DeKalb County’s unemployment rate for September was 6.1%, down from 6.9% in August and 7.8% in September 2013.
The local labor force for September was 9,090. A total of 8,540 were employed and 560 were without work.
DeKalb County’s Jobless Rate for September was fifth lowest in the fourteen county Upper Cumberland region.
Here’s how they rank from highest to lowest:
Pickett: 9.6%
Van Buren: 9.1%
White: 8%
Clay: 7.6%
Cumberland:7.5%
Fentress:7.2%
Overton:6.9%
Jackson: 6.8%
Warren:6.8%
DeKalb: 6.1%
Putnam.6%
Cannon:5.6%
Macon:5.4%
Smith:5.3%
County unemployment rates for September show the rate decreased in 94 counties and increased in one.
Knox County had the state’s lowest major metropolitan rate for September at 5.4 percent, down from 6.3 in August. Davidson County was 5.5 percent, down from 6.2 in August. The Hamilton County September rate was 6.6 percent, down from 7.4. Shelby County was 8.4 percent in September, down from 8.9.
The Tennessee preliminary unemployment rate for September was 7.3 percent, one tenth of one percentage point lower than the 7.4 August revised rate. The U.S. preliminary rate for September was 5.9 percent, down from 6.1 percent in August.
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.
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