Windsor’s Unemployment Rate: 9.5%

Remains highest in Canada 

Provinicial Look

Following gains in June, employment in Ontario was little changed in July. The unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points to 7.9%, as more people searched for work. Year-over-year employment gains totalled 47,000 (+0.7%). 

National Look

Following two months of little change, employment in July declined by 30,000, the result of losses in part-time work. The unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage points to 7.3%.

Compared with 12 months earlier, employment increased 0.8% or 139,000, with full-time employment up 1.4% while part-time employment declined 1.8%. Total number of hours worked increased 1.2% over the same period.

Student summer employment

The rate of employment among students aged 20 to 24, that is, the number of employed as a percentage of their population, was 63.2% in June 2012, down from 67.4% in June 2011. The June 2012 rate matches the rate observed in June 2009, when student employment was hard hit by the labour market downturn, and is also the lowest June employment rate since comparable data became available in 1977.

The unemployment rate for these students was 13.0% in June, up from 11.0% a year earlier, but lower than the 14.0% observed in June 2009.

The employment rate for 17- to 19-year-old students was 51.4% in June, below the rate observed in both June 2011 and June 2009. Compared with June 2011, the unemployment rate for these students increased 3.5 percentage points to 17.3%.

Top 5 Regions in Canada with the Highest Unemployment Rate

• Windsor’s Unemployment Rate: 9.2%
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• Windsor’s Unemployment Rate: 9.2%
• Windsor’s Unemployment Rate: 9.7%
• Windsor’s Unemployment Rate: 10.4%