapids-Wyoming, 7.4 percent, compared with 7.2 percent.
- Holland-Grand Haven, 7.4 percent, compared with 7 percent.
- Jackson, 9 percent, compared with 8.6 percent.
- Kalamazoo-Portage, 8.2 percent, compared with 8 percent.
- Lansing-East Lansing, 7.4 percent, compared with 7 percent.
- Monroe, 9 percent, compared with 8.4 percent.
- Muskegon-Norton Shores, 9.5 percent, compared with 8.8 percent.
- Niles-Benton Harbor, 10 percent, compared with 9.3 percent.
- Saginaw-Saginaw Township North, 9.3 percent, compared with 8.6 percent.
- Upper Peninsula, 10.5 percent, compared with 9.7 percent.
- Northeast Lower Michigan, 13.8 percent, compared with 12.5 percent.
- Northwest Lower Michigan, 11.8 percent, compared with 10.9 percent.
- Michigan, 9.7 percent, compared with 9 percent.
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