During the month of July, the municipality of Puerto Lumbreras registered the lowest unemployment data since January 2009, with a total of 626 unemployed persons compared to the 823 registered in that year.
This is a data collected in the report of the Occupational Observatory of the Regional Employment Service, the SEF, and that the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, M ª Angeles Tunis, has described as "excellent" since it also means the consecutive decline of this figure during the last eight months.
Thus, the local unemployment rate in July 2018 stood at 5.95%, below the regional and national average, since the number of unemployed in Puerto Lumbreras fell by 4.42% during the last month, with a total of 29 more people who have started some professional activity, and 10.57% with respect to July of the previous year.
The age distribution of these data is reflected in the group of under-25s with 59 people, of 269 in the age group between 25 and 44 years, and of 309 the group over 45 years of age enrolled in unemployment, being in In general, the male collective is the one that most easily changes his passive to active labor status.
"This is very good news for our town", says Tunisia, "since it is the result of the great efforts we are making from this government team to general employment in the town from different training actions and the promotion of employability "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras