At the end of February registered unemployment stood at 1146, an unemployment rate of 2.6%.

During the month 249 people signed on and 285 signed off the unemployment register, a fall of 36 in the total. Of this total, 813 are males and 333 are females.

570 vacancies were notified to the Job Centre during the month and at the end of the month 364 positions were still vacant and held on file.