The unemployment rate in Tallahatchie County fell from 5.5% in September to 5.1% in October, the Mississippi Department of Employment Security reported.
The MDES, which compiles the state’s employment data, noted that 270 members of the county’s 5,260-person labor force were unemployed in October.
Revised September figures show 290 of 5,350 Tallahatchie County labor force members were jobless.
The county’s October jobless rate was six-tenths of 1 percent higher than the 4.5% figure recorded in October 2018.
October unemployment rates for selected area counties, with September figures in parenthesis, are:
» Coahoma, 6.8 (7.3)
» Grenada, 4.9 (5.4)
» Lafayette, 4.0 (4.5)
» Leflore, 7.0 (7.5)
» Panola, 6.0 (6.4)
» Quitman, 7.7 (8.1)
» Sunflower, 8.3 (8.8)
» Yalobusha, 4.9 (5.5)
Jefferson County had the state’s highest jobless rate of 13.8% in October. Lamar and Rankin tied for the best, 3.8%.
