DeKalb Jobless Rate Climbs to 4.1% in September

DeKalb County’s Unemployment Rate for September climbed to 4.1%, up from the August rate of 3.7%, but it was still below the rate for September 2006 of 4.9%
The DeKalb County Labor Force in September was 10,330. A total of 9,910 were employed and 420 were unemployed.
Meanwhile, Tennessee’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for September increased from the August rate of 4.0 percent to 4.7 percent, an increase of 0.7 percent. The United States rate was also 4.7 percent for September, an increase of 0.1 percent from August.
County non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for September show that nine counties remained unchanged. There were 82 counties that increased and four counties decreased.
Knox County registered the state’s lowest county unemployment rate at 3.2 percent. Lincoln County followed at 3.3. Maury County had the state’s highest at 9.4 percent, followed by Marshall County at 8.4 percent.
Knoxville had the state’s lowest major metropolitan statistical area (MSA) rate at 3.4 percent. The Nashville-Murfreesboro MSA was 3.7 percent. The Chattanooga MSA was 3.9 percent and the Memphis MSA was 4.9 percent, up from 4.6 percent.