(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Yuba-Sutter’s unemployment rate is up rather significantly to begin 2024. The State Employment Development Department has just released the January numbers, reporting it at 9.2%. That’s up over a full percentage point from December’s 8% Yuba-Sutter unemployment rate.

Year-over-year is also up – almost a full percentage point- from January 2023’s rate of 8.4%. The state unemployment rate for January was 5.7% while the national rate was 4.1%.

Individually, Sutter County’s January unemployment rate to begin the new year was just shy of double-digits at 9.8%, while Yuba County was at 8.3%.