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Thursday, September 19, 2002   VOLUME 1 ISSUE 5  
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Central Florida Unemployment Rate 4.9%
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Central Florida Unemployment Rate 4.9%
August 2002 July 2002 August 2001
Lake County 4.8% 5.1% 4.2%
Orange County 5.0% 5.2% 4.2%
Osceola County 5.0% 5.1% 4.8%
Seminole County 4.6% 4.9% 3.8%
Sumter County 4.2% 4.3% 4.2%
ORLANDO MSA 4.9% 5.1% 4.1%
Florida 5.4% 5.5% 5.0%
United States 5.7% 6.0% 4.9%

Central Florida unemployment rates continue their downward trend to 4.9% for the Orlando MSA in August 2002.  For the Orlando MSA, this means that there were 887,776 employed residents and 45,713 unemployed last month.  Orlando rates continue their trend of being less than that of both the Florida rate (5.4%) and the national rate (5.7%).


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