Unemployment in Tallahatchie County rose to 5.5% in November, the Mississippi Department of Employment Security revealed last week.
The county’s November unemployment rate was up three-tenths of 1% from October’s 5.2%, MDES said.
The state’s employment agency noted that 290 members of the county’s 5,230-person labor force were unemployed in November. In October, 270 of 5,250 had been jobless. The labor force consists of everyone who has a job or is actively looking for one.
Tallahatchie’s November unemployment rate is 1% higher than the 4.5% recorded in November 2018, when 240 of 5,310 labor force members were jobless.
November jobless rates for area counties, with October figures in parenthesis, are:
» Coahoma, 7.1 (6.9)
» Grenada, 5.0 (4.9)
» Leflore, 7.3 (7.0)
» Panola, 6.4 (6.0)
» Quitman, 8.1 (7.7)
» Sunflower, 9.7 (8.4)
» Yalobusha, 5.2 (4.9)
Jefferson County’s 15.6% was the state’s highest jobless rate. At 4.0%, Lamar and Rankin tied for the lowest.
