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Placer County recorded an unemployment rate of 4.3% among residents aged 16 and 65 years old in 2021. That’s 8,303 people out of the 400,330 living in Placer County at the time, according to data obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The unemployment rate in Placer County has increased compared to the 4.1% registered in 2020.

The percentage of people unemployed in Placer County was less than the statewide unemployment rate of 6.5%.

Of the 186,812 people who had a job during that time, 993 were employed in the Armed Forces and 185,819 belonged to the civilian labor force.

Employment status	Number of people	Percentage of population
Unemployed	8,303	4.3%
Employed	186,812	95.7%
Employed in civilian labor force	185,819	95.2%
Employed in armed forces	993	0.5%