Compared to this time a year ago, the unemployment rate in Gainesville and the surrounding areas dropped.
In numbers released on Thursday, the Georgia Department of Labor said the unemployment rate for the one-county Gainesville Metropolitan Statistical Area was 3.1% in June, down from the 3.4% in June of 2024. The unemployment rate in the Georgia Mountains region dropped to 3.3% from 3.7% last year while the Northeast Georgia region fell to 3.6% from 3.9% one year ago.
Gainesville finished the month with 105,780 employed residents, which was unchanged from the previous month and rose by 900 from the same time last year. Gainesville ended June with 108,800 available jobs.
However, statewide, the Department of Labor also announced that unemployment increased slightly in all 12 of Georgia’s regional commissions in June from May.
Georgia Labor Commissioner Bárbara Rivera Holmes said that is expected this time of year.
“June's unemployment trends tell a familiar story — Georgia's students are stepping into our workforce as schools let out for summer, creating the temporary unemployment and hiring fluctuations typical for this time of year,” Holmes said. “With Georgia's recent historic announcement of 5 million jobs, these students are stepping into a local workforce that belongs to them, in a state that's proven over and over that when Georgians show up, opportunity follows.”
But also statewide, the unemployment rate dropped in 11 of the 12 regional commissions compared to this same time a year ago.
