{"id":35598,"date":"2025-07-25T05:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35598\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T05:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:50:08","slug":"southern-utah-continues-economic-momentum-with-strong-job-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35598\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Utah continues economic momentum with strong job growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. GEORGE \u2014 Iron and Washington counties reported strong year-over-year employment growth in June, outpacing the statewide average and signaling continued momentum in southern Utah&#8217;s economy, according to new data released by the Utah Department of Workforce Services.<\/p>\n<p>Iron County&#8217;s employment rose to 26,000 jobs, a 6.3% increase from June 2024. Washington County reached 90,000 jobs, a 4.8% increase from the same time last year. These gains come as Utah&#8217;s statewide nonfarm employment grew by 2.3%, adding 39,700 jobs over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This marks another month of steady gains, underscoring employer confidence and economic resilience,&#8221; said Ben Crabb, chief economist with the Department of Workforce Services, during a recorded report posted online last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Utah remained unchanged at 3.2% in June, below the national average of 4.1%. Iron County&#8217;s unemployment rate was below the state average at 3.1%, while Washington County was slightly above the statewide rate at 3.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of Utah&#8217;s 10 major private sector industries posted year-over-year job gains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stgeorgeutah.com\/news\/southern-utah-continues-economic-momentum-with-strong-job-growth\/article_b5d7d2fa-f633-449a-a37d-a5131d5f1ebd.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story at St. George News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. GEORGE \u2014 Iron and Washington counties reported strong year-over-year employment growth in June, outpacing the statewide average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,1302,3811,101,939,3812,134,3729,3,3813,3814,99,1505,2987,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-35598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}