March unemployment in Tallahatchie County fell to 4.3%, a decrease of three-tenths of 1% from the revised February figure of 4.6%, the Mississippi Department of Employment Security revealed Tuesday.
The MDES, which compiles the state’s employment data, noted that 200 members of the county’s 4,610-person labor force were unemployed in March. The labor force consists of everyone who has a job or is actively looking for one.
In February, 210 of 4,570 labor force members were jobless.
The county’s March jobless rate was 1.8% higher than the 2.5% figure recorded in March 2024, when 120 of 4,820 available laborers 16 and older did not find work.
The Mississippi unemployment rate stood at 4.0% in March, a decrease of two-tenths of one-tenth of 1% from the 4.1% rate in February. Compared to the jobless figure of 2.5% in March 2024, the latest rate is 1.5% higher.
The March unemployment rates for selected area counties, with February figures in parenthesis, are:
» Coahoma, 7.3 (7.5)
» Grenada, 4.3 (4.7)
» Lafayette, 3.2 (3.3)
» Leflore, 6.2 (6.8)
» Panola, 5.1 (5.4)
» Quitman, 5.7 (6.0)
» Sunflower, 5.3 (5.5)
» Yalobusha, 3.8 (4.1)
Issaquena County had the state’s highest jobless rate of 11.6%. With 2.8%, Rankin County had the lowest rate in the state.
