Toowoomba Region Mayor Paul Antonio has welcomed further falls in the Region's unemployment figures that rank as the lowest in Queensland, in addition to a youth unemployment rate that has dropped below 10%.
Mayor Antonio said the release of the April 2021 unemployment data by the Queensland Government Statistician's Office highlighted that the Region's unemployment figures continued to head in the right direction.
Mayor Antonio said the Toowoomba statistical area's April unemployment rate of 4.4%, down from 5% in March, was the lowest of the 19 areas across Queensland. It compares with Toowoomba's most recent unemployment figures of 5.4% in February and 5.8% in January 2021.
The Toowoomba unemployment figure has fallen by 1.5 percentage points over the past year.
The average Queensland unemployment rate was 6.1% for April 2021.
