Morris County Unemployment Data as of April 2024
County-level unemployment data for April 2024 has been posted to the NJLWD website. The following is a summary of this information:
- Morris County’s unemployment rate for April 2024 was 3.4%, down from 4.0% in March 2024 and up from 3.0% in April 2023.
- In April 2024, Morris County had the second lowest unemployment rate in New Jersey at 3.4%, behind only Hunterdon County at 3.2%. Cape May County had the highest unemployment rate at 7.7%.
- New Jersey’s unemployment rate for April 2024 was 4.1%, down from 4.8% in March 2024 and up from 3.7% in April 2023.
- Morris County’s total labor force was 273,500 in April 2024, down from 275,200 in March 2024 and up from 273,000 in April 2023.
Data is not seasonally adjusted.
Morris county consistently trends lower for unemployment rate than the state of New Jersey itself. The sheer volume of the workforce in Morris County makes a 3.4% unemployment rate impressive, as Hunterdon County has about a third of Morris County’s workforce numbers. The workforce in Morris County makes up about 6% of the total New Jersey labor force, while the unemployment numbers only make up about 4.5% of New Jersey’s total. Compared to Hunterdon County (about 1.5% of total labor force, 1% of state unemployment), Morris County’s ratio per-capita is incredibly good for the second lowest unemployment rate in the state of New Jersey.
Article courtesy of the County of Morris.