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Williston is a city in and the county seat of Williams County, North Dakota, United States. [7] The 2020 census [4] gave its population as 29,160, making Williston the sixth-most populous city in North Dakota. The city's population nearly doubled between 2010 and 2020, due largely to the North Dakota oil boom.
The development of the region's Bakken formation has led to an oil boom economy and produced one of the lowest unemployment rates in the United States and renewed population growth in the state. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Oil and gas is now the state's largest contributor to the economy, replacing the agricultural sector.
As a result of the oil boom, North Dakota is the fastest-growing state, with the state's population growing at three times the rate of that of the nation as a whole over the past year. [10] In 2012, North Dakota also reported the lowest unemployment rate in the nation at 3.2 percent. [11]
It has a population of about 190,000 and an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent. ... Bismarck, in central North Dakota, has the nation's lowest unemployment rate (2.4 percent).
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought initial unemployment claims to 38.6 million in just nine weeks, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor — shattering historic highs ...
The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits dropped to a four-month low last week, suggesting that the labor market remained fairly healthy. The upbeat outlook on the ...
Unemployment rates historically are lower for those groups with higher levels of education. For example, in May 2016 the unemployment rate for workers over 25 years of age was 2.5% for college graduates, 5.1% for those with a high school diploma, and 7.1% for those without a high school diploma.
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