DeKalb Unemployment Rate Down Slightly to 11% in March

DeKalb County’s unemployment rate dropped to 11% in March, down slightly from 11.2% in February. The rate for March, 2009 was 11.4%
The local labor force for March was 9,650. A total of 8,590 were employed and 1,060 were without work.
DeKalb County’s jobless rate for March was the third lowest in the fourteen county Upper Cumberland region. Upper Cumberland counties and their unemployment rates are as follows from highest to lowest:
Pickett County- 18.2%
Van Buren- 14.5%
Clay- 14.2%
Smith- 13.9%
White- 13.8%
Jackson-13.2%
Fentress- 12.9%
Overton-12.6%
Cumberland- 12.2%
Warren-12.2%
Macon-11.5%
DeKalb-11%
Putnam- 10.2%
Cannon-10.1%
Meanwhile, Tennessee’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for March was 10.6 percent, down from the February rate of 10.7 percent. The United States unemployment rate for the month of March was 9.7 percent.
County non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for March show that the rate decreased in 85 counties, increased in seven counties and remained the same in three counties.
Lincoln County registered the state’s lowest county unemployment rate at 7.4 percent, down from 8.0 percent in February. Scott County had the state’s highest unemployment rate at 19.8 percent, up from 18.4 in February, followed by Marshall County at 18.4 percent, down from 19.0 percent in February.
Knox County had the state’s lowest major metropolitan rate of 8.2 percent, down from 8.4 percent in February. Davidson County was 9.1 percent, down from 9.2 in February. Hamilton County was at 9.4 percent, down from 9.6 in February, and Shelby County was 10.6 percent, down from 10.7 in February.