About 1,800 Georgetown residents filed unemployment claims between April 8-May 9, according to a Texas Workforce Commission unemployment claim dashboard.

Within that time exactly 1,789 residents of Georgetown’s three zip codes—78626, 78628 and 78633—have filed unemployment claims, data shows.

The total from this one-month snapshot is down 627 claims compared to the TWC’s April 1-May 1 snapshot, when Georgetown had 2,416 claims. The number is also down from TWC’s March 16-April 16 report, when Georgetown had 3,113 claims, the highest number of claims within a month since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Here is a breakdown of unemployment claims in Georgetown’s three ZIP codes as well as a combination of that data to represent the city. The mapping was developed by the TWC Labor Market and Career Information Department.

78626
  • Population: 34,832
  • Claims: 844
  • Male: 370
  • Female: 474
78628
  • Population: 32,341
  • Claims: 631
  • Male: 273
  • Female: 358
78633
  • Population: 28,080
  • Claims: 314
  • Male: 163
  • Female: 151
Georgetown (three zip codes combined)
  • Population: 95,253
  • Claims: 1,789
  • Male: 806
  • Female: 983
Williamson County
  • Population: 571,610
  • Claims: 13,582
  • Male: 6,177
  • Female: 7,388
  • Gender unknown: 17