San Marcos’s unemployment rate rose to 6.2% in January 2021 up from 5.3% in December and 2.9% in February of 2020, just before the pandemic.
Hays County’s unemployment rate rose from 4.9% in December to 5.5% in January as pandemic shutdowns continued; the impact of reopening Texas following Gov. Greg Abbott’s most recent executive order opening businesses to 100% capacity and ending the state's mask mandate is still unknown as the latest unemployment data is only available through January from Texas Labor Information.
“I would attribute the January increase to the annual seasonal increase we see every January and that we expect the downward trend in unemployment to continue when we see the February numbers,” Texas Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area CEO Paul Fletcher said.
