March unemployment rose to 4.0% in Tallahatchie County, an increase of five-tenths of 1% from the revised February figure of 3.5%, the Mississippi Department of Employment Security has announced.
The MDES, which compiles the state’s employment data, noted that 180 members of the county’s 4,550-person labor force were unemployed in March. The labor force consists of everyone who has a job or is actively looking for one.
In February, 160 of 4,490 labor force members were jobless.
The county’s March unemployment rate was two-tenths of 1% higher than the 3.8% figure recorded in March 2022, when 180 of the 4,710 available laborers age 16 and older did not find work.
The Mississippi unemployment rate stood at 3.1% in March, an improvement of one-tenth of 1% from February’s 3.2%. The state’s March jobless rate is four-tenths of 1% lower than the 3.5% figure recorded in March 2022.
Nationally, the unemployment rate improved from 3.9% in February to 3.6% in March. The March 2022 figure was 3.8%.
March unemployment rates for selected area counties, with February rates in parenthesis, are:
» Coahoma, 4.6 (4.9)
» Grenada, 4.8 (3.3)
» Lafayette, 2.5 (2.7)
» Leflore, 4.8 (4.8)
» Panola, 3.8 (3.8)
» Quitman, 4.5 (4.8)
» Sunflower, 4.8 (5.0)
» Tallahatchie, 4.0 (3.5)
» Yalobusha, 4.1 (3.5)
Jefferson County had the state’s highest jobless rate of 8.4% in March. Meanwhile, Union County, at 2.2%, had the lowest unemployment rate in the Magnolia State.
