2025 proved an unfavorable year for Lane County’s employment market, according to the latest report from the Oregon Employment Department.
The county shed 200 jobs from December 2024 to December 2025 while adding 885 people to its labor force. The result was an increase in the unemployment rate from 4.3% to 5.2%.
“That’s a very slow decline [in jobs], but a decline nonetheless,” said OED Regional Labor Economist Brian Rooney…