The city's unemployment rate dropped to 4.6 per cent in August from 5.7 per cent the month before as the number of people holding down jobs climbed by 1,100 to 52,300, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers released Friday.
It marked the sixth straight month that the total employed in Prince George stayed above the 50,000 mark, matching a stretch that ended in December 2012 and peaked in September 2012 at 52,500, the highest in the city's history.
Coinciding with the decline in the unemployment rate, the number of people seeking work fell by 600 to 2,500. Those of working age not seeking a job also dropped by 600 to 15,900.
The figures also compared favourably to August 2013, when the unemployment rate was 5.6 per cent, with 48,800 working, 2,900 seeking work and 18,900 people of working age not participating in the workforce.
The figures are based on a three-month rolling average and do not say how many are working full-time and part-time.
