Tag: Eastern Idaho
Region
Labor force estimates for August 2024 from the Idaho Department of Labor’s Local Area Unemployment Statistics have total employment and unemployment increasing in the nine-county eastern region. Seasonally adjusted, August’s preliminary estimates have labor force participants increasing by 352 people, with 333 more employed people and 19 more unemployed people. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the region remained at 3.1%, the same as June 2024, and 0.4 percentage points higher than July 2023.
Figure 1.
Eastern Idaho, seasonally adjusted data Aug-24 (P) Jul-24 (P) Aug-23 (B)
Civilian labor force 132,539 132,187 128,928
Total employment 128,375 128,042 125,499
Unemployment 4,164 4,145 3,429
% of labor force unemployed 3.1 3.1 2.7
P – Preliminary, R – Revised, B – Benchmarked
Source: Idaho Department of Labor
Bonneville, Butte, Clark, Custer, Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi, Madison and Teton counties
Region
Labor force estimates for July 2024 from the Idaho Department of Labor’s Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) have both total employment increasing and unemployment increasing in the nine-county eastern region. Seasonally adjusted, July’s preliminary estimates have labor force participants increasing by 1,754 people, with 1,578 more employed people and 176 more unemployed people. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is 3.1%, 0.1 percentage points higher than June 2024 and a half a percent higher than July 2023.