{"id":718295,"date":"2026-06-06T04:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/718295\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:45:10","slug":"nanaimos-jobless-rate-remains-one-of-highest-in-canada-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/718295\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanaimo\u2019s jobless rate remains one of highest in Canada | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a49b241a-95aa-403c-8c3c-b9c4e7d7bb92-1.png\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Slightly reduced in May, Nanaimo&#8217;s unemployment rate still remains high at 8.5 per cent. (Image Credit: File photo\/NanaimoNewsNOW)<\/p>\n<p>By Ian Holmes<\/p>\n<p>languishing economoy <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 5, 2026 | 4:38 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NANAIMO \u2014 While the Nanaimo area\u2019s unemployment rate ticked slightly downward, new Statistics Canada data showed the Harbour City has one of the highest jobless rates in the country among larger urban centres. <\/p>\n<p>The Nanaimo area (Cedar to Lantzville, excluding Gabriola Island) had an 8.5 per cent jobless rate in May, a slight improvement over 8.7 per cent in April.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Nanaimo\u2019s jobless rate was tied for the fifth highest among the 41 monitored urban centres in the country, and the second highest in the province, behind only Kelowna (9 per cent)<\/p>\n<p>May\u2019s downward nudge in unemployment represented the first time since November (6.5 per cent) Nanaimo\u2019s jobless rate did not rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slightly reduced in May, Nanaimo&#8217;s unemployment rate still remains high at 8.5 per cent. (Image Credit: File photo\/NanaimoNewsNOW)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[879,45,49,48,2467,46,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-718295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-economy","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}