Metro Denver’s unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9 percent in June from 7.5 percent in May, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday.
The report examined 10 counties, from Park in the south to Broomfield in the north, but not Boulder County.
Among the individual counties, Adams had the highest unemployment rate, 9 percent, followed by Denver at 8.5 percent. Gilpin had the lowest rate at 6.6 percent.
Broomfield County had the biggest jump in its unemployment rate between May and June, from 6.9 percent to 7.5 percent. The numbers are not seasonally adjusted.
The metro area has lost 55,200 nonfarm jobs the past year, a 4.2 percent decline that tracks with the 4.3 percent decline measured nationally.
Metro-area job losses were heaviest in mining and construction, with 14,200 jobs lost; and trade, transportation and utilities, also 14,200 jobs.
Education and health services added 4,800 jobs, a 3.6 percent gain that outpaced the U.S. average of 2.2 percent.
Nonfarm payrolls declined 0.3 percent from May to June in the metro area, half the statewide decline of 0.6 percent.
Unemployment rates rose year over year in all 372 metro areas the bureau tracked, while 352 areas saw a decline in nonfarm payroll jobs.
Aldo Svaldi: 303-954-1410 or asvaldi@denverpost.com
