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Jobless Rate Falls in Johns Creek
The city's preliminary rate for December 2014 clocked in at 5.4 percent.
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Preliminary figures show unemployment rate for the city of Johns Creek decreased last month.
That’s according to numbers released by the Georgia Department of Labor. Johns Creek’s rate dropped from 5.6 in November to 5.4 percent in December. Fortunately, last month’s rate is also slightly lower than 5.5 percent, the city’s rate in December 2013.
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Rates for surrounding cities include: Alpharetta at 4.8 percent; Atlanta at 8.6 percent; Duluth at 5.6 percent; Dunwoody at 4.8 percent; Kennesaw at 7.4 percent; Lawrenceville at 7.6 percent; Marietta at 6.5 percent; Milton at 5.1 percent; Roswell at 4.9 percent; Sandy Springs at 5.1 percent; and Woodstock at 6.2 percent.
At the regional level, the unemployment rate in metro Atlanta remained unchanged in December, but the number of jobs grew slightly, the state labor department said Thursday.
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The Georgia Department of Labor said in a press release that the metro’s jobless rate was 6.4 percent in December, the same rate as November.
However, jobs grew by 5,500 (0.2 percent), ending a three-year streak that saw the metro lose an average of 900 jobs from November to December.
The jobless rate for metro Atlanta was 6.8 percent in December 2013. The labor department said most of the new December jobs in metro Atlanta came from industries associated with holiday hiring.
Metro Athens had the lowest area jobless rate in the state at 4.9 percent, while the Heart of Georgia-Altamaha region had the highest at 8.8 percent.
Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for December was 6.9 percent, down from 7.2 percent in November. Georgia labor market data is available at www.gdol.ga.gov.
Patch Editor Scott Bernarde contributed to this article
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