While Anderson County’s unemployment rate is now approaching its pre-COVID 19 levels, Kansas, as a whole, is still struggling with fewer employed members of the workforce than it had before the virus erupted in the early Spring of this year. Employment data collected from October, shows Anderson County’s jobless rate at 3.5%, barely above its February 2020 rate of 3.4% and improved from the September 2020 rate of 4.1%. Allen County stood at 4.5% in October, down from 5%; Franklin County marked 4.5%, down from 5.2% in September; Coffee County was down to 3.7% from 4.6% and Linn County improved to 5.3% in October from 6.9% the prior month. Kansas stood at 5.3%, down from 5.9% in September 2020, but still trailing pre-COVID percent of 3.1
