San Diego County unemployment rate down from last year

SAN DIEGO - The unemployment rate in San Diego County last month was 8.6 percent, down from a revised 8.5 percent the previous month and 9.8 percent in the same period a year ago, the state Employment Development Department reported today.

Statewide, the unemployment rate in October was 9.8 percent; and nationally, the jobless rate was 7.5 percent. The numbers are not seasonally adjusted.

In San Diego County, 137,000 people were unemployed last month out of a total job force of more than 1.6 million, up about 1.3 percent from September's revised figures, but down 11.8 percent from the same per...