San Diego County’s unemployment rate increased to 5.2% in July, up from a revised 4.9% in June and above last year’s 4.8%, according to figures released Friday by the state Employment Development Department.<\/p>\n
July’s unadjusted unemployment rate was 6.1% for California and 4.6% for the nation during the same period.<\/p>\n
Between June 2025 and July 2025, total nonfarm employment decreased from 1,573,100 to 1,557,600, a loss of 15,500 jobs. Agricultural employment fell by 100 jobs.<\/p>\n
The largest decline in the month-over-month statistics was in the government industry sector, which saw a decrease of 17,200 jobs. The majority of these losses — more than 83% — were simply due to a summer recess. The state government lost 2,900 jobs, but the federal government remained steady.<\/p>\n
Additionally, professional and business services and construction lost a combined 1,300 jobs.<\/p>\n
A total of seven industries posted gains in the month-over-month figures for a total of 3,000 jobs gained. Private education and health services saw the most, increasing by 1,400, with all gains stemming from health care and social assistance.<\/p>\n
Between July 2024 and July 2025, total nonfarm employment increased by 6,300, while agricultural employment fell by 100 jobs.<\/p>\n
Private education and health services also posted gains here, leading all sectors by adding 14,400 jobs. Health care and social assistance were responsible for 13,300, more than 92% of the growth in this sector.<\/p>\n
The government added 6,500 jobs over the year, leading the other sectors with growth, which included other services and leisure and hospitality.<\/p>\n
However, six industry sectors lost employment over the year for a total of 15,800 fewer jobs. These were led by professional and business services with a decline of 6,800 jobs, while manufacturing lost 3,800. Financial activities, construction, information, trade, transportation, and utilities reported the remainder of the losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego County’s unemployment rate increased to 5.2% in July, up from a revised 4.9% in June and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,181,180,5886],"class_list":{"0":"post-76769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-employment","12":"tag-jobs","13":"tag-san-diego"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}