Unemployment in Tallahatchie County inched upward in September to 5.5%, an increase of one-tenth of a percent from the August rate of 5.4%.
The Mississippi Department of Employment Security’s monthly report, released Tuesday, showed that 290 members of the county’s 5,350-person labor force were unemployed in September.
In August, 290 of 5,380 labor force folk were jobless.
The labor force consists of everyone who has a job or is actively looking for one.
The September rate was 1.3% higher than the 4.2% figure of September 2018, when 230 of 5,340 labor force members were unemployed.
September unemployment rates for area counties, with August figures in parenthesis, are:
» Coahoma, 7.3 (8.0)
» Grenada, 5.4 (5.1)
» Leflore, 7.4 (7.7)
» Panola, 6.4 (6.5)
» Quitman, 8.1 (8.2)
» Sunflower, 8.8 (9.2)
» Yalobusha, 5.5 (6.3)
Jefferson County recorded Mississippi’s highest September jobless rate of 15.7 percent. Rankin’s 4.1 percent was best in the Magnolia State.
