According to a jobs analysis from the Daily Yonder, almost every county in Kentucky is dealing with job loss that is higher than the national average for that type of county.
The analysis divided counties into two types: urban and rural. It then charted whether that county’s job loss was worse than the overall average for the nation, or better than the national average.
Nationally, urban counties lost on average 10.1% of their jobs from July 2019 to July 2020. Rural counties lost 6.4% of their jobs in that time period.
Map: Change in Jobs, July 2019 to July 2020
The map shows the percentage change in jobs for each county (rural and urban) compared to the national change in jobs, which was a drop of 8.5% for the period. Here is the key to the map:
And here is Kentucky’s part of that map:
Here’s a quick summary of what the map shows. Out of 120 Kentucky counties:
- 6 urban counties lost less jobs than the national average for urban counties
- 29 urban counties lost more jobs than the national average for urban counties
- 11 rural counties lost less jobs than the national average for rural counties
- 75 rural counties lost more jobs than the national average for rural counties
In total, 17 out of 120 counties lost less jobs than the national average. All the rest (103) did worse than the national average.
You can read the complete story, and view the full-page interactive map of the entire country, on the Daily Yonder site.
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Written by Bill Bishop. Cross-posted from The Daily Yonder.