Windsor unemployment rate climbs to 10.8% in May
Only Peterborough had a higher jobless rate
Windsor's jobless rate is the second highest in Canada for the second month in a row, according to new data released Friday by Statistic Canada.
The seasonally adjusted three-month moving average rose a tenth of a percentage point to 10.8 per cent in May.
Only Peterborough had a higher unemployment rate at 11.2 per cent.
The Windsor number is more than two percentage points higher than it was in May of 2024, when the unemployment rate in the census metropolitan area sat at 8.5 per cent.
The rate surpassed the 10 per cent mark in April.
Nationwide, the unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage points to seven per cent in May, the highest it's been in nine years outside of the pandemic, according to Stat Can.
There has been virtually no employment growth since January after strong gains in the fall, the agency wrote in its latest labour force survey.
The economy added just 8,800 jobs during the month, showing little change from April.