Lower Bucks Today

There were 82 business licenses issued in Bucks County in the week ending April 30, 2022 in Pennsylvania, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.

This is a 1.2 percent increase over the previous week when there were 81 licenses issued.

Pennsylvania suffered a surge of unemployment and business closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The average annual unemployment rate in the state more than doubled in 2020 to 9.1 percent. This was the highest annual unemployment rate in Pennsylvania since 2003.

County	Issued in week ending April 30, 2022	Issued in week ending April 23, 2022	Percentage change (%)
Adams	8	10	-20%
Allegheny	160	176	-9.1%
Armstrong	8	4	100%
Beaver	18	15	20%
Berks	28	30	-6.7%
Blair	10	8	25%
Bradford	2	5	-60%
Bucks	82	81	1.2%
Butler	9	4	125%
Cambria	4	13	-69.2%
Carbon	4	9	-55.6%
Centre	27	16	68.8%
Chester	66	76	-13.2%
Clearfield	2	3	-33.3%
Clinton	5	2	150%
Columbia	8	6	33.3%
Crawford	3	1	200%
Cumberland	33	33	0%
Dauphin	45	44	2.3%
Delaware	60	55	9.1%
Elk	1	1	0%
Erie	32	39	-17.9%
Fayette	7	6	16.7%
Franklin	26	20	30%
Fulton	1	2	-50%
Greene	2	0	-
Huntingdon	2	0	-
Indiana	2	1	100%
Jefferson	6	3	100%
Juniata	2	1	100%
Lackawanna	22	17	29.4%
Lancaster	41	46	-10.9%
Lawrence	11	12	-8.3%
Lebanon	2	4	-50%
Lehigh	60	65	-7.7%
Luzerne	25	23	8.7%
Lycoming	12	8	50%
Mercer	8	9	-11.1%
Mifflin	2	4	-50%
Monroe	19	20	-5%
Montgomery	110	106	3.8%
Montour	2	2	0%
Northampton	23	25	-8%
Northumberland	2	8	-75%
Perry	3	4	-25%
Philadelphia	362	342	5.8%
Potter	2	1	100%
Schuylkill	15	13	15.4%
Snyder	3	2	50%
Somerset	3	1	200%
Sullivan	1	0	-
Susquehanna	2	4	-50%
Tioga	3	3	0%
Union	2	4	-50%
Venango	3	2	50%
Warren	3	1	200%
Washington	11	22	-50%
Wayne	3	2	50%
Westmoreland	24	22	9.1%
Wyoming	1	0	-
York	54	47	14.9%