Unemployment in Tallahatchie County rose to 10.0 percent in January but still was the lowest rate on record for the month since 2008, said the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
The January 2016 rate was 1.1 percent higher than the December figure of 8.9 percent but is eight-tenths of 1 percent lower than January 2015’s 10.8 percent. In January 2008, local unemployment stood at 9.9 percent.
The MDES, which compiles the state’s employment data, noted that 590 members of the county’s 5,930-person labor force were not employed during the month of January.
In December, 550 of 6,220 labor force folk were jobless.
In January 2015, 610 of 5,630 were unemployed.
January unemployment rates for area counties are:
- Coahoma, 12.2 percent
- Grenada, 6.5 percent
- Leflore, 12.6 percent
- Panola, 9.2 percent
- Quitman, 12.5 percent
- Sunflower, 12.9 percent
- Yalobusha, 7.9 percent
Issaquena County recorded Mississippi’s highest January jobless rate of 22.4 percent. Rankin’s 4.7 percent was the lowest in the Magnolia State.
