Table Data - Unemployed Persons in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA (MSA)

Title Unemployed Persons in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA (MSA)
Series ID LAUMT064210000000004A
Source U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Release Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Persons
Date Range 1990-01-01 to 2025-01-01
Last Updated 2026-05-19 2:54 PM CDT
Notes These data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), also known as the household survey.

Unemployed persons are all persons who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment some time during the 4 week-period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed.

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DATE VALUE
1990-01-01 9776
1991-01-01 12319
1992-01-01 13568
1993-01-01 14681
1994-01-01 13844
1995-01-01 12903
1996-01-01 11853
1997-01-01 11121
1998-01-01 10311
1999-01-01 8879
2000-01-01 7523
2001-01-01 8645
2002-01-01 10996
2003-01-01 11309
2004-01-01 10093
2005-01-01 9000
2006-01-01 8112
2007-01-01 8573
2008-01-01 10866
2009-01-01 17159
2010-01-01 19040
2011-01-01 18412
2012-01-01 16822
2013-01-01 14697
2014-01-01 12602
2015-01-01 10764
2016-01-01 10047
2017-01-01 8171
2018-01-01 7046
2019-01-01 6955
2020-01-01 13036
2021-01-01 8988
2022-01-01 6431
2023-01-01 7530
2024-01-01 8114
2025-01-01 8790

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