DeKalb County’s unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% in March, down from 8.5% in February and much lower than the rate of 9.5% in March, 2011.
The local labor force for March was 9,810. A total of 9,020 were employed and 790 were unemployed.
DeKalb County’s unemployment rate for March was the fifth lowest among the fourteen counties of the Upper Cumberland region as follows:
Pickett County- 13.9%
Van Buren- 11.3%
White- 10.6%
Clay- 10%
Jackson-9.7%
Cumberland-9.4%
Warren-9.1%
Fentress-9%
Overton-8.9%
DeKalb-8.1%
Macon-8%
Smith-7.6%
Cannon-7.4%
Putnam-7.2%
County non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for March 2012 show the rate decreased in 89 counties, increased in five counties, and remained the same in one county.
Tennessee’s unemployment rate for March fell to 7.9 percent, down from the February revised rate of 8.0 percent. The national unemployment rate for March 2012 was 8.2 percent, 0.1 percentage point lower than the February rate.
The state unemployment rate is 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.
Knox County had the state’s lowest major metropolitan rate of 5.7 percent, down from 6.1 percent in February. Davidson County was 6.6 percent, down from 7.0 percent in the previous month. Hamilton County was 7.4 percent, down from 7.6 percent, and Shelby County was 9.1 percent, down from the February unemployment rate of 9.2 percent.
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