Windsor unemployment rate climbs to 10.8% in May

Windsor's jobless rate is the second highest in Canada for the second month in a row, according to new data released Friday by Statistic Canada.

The seasonally adjusted three-month moving average rose a tenth of a percentage point to 10.8 per cent in May.

Only Peterborough had a higher unemployment rate at 11.2 per cent.

The Windsor number is more than two percentage points higher than it was in May of 2024, when the unemployment rate in the census metropolitan area sat at 8.5 per cent.

The rate surpassed the 10 per cent mark in April.

Canada's unemployment rate ticks up to 7% in May, highest in 9 years outside of pandemic

Nationwide, the unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage points to seven per cent in May, the highest it's been in nine years outside of the pandemic, according to St