Norton's Unemployment Rate Up in June

Norton, like the Massachusetts average, saw an across the board small increase in unemployment in June according to the Massachusetts Department of Labor.

Norton, with a registered labor force of 10,428 in June, saw an increase in unemployment rates from 7.1 percent to 8.3 percent in June as apposed to May. In June 2012, the unemployment rate was 7.7 percent. Norton has a total of 870 persons currently unemployed out of its registered workforce.

Statewide, the June seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate was 7.4 percent, up 0.7 of a percentage point over the month. Over the year, the statewide unadjusted rate was up 0.5 of a percentage point from the June 2012 rate of 6.9 percent.

In June, over the month job gains occurred in eight of the twelve areas for which estimates are published.  The largest job gains were in the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Barnstable, Framingham, and Worcester areas.

Over the year, eight of the twelve areas added jobs with the largest percentage gains in the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Barnstable, and Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury areas.

The seasonally adjusted statewide June unemployment rate, released on July 18th, was 7.0 percent, up 0.4 of a percentage point from the 6.6 recorded for May and up 0.3 of a percentage point from the 6.7 percent rate posted for June 2012. The statewide seasonally adjusted jobs estimate showed a 2,800 job gain in June following a revised gain of 6,700 jobs in May.

The labor force, unemployment rates and jobs estimates for Massachusetts, and for every other state, are based on several different statistical methodologies specified by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.