In keeping with the tradition of releasing bad news on a Friday, state officials put out the monthly jobs report today. The headline is that California's unemployment rate ticked up to 12.5%.
But the state also put out a bunch of data for local cities. Here, then, are the unemployment rates for the cities of the South Bay. As with many things, it gets worse the farther you get from the ocean.
- Carson: 12.7%
- El Segundo: 5.9%
- Gardena: 11.8%
- Hawthorne: 16.3%
- Hermosa Beach: 5.3%
- Inglewood: 15.7%
- Lawndale: 12.5%
- Lomita: 8.7%
- Los Angeles: 13.9%
- Manhattan Beach: 4.5%
- Palos Verdes Estates: 2.6%
- Rancho Palos Verdes: 4.4%
- Redondo Beach: 6.8%
- Rolling Hills: 1.2%
- Rolling Hills Estates: 3.4%
- Torrance: 6.4%
These numbers are based on a monthly federal survey of 5,500 Californians, so there's probably a pretty high margin of error when you get down to the city-by-city data. There's also some odd quirks in there, such as the purported fact that Rolling Hills has zero unemployed people, but an unemployment rate of 1.2%. Huh?
But the state also put out a bunch of data for local cities. Here, then, are the unemployment rates for the cities of the South Bay. As with many things, it gets worse the farther you get from the ocean.
- Carson: 12.7%
- El Segundo: 5.9%
- Gardena: 11.8%
- Hawthorne: 16.3%
- Hermosa Beach: 5.3%
- Inglewood: 15.7%
- Lawndale: 12.5%
- Lomita: 8.7%
- Los Angeles: 13.9%
- Manhattan Beach: 4.5%
- Palos Verdes Estates: 2.6%
- Rancho Palos Verdes: 4.4%
- Redondo Beach: 6.8%
- Rolling Hills: 1.2%
- Rolling Hills Estates: 3.4%
- Torrance: 6.4%
These numbers are based on a monthly federal survey of 5,500 Californians, so there's probably a pretty high margin of error when you get down to the city-by-city data. There's also some odd quirks in there, such as the purported fact that Rolling Hills has zero unemployed people, but an unemployment rate of 1.2%. Huh?
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