Genesee County's unemployment rate jumped to 14.4 percent in April, the highest rate since the Great Recession, when 10 percent of county residents were without jobs in January and February of 2010.
The highest unemployment rate for the county since 1990 (the oldest data publicly available) was 10.8 percent in January 1992.
The unemployment rate a year ago for April was 3.7 percent. In March of this year, it was 4.9 percent, as it was in February, and it was 5.1 percent in January.
The unemployment rate in the state is 15 percent.
It's 19.2 percent in the Buffalo area and 14.9 percent in the Rochester area.
There are 4,300 people in Genesee County counted as unemployed and 25,200 county residents with jobs.
