The June 2022 Douglas County Economic Indicators are out now and also available at this qualityinfo.org link. Douglas County employment has increased by 100 jobs over the year from May 2021. The county has regained 71% of the jobs lost in early 2020, and unemployment edged down to 4.5% in May which is extraordinarily low for the area. One interesting point of growth in the last year is the leisure and hospitality industry. Summer is upon us and the demand for travel and leisu

Here are the economic indicators for the month of June. Henry L. Fields Workforce Analyst/Economist Serving Lane and Douglas counties Oregon Employment Department (541) 359-9178 | henry.l.fields@employ.oregon.gov

The May 2022 Douglas County Economic Indicators are out now and also available at this qualityinfo.org link. Douglas County employment has increased by 60 jobs (+0.2%) over the year from April 2021. The county has regained 76% of the jobs lost in early 2020 and continues to march towards pre-recession employment levels. In the last year job growth has been led by leisure and hospitality, wholesale, manufacturing and financial activities. Unemployment was 4.7% on a seasonally