DeKalb Jobless Rate for December at 6.1%

DeKalb County’s unemployment rate for December, 2014 was 6.1%, up from 6% in November but still below the 7% rate for December 2013.
The local labor force was 8,970. A total of 8,420 were employed and 550 were without work.
DeKalb County’s Jobless Rate for December was fifth lowest in the fourteen county Upper Cumberland region.
Here’s how they rank from highest to lowest:
Pickett: 12.5%
Van Buren: 9.5%
Clay: 9.3%
Cumberland:8.7%
White: 7.8%
Jackson:7.4%
Fentress: 7.1%
Overton:6.7%
Warren:6.5%
DeKalb: 6.1%
Putnam: 5.9%
Cannon:5.6%
Macon:5.1%
Smith:5.1%
County unemployment rates for December 2014 show the rate decreased in 20 counties, increased in 64 counties, and remained the same in 11 counties.
Knox County had the state’s lowest major metropolitan rate in December at 5.0 percent, down from 5.1 percent in November. Davidson County was 5.1 percent in December, down from 5.2 the previous month. The Hamilton County December rate was 6.4 percent, unchanged from November. Shelby County was 8.1 percent in December, also unchanged from the previous month. Tennessee’s preliminary unemployment rate for December was 6.6 percent, two-tenths of one percentage point lower than the November revised rate of 6.8 percent. The U.S. preliminary rate for December was 5.6 percent, also falling two-tenths of one percentage point from the prior month.
The state and national unemployment rates are seasonally adjusted while the county unemployment rates are not. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique that eliminates the influences of weather, holidays, the opening and closing of schools, and other recurring seasonal events from economic time series.