Newly-released city and county jobless rates show the number of those employed in the oil and gas industry dropped in Oklahoma City and held steady in Tulsa.
The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission reported overall unemployment rates for April were lower in 75 of Oklahoma’s 77 counties. The rates were up in the remaining two counties.
The Commission reported that employment in the oil and gas sector in Oklahoma City fell from 22,000 in March of 2019 to 21,700. That’s a drop of 1.4 percent.
Oklahoma City’s employment from April 2018 to April 2019 was up 300.
Oil and gas employment in Tulsa totaled 7,200 in April 2019, same as in March. And it increased 600 or 9.1 percent from the 6,600 employed in April of 2018.
Of the overall unemployment in the state, Cimarron County in the Panhandle was lowest at 1.4 percent. Latimer and McIntosh counties were highest at 4.6 percent.
