Charlotte NC Real Estate is affected by Unemployment RatesUnemployment ratesimprove in Mecklenburg County in North Carolina. Mecklenburg County’s unemployment rate has improved for the month of August 2011. Theunemploymentrate for August is 11 % where July was 11.1 %.Here are some of the surrounding counties unemployment rates, the first rate is for August, followed by July:

AlexanderCounty: 11.2 percent, down from 11.3 percent.

AnsonCounty: 12.5 percent, unchanged.

CabarrusCounty: 10.3 percent, down from 10.4 percent.

CatawbaCounty: 12.3 percent, up from 12.1 percent.

ClevelandCounty: 11.9 percent, unchanged.

GastonCounty: 11.3 percent, down from 11.6 percent.

IredellCounty: 11.1 percent, up from 11 percent.

LincolnCounty: 11.6 percent, unchanged.

MecklenburgCounty: 11.0 percent, down from 11.1 percent.

RowanCounty: 11.7 percent, down from 11.8 percent.

StanlyCounty: 11.5 percent, unchanged.

UnionCounty: 9.4 percent, down from 9.5 percent.

 

Here are the rates for S.C. counties:

Chester County: 16.9 percent, down from 17.1 percent.

ChesterfieldCounty: 14.1 percent, up from 14 percent.

LancasterCounty: 15.2 percent, down from 15.3 percent.

YorkCounty: 13.3 percent, up from 13 percent.