May unemployment in Tallahatchie County held steady, unchanged at 4.0% from April, the Mississippi Department of Employment Security announced on Tuesday.
The MDES, which compiles the state’s employment data, noted that 180 members of the county’s 4,410-person labor force were jobless in May.
The labor force consists of everyone who has a job or is actively looking.
In April, 180 of 4,520 labor force members were jobless, MDES noted.
The county’s May unemployment rate was a full 1% higher than the 3.0% figure recorded in May 2024, when 140 of 4,640 available laborers 16 and older did not find work.
The Mississippi unemployment rate stood at 3.8% in May, up three-tenths of 1% from the 3.5% revised April figure and nine-tenths higher than the 2.9% of May 2024.
May jobless rates for area counties, with April figures in parenthesis, are:
» Coahoma, 7.1 7.0)
» Grenada, 4.1 (3.8)
» Lafayette, 2.9 (2.5)
» Leflore, 6.4 (6.1)
» Panola, 4.7 (4.4)
» Quitman, 4.3 (5.3)
» Sunflower, 4.7 (4.8)
» Yalobusha, 3.6 (3.3)
Jefferson County had the state’s highest jobless rate of 10.6% and Rankin the lowest of 2.7%.
