California Unemployment Rates By County - November 2009

As of November 2009, the unemployment rate in California was 2.3% above the national unemployment rate:

Imperial and Colusa counties have the highest unemployment rates in California at 29.2% and 22.6%, respectively.

Click here for list of unemployment rates by California county

California's unemployment rate started rising before the national average at the beginning of the recession in late 2007, so one should expect it to start falling in advance of the national average when the job market does finally start to recover. So far, that is not the case.

Stay tuned............