The unemployment rate in Tallahatchie County fell from 6.4 percent in February to 5.5 percent in March, the Mississippi Department of Employment Security has reported.
The MDES, which compiles the state’s employment data, noted that 290 members of the county’s 5,340-person labor force were unemployed in March. The labor force consists of everyone who has a job or is actively looking for a job.
In February, 340 of 5,230 Tallahatchie County labor force members were jobless.
The county’s March jobless rate was one-tenth of 1 percent higher than the 5.4 percent figure recorded in March 2018, when 300 of 5,580 available laborers age 16 and older did not find work.
Mississippi’s unemployment rate remained unchanged from February to March, at 4.8 percent.
For the state, the March rate is two-tenths of a percentage point higher than a year ago in March 2018, when joblessness was at 4.6 percent.
The March unemployment rates for selected area counties, with February figures in parenthesis, are:
» Coahoma, 7.4 (7.7)
» Grenada, 4.4 (4.5)
» Lafayette, 3.7 (3.6)
» Leflore, 7.0 (7.2)
» Panola, 6.0 (5.7)
» Quitman, 7.4 (7.9)
» Sunflower, 8.0 (8.8)
» Yalobusha, 5.1 (5.0)
Jefferson County had the state’s highest jobless rate of 13.4 percent in March. Rankin’s 3.5 was the lowest.
