North Central PA Times

There were 99 business licenses issued in Luzerne County in February 2022 in Pennsylvania, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.

This is a 17.5 percent decrease from the previous month when there were 120 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 February 2022	Issued in January 2022	Percentage change (%)
Adams	36	61	-41%
Allegheny	681	886	-23.1%
Armstrong	19	24	-20.8%
Beaver	58	45	28.9%
Bedford	15	11	36.4%
Berks	111	161	-31.1%
Blair	49	48	2.1%
Bradford	16	15	6.7%
Bucks	351	395	-11.1%
Butler	43	51	-15.7%
Cambria	39	45	-13.3%
Carbon	24	36	-33.3%
Centre	75	79	-5.1%
Chester	292	373	-21.7%
Clarion	7	14	-50%
Clearfield	12	17	-29.4%
Clinton	16	20	-20%
Columbia	26	36	-27.8%
Crawford	34	33	3%
Cumberland	179	211	-15.2%
Dauphin	236	267	-11.6%
Delaware	253	324	-21.9%
Elk	10	11	-9.1%
Erie	126	171	-26.3%
Fayette	20	48	-58.3%
Franklin	92	78	17.9%
Fulton	3	10	-70%
Greene	12	11	9.1%
Hatfield Montgomery	1	0	-
Huntingdon	10	14	-28.6%
Indiana	11	19	-42.1%
Jefferson	14	31	-54.8%
Juniata	4	15	-73.3%
Lackawanna	84	120	-30%
Lancaster	157	245	-35.9%
Lawrence	31	36	-13.9%
Lebanon	31	22	40.9%
Lehigh	229	281	-18.5%
Luzerne	99	120	-17.5%
Lycoming	50	49	2%
Mckean	3	5	-40%
Mercer	27	36	-25%
Mifflin	21	22	-4.5%
Monroe	84	99	-15.2%
Montgomery	508	575	-11.7%
Montour	13	8	62.5%
Northampton	110	122	-9.8%
Northumberland	16	33	-51.5%
Perry	12	17	-29.4%
Philadelphia	1,557	1,836	-15.2%
Pike	10	17	-41.2%
Potter	4	9	-55.6%
Schuylkill	41	65	-36.9%
Snyder	12	21	-42.9%
Somerset	17	21	-19%
Sullivan	3	4	-25%
Susquehanna	13	8	62.5%
Tioga	26	7	271.4%
Union	19	24	-20.8%
Venango	7	14	-50%
Warren	4	4	0%
Washington	74	83	-10.8%
Wayne	26	21	23.8%
Westmoreland	152	162	-6.2%
Wyoming	10	4	150%
York	202	258	-21.7%