The city's unemployment rate stood at 9.5 per cent in October, according to a Statistics Canada estimate released on Friday.
That's well up from 5.9 per cent for the same month last year but down from 9.9 per cent recorded in September as the number of people holding down jobs grew by 500 to 48,700 while those seeking work declined by 200 to 5,100.
The number of people of working age rose by 500 to 48,700 according to the survey.
In October 2019, 49,100 people were working and 3,100 were seeking work.
With the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic this past spring, unemployment has risen significantly in the city.
The numbers come from Statcan's monthly labor market survey and are based on a three-month rolling average.
Accuracy of the unemployment rates are plus-or-minus 1.4 percentage points, for October and September 2020 and plus-or-minus 0.9 percentage points for October 2019, all 68 per cent of the time.
