The unemployment rate in Tallahatchie County fell from 5.4 percent in March to 4.7 percent in April, the Mississippi Department of Employment Security has reported.
The MDES, which compiles the state’s employment data, noted that 250 members of the county’s 5,370-person labor force were unemployed in April. The labor force consists of everyone who has a job or is actively looking for a job.
Revised March figures show 290 of 5,340 Tallahatchie County labor force members were jobless during that month.
The county’s April jobless rate was two-tenths of 1 percent higher than the 4.5 percent figure recorded in April 2018, when 250 of 5,460 available laborers age 16 and older did not find work.
Statewide, the unemployment rate fell from 4.8 percent in March to 4.6 percent in April. Nationally, joblessness improved from 3.9 percent to 3.3 percent over the same period.
The April unemployment rates for selected area counties, with March figures in parenthesis, are:
» Carroll, 5.3 (5.4)
» Coahoma, 6.0 (7.3)
» Grenada, 4.2 (4.4)
» Lafayette, 3.9 (3.6)
» Leflore, 6.3 (7.0)
» Panola, 5.7 (5.9)
» Quitman, 6.6 (7.4)
» Sunflower, 7.0 (8.0)
» Yalobusha, 5.0 (5.1)
Jefferson County had the state’s highest jobless rate of 10.9 percent in April. Rankin County enjoyed the lowest rate of 3.4 percent.
