Although Windsor’s unemployment rate fell by almost a full percentage point last month, it’s still Canada’s highest.
The rate for September was 10.4 per cent, down from 11.1 per cent in August.
That number is still 2.3 percentage points higher than September 2024, according to Workforce Windsor-Essex, and the region’s population declined slightly for the third month in a row.
According to Workforce Windsor-Essex, the area added almost 4,000 jobs, and the employment rate increased by about one percentage point to 57 per cent.
Workforce-Windsor-Essex also says there were about 3,500 active job postings for the region, an increase of nine per cent over August.
Brantford, Ont., is now in second place, with an unemployment rate of 9.7 per cent.
Canada’s overall unemployment rate is 7.1 per cent.
The economy added 60,000 jobs in September, with nearly half of those in manufacturing.
It marks the industry’s first increase in employment since January and since the U.S. trade war forced it to contend with job losses.