Unemployment in Tallahatchie County fell from 5.1% in February to stand at 3.9% in March, according to estimates released on Tuesday, April 19, by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
In March, 190 Tallahatchians were unemployed, and 4,600 employed, from a local labor force totaling 4,790. The labor force consists of everyone who has a job or is actively looking for one.
In February, 240 local residents had been jobless, while 4,490 were working, among a labor force of 4,730, according to MDES.
Tallahatchie County’s March unemployment rate was 2.9% lower than the 6.8% jobless rate of March 2021, when 340 local residents were unemployed and 4,590 employed, among a labor force tallying 4,930.
The national rate of unemployment during March was 3.8%, down three-tenths of a percent from February’s 4.1%, and 2.4% lower than March 2021’s 6.2%.
Mississippi’s jobless rate stood at 3.5% in March, a drop of nine-tenths of 1% from February’s 4.4% and a significant improvement of 2.9% over the 6.4% rate one year ago.
March unemployment rates for area counties, with February figures in parenthesis, are:
» Coahoma, 5.3 (6.6)
» Grenada, 3.1 (4.0)
» Lafayette, 2.6 (3.3)
» Leflore, 4.9 (6.0)
» Panola, 4.5 (5.6)
» Quitman, 4.9 (6.4)
» Sunflower, 5.5 (6.9)
» Yalobusha, 3.4 (4.4)
At 11.2%, Jefferson County had the highest unemployment rate in the state. Both Rankin and Union counties posted the lowest rate of 2.5%.
