Unemployment continues to fall in Indiana, as well as Fulton and surrounding counties.

Fulton County’s unemployment rate for the month of August is 5.7%.  That’s down 1.4% from July’s 7.1%.

Cass County was down 1.7% to 5.4% in August.  Kosciusko dropped 1.3 to 5.4%.  Marshall County unemployment was down 1.6 to 5.3% in August.

Miami dropped just over a point to 6.8%.  Pulaski unemployment fell 1.2% to 5.4.  Wabash was down a full point to 5.3%.

At 6.7%, Starke County had the area’s highest unemployment rate in August.  However, Starke also experienced the largest decrease, down 2.3% from July’s nine percent unemployment rate.

Indiana’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.4% in August, down from the July reading of 7.8%, as the state continues to recover from COVID-19-related layoffs.

The state's unemployment is lower than the national rate which sits at 8.4%.