September unemployment in Tallahatchie Coiunty fell to 7.5%, a decrease of six-tenths of one percent from the revised August figure of 8.1%, the Mississippi Department of Employment Security said Tuesday.
The 7.5% was the county’s highest unemployment rate for September since 2013, when local joblessness stood at 9.9%.
The MDES, which compiles the state’s employment data, noted that 370 members of the county’s 4,970-person labor force were jobless in September.
The labor force consists of everyone who has a job or is actively looking. In August, 390 of 4,820 labor force members were jobless.
The county’s September unemployment rate was 2.8% higher than the 5.3% figure recorded in September 2019, when 270 of 5,180 available laborers 16 and older did not find work.
The Mississippi unemployment rate stood at 6.8% in September, a drop of 1.1% from the 7.9% of August but an increase of 1.5% from 5.3% in September 2019.
Nationally, joblessness dipped from 8.4% in August to 7.9% in September. One year ago, only 3.5% of laborers were unemployed in this country.
September jobless rates for area counties, with August figures in parenthesis, are:
» Coahoma, 11.8 (12.4)
» Grenada, 6.4 (7.1)
» Lafayette, 4.6 (5.8)
» Leflore, 10.1 (11.1)
» Panola, 9.3 (10.4)
» Quitman, 11.0 (12.8)
» Sunflower, 10.9 (11.6)
» Yalobusha, 6.5 (7.5)
For more information, view complete labor market data here.
