SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The state says the unemployment rate in the Peoria area is going down, as is most other metro areas in Illinois.
The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the city’s unemployment figure in June was a not-seasonally-adjusted 4.8% — down 1.7 percentage points from the year before.
IDES says 49-hundred non-farm payroll jobs were added year over year in June — also not seasonally adjusted.
Illinois Deputy Governor Andy Manar says the state is “encouraged by the ongoing pandemic-related economic recovery in every corner in the state.”
Outside of Chicago, the Rockford area saw the largest unemployment drop in the state — 2.6 percentage points — to 6.6%.
June, 2022 metro area unemployment rates (Not Seasonally Adjusted, compared to June, 2021):
Bloomington: 3.9% (-1.4)
Carbondale-Marion: 4.5% (-1.8)
Champaign-Urbana: 4.2% (-1.5)
Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights: 4.9% (-3.2)
Danville: 5.5% (-1.7)
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL: 3.7% (-2.2)
Decatur: 6.5% (-1.7)
Elgin: 4.5% (-1.6)
Kankakee: 5.3% (-1.6)
Lake-Kenosha, IL-WI: 3.9% (-1.5)
Peoria: 4.8% (-1.6)
Rockford: 6.6% (-2.6)
Springfield: 4.2% (-1.5)
St. Louis (IL section): 4.2% (-1.5)
Illinois Statewide: 4.7% (-2.5)
(Source: Illinois Department of Employment Security/Bureau of Labor Statistics)
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