The DeKalb County unemployment rate for April was 10.7%, down slightly from 11% in March, but still much higher than the 5.1% rate in April, 2008.
The local labor force for April was 9,830. A total of 8,780 were employed and 1,050 were unemployed.
Meanwhile, Tennessee’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April at 9.9 percent is 0.3 percentage point higher than the revised March rate of 9.6 percent.
The United States’ unemployment rate for the month of April was 8.9 percent.
County non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for April show that the rate increased in 29 counties, decreased in 59 counties and remained the same in seven counties.
Lincoln and Williamson County registered the state’s lowest county unemployment rate at 6.3 percent. Perry County had the state’s highest unemployment rate at 23.9 percent, down from 25.6 in March, followed by Scott County at 18.3 percent, down from 18.8 percent in March.
Knox County had the state’s lowest major metropolitan rate of 7.4 percent, up 0.1 percentage point from the March rate. Davidson County was 8.0 percent, up 0.1 from the previous month. Hamilton County was at 8.3 percent, up 0.3 percentage point from the March rate, and Shelby County was 8.9 percent, unchanged from the March rate.
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