Westport’s unemployment rate in February was 6.5 percent, up from 6.3 percent in January, the Connecticut Department of Labor said today.
It was the highest Westport unemployment rate since January 2010 when it was 6.6 percent.
The sharp jump in February was mirrored as the month before in some other wealthy Fairfield County towns – 7.2 percent in Greenwich, (6.9 percent in January) 6.4 percent in New Canaan (6.2 in January), and 5.9 percent in Weston (5.5 percent in January).
The department said the number of unemployed in February was 821, up from 805 in January. The February labor force in Westport numbered 12,701, down from 12,713 in January with 11,880 employed, down from 11,908 in January, it said.
