Red Deer unemployment rate up to 7.4 per cent in June<\/p>\n
Published 1:00 pm Saturday, July 11, 2026<\/p>\n
The Red Deer region\u2019s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate rose to 7.4 per cent in June, according to data released by Statistics Canada on Friday, July 10.<\/p>\n
This increase marked a 0.8 percentage-point increase from the month prior, based on the three-month moving average. Red Deer\u2019s unemployment dropped by about 100 jobs from May to June, while the labour force grew by 400, resulting in the unemployment rate rising.<\/p>\n
Statistics Canada provides seasonally-adjusted unemployment rates for four Alberta regions: Red Deer, Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge. Of these regions, Red Deer had the highest unemployment rate. Lethbridge\u2019s was a lowest at 5.5 per cent, while Calgary\u2019s was 7.1 per cent and Edmonton\u2019s was 7.2 per cent.<\/p>\n
Alberta\u2019s unemployment rate was tied for the fourth-highest in Canada with Ontario. The national unemployment rate at 6.5 per cent was 0.1 percentage points lower than the previous month.<\/p>\n
In June 2026, the labour force increased by 20,200 to 2,878,500. The number of labour force participants increased among 15- to 24-year-olds (up 11,700) and 25- to 54-year-olds (up 18,000) and decreased for people aged 55 years and over (down 9,500).<\/p>\n
Month-over-month, employment increased by 6,800. Employment grew for 15- to 24-year-olds and 25- to 54-year-olds and fell among people aged 55 years and over.<\/p>\n
Month-over-month, employment increased in the private sector (up 12,200) and decreased in the public sector (down 4,100) and among the self-employed (down 1,500). On a year-over-year basis, private sector employment grew by 55,900 and public sector employment increased by 19,500.<\/p>\n
In June, employment rose in nine out of 16 industries compared to the previous month. The industries with the most employment gains were: wholesale and retail trade; construction; and other services (except public administration).<\/p>\n
On a year-over-year basis, employment increased the most in: health occupations; trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations; and sales and service occupations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Deer unemployment rate up to 7.4 per cent in June Published 1:00 pm Saturday, July 11, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-795651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795651","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=795651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}