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February 2010 Washington Unemployment Analysis

Localetrends monthly report on the state of unemployment in Washington Cities and Counties. Overall, Washington unemployment levels increased to 10.20% from 9.40% in the period from January to February 2010.
Over the six month period from October to February 2010, Washington unemployment levels increased from 8.80% to 10.20%.
At the county level, Ferry County had the highest level of unemployment in Washington at 16.10%, while Whitman County had the lowest level of unemployment among Washington counties at 6.20%.
Over the last month Ferry County experienced the largest increase in unemployment levels in the state of Washington with an increase from 14.20% to 16.10%, while
Wahkiakum County experienced the largest decrease in unemployment levels with a change from 14.20% to 13.90%.
Over the previous six month period from October to February, Okanogan County experienced the largest increase in unemployment levels in Washington with an increase from 6.50% to 13.20%.
Over the previous six month period from October to February, Asotin County experienced the largest decline in unemployment levels in Washington with an decrease from 8.20% to 7.30%.
Over the previous one year period from February to February, Ferry County experienced the largest increase in unemployment levels in Washington with an increase from 13.60% to 16.10%.
Over the previous one month period from February to February, Asotin County experienced the largest decline in unemployment levels in Washington with an decrease from 10.60% to 7.30%.

At the Washington city level, Longview had the highest level of unemployment at 11.50%,
while Pullman had the lowest level of unemployment at 5.40%.
Over the last month, Pullman experienced the largest increase in unemployment levels with an increase from 3.80% to 5.40%.
Sammamish experienced the largest decrease in unemployment levels with a drop from 6.40 to 6.20%.
Over the previous six month period from October to February, the city of Wenatchee had the biggest increase in unemployment levels with an increase from 6.00% to 9.80%,
while the city of Sammamish had the biggest decrease in unemployment levels with a drop from 7.00% to %.
The city of Des Moines had the biggest increase in unemployment levels in Washington year over year, moving up from 7.60% to 10.40%,
with Pasco seeing the largest decrease in unemployment levels year over year dropping down from 10.30% to 9.70%.

Data for all Counties and Cities is listed below. Locations that had a month over month increase in unemployment are highlighted in red, locations that saw a decrease in unemployment are highlighted in green.