Jobless Rate Down For South Bay, California EDD Reports

SAN JOSE, CA — Over nearly the last two years, unemployment has fallen in the seven urban regions of the San Francisco Bay Area, according to the latest data released Friday by the California Employment Development Department.

The jobless rate in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara region, consisting of Santa Clara and San Benito counties, was 2.4 percent, down from 3.1 percent in May 2017.

Unemployment was the lowest in the San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco area, which consists of San Francisco and San Mateo counties, at 2 percent in April. That's down from 2.7 percent in May 2017. In San Mateo County alone, unemployment was 1.9 percent last month, the lowest of any Bay Area county, according to state employment officials.

In the Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley area, which consists of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, the jobless rate last month was 2.7 percent, down from 3.5 percent nearly two years ago.

In the Santa Rosa area, unemployment dropped to 2.6 percent from 3 percent. In the Napa area, the jobless rate fell to 2.7 percent from 3.2 percent and in the Vallejo-Fairfield area the jobless rate was 3.7 percent, down from 4.4 percent.

Unemployment in the area around San Rafael was 2.1 percent in April, down from 2.7 percent about two years ago.

—Bay City News