DeKalb Jobless Rate Drops to 5.4% in February

The DeKalb County unemployment rate for February was 5.4%, down from 5.9% in January and 7.4% in February 2015.
The local labor force for February was 7,450. A total of 7,050 were employed and 400 were without work.
Jobless rates for February among the fourteen counties in the Upper Cumberland region were as follows from highest to lowest:
Pickett:7.3%
Clay: 7%
Jackson: 6.9%
Van Buren: 6.7%
Fentress: 6.4%
Cumberland: 6.3%
Overton: 5.6%
DeKalb: 5.4%
Smith: 4.7%
White: 4.6%
Putnam: 4.5%
Cannon: 4.3%
Warren: 4.3%
Macon:4.1%
County unemployment rates for February show they decreased in 93 counties, increased in one, and remained the same in one county.
For the month of February, Davidson County had the state’s lowest major metropolitan rate at 3.3 percent, down from January’s rate of 3.5 percent. Knox County was 3.6 percent in February, down from 3.9 the previous month. The Hamilton County rate was 4.2 percent, down from 4.6 in January. Shelby County was 4.9 percent, down from 5.4 percent the previous month
Tennessee’s preliminary unemployment rate for February was 4.9 percent, down five tenths of a percentage point from the previous month’s revised rate. The U.S. preliminary rate for February was also 4.9 percent, unchanged from 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.