ALBANY – All counties in the Hudson Valley saw declines in their
unemployment rates during the 12-month period ending in July.
Perhaps the most significant is that in Sullivan County where joblessness
dropped 0.9 percent down to 4.2 percent in July, compared to 5.1 percent
one year earlier. During the height of the Great Recession, Sullivan was
facing double-digit unemployment rates.
Greene County tied Sullivan with a drop in unemployment of 0.9 percent,
going from 5.5 percent in July 2015 to 4.6 percent this July.
Unemployment rates dropped by 0.7 percent in Ulster, Orange, and Rockland
counties, while rates fell by 0.6 percent in Dutchess and Putnam counties.
Unemployment fell by 0.5 percent in Columbia County, the county with the
second lowest percentage of joblessness in the state this July. Only Hamilton
County, with 3.0 percent unemployment was lower.
Dutchess, Rockland and Sullivan counties were tied for 12th place in the
July rankings while Westchester was 17, Ulster was 22, and Greene was
30.
The July unemployment rate for the Hudson Valley region was 4.3 percent,
the lowest July since 2007.
