Although the local unemployment rate went up slightly in April from the month before, it remains well below both the national and Ontario rates.
According to Statistics Canada the unemployment rate in the Belleville-Quinte West Census Metropolitan Area which includes Belleville, Quinte West, Deseronto-Tyendinaga and Stirling-Rawdon, was 4.8% last month.
In March it was 4.4%.
Meanwhile the national rate held steady at 6.1% although 90,000 jobs were added, most of them part-time.
Ontario’s rate was 6.8%, a notch up from 6.7% in March.
