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- Employment in Ontario grew by 22,400 (+0.3%) in July, with gains exclusively in full-time employment (+1.1%; +69,900), and sizable losses in part-time employment (-3.2%; -47,500). The unemployment rate decreased to 6.7% in July, 0.3 percentage points lower than the previous month.
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Get a snapshot of key facts about the state of Ontario's labour market in the past month. Employment in Ontario grew by 22,400 (+0.3%) in July, with gains exclusively in full-time employment (+1.1%; +69,900), and sizable losses in part-time employment (-3.2%; -47,500).
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- Employment Increased in July
- Mployment Rate Decreased to 8.0%
- Employment and Unemployment in Urban Centres
In July 2021: 1. There were 12.3 million people in Ontario aged 15 years or older 1.1. 8.0 million (65.0%) were in the labour force, including those who had worked, were unemployed and looking for work or did not work at their job, which includes people on temporary layoff because of ongoing COVID‑19-related business closures. The labour force incr...
Employment in Ontario increased by 72,400 (1.0%) in July, following an increase of 116,900 (1.6%) in June. In July, employment in Ontario was 7,373,100 and 118,000 (-1.6%) below its pre-COVID-19 February 2020 level. Chart 1 shows employment in Ontario from January 2005 to July 2021.
Chart 3 shows unemployment rates, Ontario and Canada, January 2005 to July 2021. Ontario’s unemployment rate in July was 8.0%, down from 8.4% in June. The unemployment rate in February 2020 was 5.5%. Canada’s unemployment rate fell to 7.5% in July from 7.8% in June. Canada’s unemployment rate in February 2020 was 5.7%.
Employment change in urban centres
Chart 5 shows employment change for Ontario Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) from June 2021 to July 2021. Toronto (44,400 or 1.4%), Barrie (4,600 or 4.1%) and Ottawa-Gatineau (3,300 or 0.5%) led employment gains among the sixteen Ontario Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) between June and July. Employment level fell in Hamilton (-2,500 or -0.6%) In July, employment in 11 of the 16 Ontario urban centres remained below pre-COVID February 2020 levels, led by Toronto (-123,700 or -3.6%), Kitchener-...
Lowest and highest unemployment rates in urban centres
Chart 6 shows Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) with highest and lowest unemployment rates in Canada, July 2021. Windsor recorded the highest unemployment rate in Canada in July (11.1%), followed by St. Catharines-Niagara (10.6%). Brantford recorded the lowest unemployment rate in Ontario in July (6.1%), while Québec City recorded with the lowest unemployment rate in Canada (4.0%).
Employment increased in July. Employment increased by 150,700 (2.2%) in July, the second consecutive monthly increase since the COVID-19 economic downturn began. In June, Ontario gained 377,900 jobs. Over the February-May period, Ontario employment declined by almost 1.2 million, the largest three-month employment decline on record.
Year-over-year, Ontario’s employment increased by 5.9% (+414,900) in the third quarter of 2021, while Canada’s employment increased by 5.1% (+935,900). Employment in Ontario in the third quarter of 2021 was 0.3% higher than in the same quarter in 2019, prior to the COVID‑19 pandemic.
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Feb 28, 2024 · On a monthly basis, Ontario’s labour market softened in the second half of 2023 with 32,800 jobs lost during July to December. The unemployment rate rose from a low of 5.1 per cent in April to 6.3 per cent in December.
Employment decreased by 27,400 (-0.4%) in Ontario in July 2022, with all loses occurring in full-time em-ployment (-57,600; -0.9%). The unemployment rate increased by 0.2 percentage points to 5.3%, while the unemployment rate for Ontario’s youth aged 15 to 24 increased to 10.7%.
