At 3.1%, Tallahatchie County tied for the sixth-lowest rate of unemployment in the Magnolia State during May, according to a Mississippi Department of Employment Security monthly report.
The latest Labor Market Data Report, released Tuesday, showed 161 members of the county’s 5,245-person labor force were unemployed, and 5,084 employed, in May. The labor force consists of everyone age 16 and older who has a job or is actively looking.
In April, 146 of 5,251 Tallahatchie labor force members were jobless and unemployment stood at 2.8%.
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The county’s May jobless rate was six-tenths of 1% lower than the 3.7% figure in May 2025, when MDES said 174 of 4,650 available laborers did not find work.
May unemployment rates for select area counties, with April’s in parenthesis, are:
» Coahoma, 7.1 (6.6)
» Grenada, 3.9 (3.6)
» Lafayette, 2.8 (2.4)
» Leflore, 6.0 (5.7)
» Panola, 4.0 (3.9)
» Quitman, 4.3 (4.2)
» Sunflower, 4.8 (4.8)
» Yalobusha, 3.3 (2.8)
Issaquena (8.8%) and Rankin (2.5%) had the state’s highest and lowest rates of unemployment, respectively.
Among area counties, Coahoma and Leflore had the fourth- and sixth-highest jobless rates, respectively. Lafayette’s was third-lowest.
