About 500 more people were in the local workforce in November, compared to a year ago.

Stats Canada says employment was up 1.5 per cent, year over year to 53.8 per cent last month.

Unemployment, meantime, was at 5.1 per cent.

That’s a drop of 1.4 per cent from November last year.

The standard error is 1.2.

The City of North Bay, Bonfield, Callander and East Ferris are included in the figures.