FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Unemployment rates rose in all 120 Kentucky counties between October 2008 and October 2009, according to a new report issued by the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training.
In Northern Kentucky, Gallatin County had the highest rate of unemployment in October at 12.8 percent. Boone County's unemployment rate was the best in the region at 9.5 percent, followed by Kenton County at 10.2 percent and Owen County at 10.4 percent.
Magoffin County recorded the state’s highest unemployment rate at 21.7 percent for the month of October, according to the office, an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. Six other counties recorded unemployment rates exceeding 15 percent.
Fayette County had a lowest jobless rate in the commonwealth at 7.8 percent.
Kentucky’s overall unemployment rate for October stood at 10.7 percent – 1.2 percentage points higher than the 9.5 percent jobless rate nationally and 4.4 percentage points higher than the 6.3 percent rate recorded in October 2008.
