At the end of May registered unemployment stood at 890, an unemployment rate of 2%.

During the month 138 people signed on and 234 signed off the unemployment register, a fall of 96 in the total. Of this total, 614 are males and 276 are females.

668 vacancies were notified to the Job Centre during the month and at the end of the month 324 positions were still vacant and held on file.