DeKalb County’s unemployment rate for March was 7.2%, down from 7.7% in February and below 8.2% recorded in March, 2014.
The local labor force for March, 2015 was 7,130. A total of 6,610 were employed and 520 were without work.
DeKalb County’s Jobless Rate for March was seventh lowest in the fourteen county Upper Cumberland region.
Here’s how they rank from highest to lowest:
Clay: 10.6%
Jackson:9.3%
Van Buren: 8.9%
Overton:8.9%
Pickett: 8.6%
Fentress:8.3%
Cumberland:7.9%
DeKalb: 7.2%
White: 6.8%
Smith:6.5%
Cannon:6.4%
Warren:6.2%
Putnam: 6%
Macon:5.5%
County unemployment rates for March 2015 show the rates decreased in 88 counties, increased in five counties, and remained the same in two counties.
Davidson County had the state’s lowest major metropolitan rate in March at 4.4 percent, down from 4.8 percent in February. Knox County was 4.7 percent in March, down from 5.1 the previous month. The Hamilton County March rate was 5.4 percent, down from 5.9 in February. Shelby County was 6.7 percent in March, down from 7.2 percent the previous month.
Tennessee’s preliminary unemployment rate for March was 6.3 percent, three-tenths of one percentage point lower than the February revised rate of 6.6 percent. The U.S. preliminary rate for March was 5.5 percent, unchanged from the prior 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.
Archived News & Obituaries