Ida County was significantly better than the state average with the latest unemployment numbers from Iowa Workforce Development.
Iowa’s unemployment was unchanged to end the year at 3.1 percent, a drop of .8 percent from the previous year while the national rate was at 3.9 percent.
Ida County stood at 2.6 percent, .5 percent better than the state.
Sac stood at 2.4 percent, tying Cherokee while Monona was at three percent, Woodbury at 3.2 percent and Crawford County was at 6.1 percent, the highest in the region.
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