DeKalb Jobless Rate Dips to 5.8% in August

DeKalb County’s Jobless Rate for August was 5.8%, down from 5.9% in July but well below the rate of 6.7% in August, 2015.
The local labor force for August was 7,700. A total of 7,250 were employed and 450 were without work.
Jobless rates for August among the fourteen counties in the Upper Cumberland region were as follows from highest to lowest:
Jackson:7.4%
Clay: 6.4%
Fentress: 6%
Cumberland:5.9%
Van Buren: 5.8%
Pickett:5.8%
DeKalb: 5.8%
Overton: 5.6%
White:5.4%
Putnam: 5.3%
Cannon:4.9%
Warren: 4.8%
Smith: 4.6%
Macon:4.5%
County unemployment rates for August 2016 show the rates decreased in 26 counties, increased in 58, and remained the same in 11 counties.
For the month of August, Davidson County had the state’s lowest major metropolitan rate at 3.8 percent, increasing from 3.6 percent the previous month. Knox County was 4.3 percent in August, increasing from 4.2 percent the previous month. The Hamilton County rate was 5.0 percent, increasing from 4.9 the previous month. Shelby County was 5.7 percent, up from 5.6 percent the previous 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.