Unemployment Insurance Wichita KansasThere was an average of 14,164 unemployed people in the Wichita metropolitan area in the third quarter of 2017, approximately 55 percent of whom collected unemployment insurance benefits. In the third quarter of 2017, there were approximately 7,778 people, age 16 and over, who collected unemployment insurance benefits. That is a 37 percent increase from the second quarter of 2017.

In the third quarter of 2017, four industries accounted for 60 percent of unemployment insurance beneficiaries in the Wichita area; manufacturing, administrative and support and waste management and remediation services, construction, and health care.

Read the full Wichita unemployment insurance beneficiaries report.

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