Unemployment in Humboldt County sees increase over holiday season

HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CA. – The unemployment rate in Humboldt County went up during the holiday season, but is lower than recent years.

Data collected for December shows unemployment at 3.6% – up .3% since November, which translates to the loss of about 400 jobs.

However, since December 2015, unemployment is down by nearly a whole percentage point.

Over the past year, industries with the most job growth in the county have been in leisure, hospitality, mining and logging.

Humboldt is ranked 13^th in lowest unemployment out of 58 counties statewide.

As for the job with the most ads in the county – that goes for registered nurses.

Del Norte currently sees higher unemployment, at about 6%, putting them at 38^th out of 58 counties.