It's been this way for a couple years or more. If not the highest, then it's second.
Jun 23, 2009 13abc WTVG story :
Fast-growing Delaware County [tremendous sprawl] north of Columbus had last month's lowest unemployment rate, at 6.7 percent.
Officials said last Friday that the state's unemployment rate rose to 10.8 percent in May, the highest since October 1983.
Toledo had the highest rate among the state's largest cities last month, with unemployment of 14.3 percent. Cleveland Heights was at the other end of the scale, at 7.2 percent.May 2009 Unemployment Rate
By county:
Adams 13.8
Allen 11.4
Ashland 12.1
Ashtabula 13.3
Athens 8.2
Auglaize 11.2
Belmont 8.3
Brown 13.0
Butler 9.7
Carroll 13.8
Champaign 11.5
Clark 10.2
Clermont 9.6
Clinton 13.3
Columbiana 13.3
Coshocton 13.4
Crawford 15.8
Cuyahoga 10.1
Darke 11.3
Defiance 16.1
Delaware 6.7
Erie 10.6
Fairfield 8.1
Fayette 10.3
Franklin 8.1
Fulton 13.6
Gallia 9.0
Geauga 8.0
Greene 9.5
Guernsey 11.5
Hamilton 8.7
Hancock 10.2
Hardin 12.1
Harrison 11.0
Henry 14.2
Highland 14.8
Hocking 10.7
Holmes 7.5
Huron 15.4
Jackson 11.1
Jefferson 12.2
Knox 9.1
Lake 9.5
Lawrence 7.7
Licking 9.4
Logan 11.3
Lorain 11.4
Lucas 13.4
Madison 9.0
Mahoning 12.2
Marion 10.3
Medina 9.3
Meigs 14.1
Mercer 9.0
Miami 12.1
Monroe 11.3
Montgomery 11.4
Morgan 14.8
Morrow 10.7
Muskingum 11.8
Noble 12.8
Ottawa 12.8
Paulding 14.1
Perry 13.6
Pickaway 10.9
Pike 14.6
Portage 10.0
Preble 12.3
Putnam 10.5
Richland 13.1
Ross 11.9
Sandusky 11.8
Scioto 11.5
Seneca 12.7
Shelby 13.1
Stark 11.1
Summit 9.7
Trumbull 14.3
Tuscarawas 10.9
Union 8.2
Van Wert 15.2
Vinton 13.0
Warren 8.9
Washington 9.1
Wayne 10.0
Williams 17.1
Wood 12.0
Wyandot 13.1
By city:
Hamilton 11.2
Springfield 10.8
Cleveland 12.2
Cleveland Hts. 7.2
Euclid 10.9
Lakewood 8.5
Parma 10.7
Columbus 8.2
Cincinnati 8.8
Mentor 8.3
Elyria 11.9
Lorain 13.1
Toledo 14.3
Youngstown 13.7
Dayton 12.6
Kettering 9.6
Mansfield 12.7
Canton 12.0
Akron 10.5
Cuyahoga Falls 9.0