Starke County continues to enjoy historically low unemployment. The May jobless rate of 3.2 percent is tied with the Indiana average and is down slightly from April. It’s also the lowest Starke County has seen since May of 1998. The local unemployment rate back then was 3.5 percent, which was up half a percentage point from the month before.
Pulaski County’s May 2017 unemployment rate is 2.7 percent. Marshall is the lowest in the surrounding area at 2.3 percent, while LaPorte County is the highest at 3.5 percent. That’s still well below the national May unemployment average of 4.3 percent.
